Caroline Amond is an emerging visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University in 2019 and a MFA in Art from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2024. Caroline has exhibited in an assortment of exhibitions across New York (Powerhouse Arts, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery) and has received multiple awards (Morris Dorsky and Rose Goldstein Memorial Scholarship) for her artistic contributions. Her work was featured on Artnet’s “Best Work of 2024: 11 Standouts We Saw Globally.” Amond’s bold paintings challenge conventional beauty standards and provoke viewers to decode the layered symbolism and iconography imbues within each work. She focuses on allegorical themes and prioritizes the female gaze, while also reflecting on the post-internet culture in which she was raised.

Statement

My paintings reimagine the historical tradition of the Venus figure through a contemporary lens. I coin the figures in my work “Oppositional Venuses”, reclaiming agency in a visual lineage where they were often rendered passive and ornamental. My work explores how the female experience is shaped and distorted through post-internet culture. I’m particularly interested in how digital spaces, especially image-based platforms, affect how femininity is constructed, performed, and consumed. Through painting, I examine the tension between hyper-visibility and objectification, self-display and self-possession. Drawing from art history, online aesthetics, and symbolic language, my paintings collapse flattened space with dense visual references, creating a surface that mirrors the saturated, disorienting quality of digital life. These works serve as a site for questioning beauty, power, and agency in an image-obsessed culture.