Carolina Fontana was born in 1991 in Montevideo, Uruguay. She lives and works in Punta del Este.

Carolina Fontana’s work explores the complex relationships between humans, technology, and their environment within a contemporary context shaped by hyperconnectivity. Her practice is grounded in a posthumanist approach, where the boundaries between the living, the digital, and the symbolic become increasingly porous. Through her painting, she questions how images contribute to the construction of our perceptions.

Her works are characterized by both a sensitive and conceptual dimension, blending abstraction with figurative evocations. She develops a form of visual poetry that creates tension between the intimate and the collective, the real and the virtual. The notion of memory, particularly digital memory, occupies a central place in her work, as do ideas of trace and the circulation of data.

Carolina Fontana holds a Master’s degree in Art and Visual Culture as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Arts from the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. She was a finalist for the “61st National Visual Arts Prize” (2024) as well as the Prix Paul Cézanne (2024 and 2022, with Special Mention).

Her work has been exhibited in several major institutions, including the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC), the SUBTE exhibition center, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry (MACA), the Iturria Foundation, and the Shenzhen Institute of Arts.

She has received several artist residency grants in Uruguay, China, Spain, and Brazil, including the China Arts Fellowship (UCLA / Shanghai Jiao Tong University). A grant from the Fundación Carolina notably enabled her to pursue a Master’s degree at the University of Girona within the UNESCO UNITWIN program.

She is currently the recipient of the 2025 Eduardo Víctor Haedo Grant (FEFCA, Ministry of Education and Culture), which will allow her to undertake an artist residency in Nara, Japan. She will also present a solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry (MACA) in Manantiales (2026/2027).