Zenka AR Artwork
Award-winning augmented reality prints, raku-fired heads, and public street art. Exhibited at ICA LA, Sotheby's New York, FIG Bilbao, The Tech Interactive, and TEDxJacksonHole.
Zenka Caro's artwork explores control, consciousness, technology, embodiment, and the strange theater of being human in a world layered with invisible forces. Her augmented reality work brings sculpture and digital media into collision, creating pieces that exist both physically and virtually, part artifact, part apparition, part signal from a slightly more honest dimension.
Her street art extends that inquiry into public space, outside the guarded rituals of galleries and institutions. Whether through raku-fired heads, gold-leaf remote controls, AR activations, or city walls, the work asks who is holding the remote, what realities are being broadcast through us, and what happens when art refuses to stay politely in one dimension.
Her augmented-reality linoprints received Honorable Mention awards in two consecutive editions of the juried Ink & Clay competition at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona: Coco and the River Dragon (Curator's Choice, 2016) and EEG Takes Flight (Ink Juror's Choice, 2017). Both works were later included in the 2022 FIG Bilbao international print and paper-art fair in Spain.
Selected exhibitions include Presence, her 2015 solo show at the District Gallery in the Arts District of Los Angeles, featuring more than twenty life-sized raku sculptures depicting the history of virtual reality headsets; the 2018 to 2019 Agency of Assets: Reality Augmented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA); the 2017 Art of VR panel at Sotheby's auction house in New York; TEDxJacksonHole in 2016; and Nuestro estilo cordobés, a 2022 collective exhibition in the hall of the Legislatura de la Provincia de Córdoba.
Caro's work in Córdoba, Argentina spans more than a decade, including a 2012 Before I Die public-art wall featured in Candy Chang's 2013 book of the same name (St. Martin's Press), a 2012 collective intervention with JR's Inside Out Project at the Mercado del Abasto, and the 2021 Feria de Arte Córdoba.
Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Delta terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, The Tech Interactive in San Jose, Accenture Interactive in New York, and several technology companies in the United States and abroad.
Series & installations.
Futuristic Remote Controls
A series of raku-fired clay remote controls with gold-leaf buttons, brought alive by augmented reality overlays.
Timeline: VR Heads
Raku-fired sculptural heads charting the evolution of virtual reality headsets, displayed at The Tech Museum of Innovation.
Augmented Reality NFTs↗
AR-enabled NFT collection. Drop at MAPA Buenos Aires, March 2022. View through the Zenka AR Prints app.
Inter Dimensional Travel Agency
Animated NFT exploring travel between dimensions. Part of the AR-enabled NFT series.
Exo Metaverse
A UFO-mapped speculative geography of the metaverse beyond Earth.
Raku-fired Sculptures
Hand-built ceramic forms fired in the raku tradition. The medium beneath the AR Prints and VR Heads series.
AR Prints
Photographic prints with augmented reality overlays. Stopping Time, Leap into Magic, and the Hololens Hackathon series.
Street Installations
Public-facing works installed in cities and unexpected places. Out where the public lives.
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