Growing Deep Roots

2026 On view

Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis

Growing Deep Roots — Carolina Caycedo in the Island Press workshop. Image by Kate Munsch, courtesy of WashU.

Address 1 Brookings Dr
St. Louis, MO

Site Description

Accessibility: The museum is free and open to the public. It is a short walk from the university’s East End garage. Visitors may also be dropped off at the Brookings Drive circle, located off Skinker Boulevard. The museum is ADA accessible.

Open Hours: 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Wed–Mon

Exhibition Details

Growing Deep Roots brings together new and recent works by Los Angeles–based Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo that address the interrelated issues of water and land stewardship, just energy transition, and reciprocal relationships between humans and the natural world. Incorporating sculpture, drawings, prints, and videos, Caycedo draws on environmental justice frameworks, traditional knowledge systems, and ecofeminism to examine the social and ecological consequences of extractive development while imagining more sustainable futures. The exhibition features works from several of Caycedo’s ongoing series, alongside new commissions informed by her research into Midwestern prairie grasses and perennial agriculture systems. Curated by Meredith Malone, the Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg Curator and Senior Curator at the Kemper Art Museum.