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Dr. Mario A. Caro is a researcher, curator, and critic of art who has published widely on the history, theory, and criticism of contemporary Indigenous arts. He has taught graduate courses at Indiana University and New York University.
His work within the academy complements his sustained engagement with various Indigenous communities to promote the professional development of Native artists.This work has also been international in scope, and includes his many years of service as president of Res Artis, a nonprofit international network of residencies focused on promoting the worldwide mobility of artists.
![Exhibition view, NIRIN – the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Artworks in view:
Eric Bridgeman, Rot Bung (Junction), 2019-20. Acrylic on wall, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Frederick McCubbin, A bush burial, 1890. Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 224.5cm. Courtesy of Geelong Gallery.
Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka, Kuini Haati 2 (Two Queen Heart), 2008–10, and Togo mo Bolataane (Tonga and Britain), 2008–10. Oil, clay, daye on tapa cloth. Both 427 x 1115 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
H.R. Balfourm Dendroglyphs of the Kalimangle Bora Ground, 1949. Single channel digital video from 16mm, colour, silent, 53 mins. Courtesy the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Brook Andrew, Powerful Object: Dendroglyph, 2020.3D model printed in clear filament, 109.5 x 49 x 23.5cm. Model made from a dendroglyph tree section, site marker, 19th Century. Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford [1948.12.77].](http://act.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MCA-install-4-1172x878.jpg)
