Caroline Voagen Nelson is a media artist working in animation, digital art, and installation. Her work has a collaged, atmospheric aesthetic that brings to life moments from history, mythology, and memory. She deconstructs and rebuilds archives and environments to create surreal recollections of the past in the moving image form.
Nelson holds an MFA in Digital Art with a focus in Animation at Pratt Institute and BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a 2021 NYFA Artist Fellow in Video/Film and has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA and MWPAI art museums. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Museum of the City of New York.
Her award-winning animated shorts have screened at film festivals around the world, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Animasivo el Festival in Mexico City, and Tricky Women at Film Archiv Austria. She has given several lectures and artist talks on experimental animation, most recently at Harvard University.
Nelson has a background as a photo/video journalist with her prior work featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Art News Magazine, and Time Out NY. She has worked on animations for CNN, MTV and Vox. She launched a production studio with her collaborators: CUPALOY Studio.
Nelson works as a professor teaching Digital Art in New York City.
Email: cvoagen (at) gmail.com