Caroline Clerc is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography. Her work responds to natural environments in the production of large-format photographs and sculpture. Her work is first performed though an immersion in the natural environment in long walks. Images are then digitally composited into a single photograph. Problematizing the act of looking and disrupting the idea that it is possible to fully understand one’s relationship to the environment or to nature, her anxious images without stable perspectives evoke imminent collapse. They reflect a precarious relationship with environments under perpetual threat by the effects of climate change. Her work also incorporates sculptural forms: improvised installation with the landscape; or the incorporation of found materials into a final installation.

Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles, nationally, and internationally including Aleksanterin Linna, (Finland), Kunstbezirk Galerie (Germany), Caetani Cultural Centre (Canada), and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, among others. Her MFA is from University of California, Santa Barbara. Artist residencies include Obracadobra (Oaxaca, Mexico), Millay Colony for the Arts (New York), Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale (Norway), Nature, Art and Habitat (Taleggio Valley, Italy), Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Studies (Montana), Caetani Cultural Centre (Canada), NAIRS Foundation (Switzerland), Serlachius Residency (Finland), Prairie Ronde Residency (Michigan), and the Helene
Wurlitzer Artist Residency (New Mexico). Caroline Clerc is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of Southern California.