Carolina Rojas

Part-time Instructor, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Carolina Rojas is a Colombian artist-educator and designer, based in New York. Through drawings, assemblages and installations, Rojas’s artistic practice explores life-death dichotomies and human-nonhuman-animal relationships. Inspired by Victorian-era curiosities, she integrates nonhuman animal themes and conservation, bridging art, education, and natural sciences. Her contributions to pedagogy and art have been presented and exhibited individually and collectively worldwide. Currently, her work is part of Sketch Gallery.

Rojas is a doctoral Fulbright grantee pursuing an Ed.D.CT. in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is an adjunct faculty and design fellow. Previously, she was an assistant professor at Universidad de Los Andes School of Design in Bogotá. She has taught courses including Professional Practice for Artists, Advanced Studio, Design for Educators, Graphic and Editorial Design, Illustration, Drawing, and Digital Imaging. Additionally, she has advised thesis projects at both undergraduate and master levels. Alongside her educational and artistic endeavors, Rojas has undertaken various illustration, editorial, and graphic design projects for artistic and educational institutions. She is also the author of Ilustrados Collection of Fanzines (Ediciones Uniandes, 2015).

Rojas holds an M.F.A. in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute, a Specialist Degree in Design and Television Production from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and a B.A. in Electronic Media and Time Arts from Universidad de Los Andes.