Cece Carpio is a worldly muralist and painter whose work exudes power, resilience, and resistance through portraits and natural beauty. She is influenced by incredible individuals she has encountered, so Carpio “paints visual stories of everyday people fighting for a more dignified existence.” ⁠

⁠Carpio’s bond to the Bay Area is like nothing else: “I have cultivated two decades of long-term trusted relationships with artists, activists, community scholars, street virtuosos, and wide arrays of movement organizations here in the Bay.” ⁠

⁠Her community-based mural practice creates a space for “a sacred collaborative process of reclaiming our agency, our stories, and our physical space in a world where what is public is increasingly being privatized.” Carpio’s work fuses ancestry and folklore with urban art techniques to capture the broad attention of the communities her murals inhabit. “The work I implement in public spaces defy the notion that art is of and for the privileged but an essential component of everyone’s lives.”⁠

Feature Published: July 1, 2022
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