About me
Caroline Carlsmith is a Mellon Foundation Fellow in Time-Based Media Art Conservation at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she studies the preservation of contemporary art. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Studio Art and Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a master’s degree in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University. Her training in conservation has included work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm; the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Düsseldorf, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne; the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City; and New York Art Conservation in Brooklyn. In 2025 she is completing dual master’s degrees in Art History and Conservation Science with a capstone internship at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
