How can I buy a work by Carlos Salazar-Lermont?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Carlos Salazar-Lermont. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Carlos Salazar-Lermont in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Carlos Salazar-Lermont make?

Performances, videos, photographs and installations about the moral codes Catholicism still sets in Latin America and about Venezuelan migration, often using his own body and materials such as Mylar emergency blankets and arepa flour packaging, as in Sanctuary (2022) and Esperando A Dios (EAD) v.01 (2022–23).

Where is Carlos Salazar-Lermont based?

Carlos Salazar-Lermont lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Has Carlos Salazar-Lermont had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Vanitas Vanitatum (4 April to 12 July 2025); Esperando A Dios (EAD) v.01 (28 April to 25 August 2023) are among his exhibitions at the gallery.

Carlos Salazar-Lermont

Carlos Salazar-Lermont (born 1987) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist who works in performance, video, photography and installation. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he moved to the United States in 2016. His work looks at the moral codes that Catholicism, inherited from colonial rule, still sets in Latin America, and at Venezuelan migration, often using his own body as material and borrowing from Baroque religious imagery.

Recurring materials include Mylar emergency blankets and the packaging of the corn flour used to make arepas, much of it donated by Venezuelan immigrants in Missouri. In the three-channel video installation Sanctuary (2022), Venezuelan immigrants make arepas on screens set into frames based on Baroque churches in Caracas. In the photograph Transubstantiation on Gray (2021) he wears a crown twisted from wire hangers, and for the durational performance Habitus (2025) he kept a monk’s tonsure for 34 days.

In Venezuela, Salazar-Lermont founded P3 Plataforma Para Performance (2014) and the International Performance Art Biennial of Caracas (2015).

Salazar-Lermont earned a BFA in sculpture from UNEARTE in Venezuela (2012), a dual MA in Arts Administration and Policy and Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019) and an MFA in Visual Art from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis (2022), where he was a Danforth Scholar and later taught as a part-time lecturer. He received a 2023 Regional Arts Commission grant and was selected for a 2025 Sam Fox School residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.

His work has been shown in more than a dozen countries, including at Chicago’s Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival. Recent exhibitions in Chicago include Fixing the Baroque at ACRE Projects (2025–26), Mutuality at the Hyde Park Art Center (2025–26) and a solo presentation at The Arts Club of Chicago (2026). He has had two solo exhibitions at Bruno David Gallery: Esperando A Dios (EAD) v.01 (2023), a video about the marginalization of immigrants, filmed in front of fast-food “now hiring” signs in St. Louis, and Vanitas Vanitatum (2025), a split-screen video drawn from the Book of Ecclesiastes.

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