Caroline Kaufman

ARTIST’S PROFILE

Caroline Kaufman is a New York City based textile artist and painter whose practice explores the relationship between color and memory. Through color, texture, and pattern, she considers how memory can be evoked and reimagined through visual language. Series such as Times of Day, What You Think vs. What You Feel, and The Start of the Day is the End of the Dream, are collections of work that focus on translating synesthesia into layered textile compositions. 

Rooted in sustainability, Kaufman primarily works with repurposed materials to create her abstract tapestries. She holds a BFA in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute and is a national recipient of the Windgate Fellowship from the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design. Other notable achievements include a Positive Impact Award and Junior Venture Fellowship from the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator, Varda Artist Residency in Sausalito, CA (2017-2020), Ideas Island Residency in Stockholm, Sweden (2022), and a guest juror for the Peters Valley School of Craft textile exhibition, ‘Timeless Textiles’ (2025)

Read about Caroline‘s residency project in her own words… 

At La Moissie, I will work on my series Rearranging the Furniture, creating gouache paintings as counterparts to textile tapestries I make in my New York City studio. I look forward to focused time to develop this work and soak up inspiration from the Périgord Noir, among its groves of trees and golden stone structures.