Carolina Guillermet’s work is rooted in an uncompromising exploration of color and geometry. Her practice investigates how chromatic intensity and structural clarity can open up sensorial and intellectual dimensions simultaneously. For Guillermet, color is never simply an accent or surface effect: it is an active force, capable of creating tensions, harmonies, and contradictions that shape perception. Geometry, with its apparent stability, becomes a framework within which color unfolds in unpredictable ways—sometimes expanding beyond its boundaries, sometimes collapsing into new depths of meaning.
Her process is deeply informed by both painting and textiles. In recent years, Guillermet has developed a body of work that translates color into tactile experiences, where hues are not only seen but felt. This synesthetic approach extends her research into the legacies of abstraction, opening a dialogue between modernist rigor and contemporary sensibility. Each work emerges as a site where emotional resonance and structural precision intersect, challenging the viewer to inhabit contradiction and ambiguity as vital states of perception.
Guillermet’s artistic trajectory spans exhibitions in museums and galleries across Costa Rica, Switzerland, and France. She was awarded the National Prize of Painting of Costa Rica (2006), and has participated in international research and curatorial programs including the Queens Museum in New York (2013), the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2015), and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (2016). She has also undertaken study residencies in South Korea, China, and the USA, expanding her vocabulary of abstraction through encounters with diverse artistic traditions.
She holds a Master’s degree in Artistic Research and Creation from the Université Toulouse II – France, and a Postgraduate degree from the Haute École d’Art et Design, Geneva, Switzerland. Guillermet is currently a professor at the School of Fine Arts, University of Costa Rica, where she continues to integrate artistic research with teaching and critical discourse.