Artside Chat: Rimer Cardillo's Deep Ecologies and Temporal Geographies | Thursday, August 28, 6 - 7 PM, Free

For more than five decades, Rimer Cardillo’s work has offered a powerful meditation on the intersection of politics, economics, and ecological degradation. Since the late 1970s, his practice has focused on the devastating impact of human activity on the natural world—particularly the alarming decline of animal species and plant life. Sacred Ecologies underscores the artist’s long-held belief that the systemic oppression of Indigenous communities is intrinsically linked to the destruction of ecosystems, biodiversity, and the fragile balance that sustains life.

Cardillo’s dynamic, multimedia practice spans print, installation, and mixed media works incorporating found materials such as clay, wood, and paper. He navigates multiple artistic genres—printmaking, photography, sculpture, and film—with both technical mastery and political urgency. His iconic series of prints serve not only as formal achievements but as platforms for advocacy, calling attention to the global consequences of environmental neglect and cultural erasure.

Cardillo studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Montevideo, the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art, and the Leipzig School of Graphic Arts. Since 1979, he has lived in the U.S., where he taught printmaking at the State University of New York at New Paltz. A 1997 Guggenheim Fellow, Cardillo represented Uruguay at the 2001 Venice Biennale and has exhibited extensively across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. His work resides in public and private collections worldwide.

Artside Chat: Deep Ecologies/Sacred Natures/Temporal Geographies

By Plains Art Museum

Artside Chat: Deep Ecologies/Sacred Natures/Temporal Geographies

Come explore with is our deep human entanglement with the natural world.