Bio
Austin Caswell (b. Denver, CO 1996) is a sculptor and installation artist who examines the transformation of objects and ideas in our hypermodern culture. His work engages the tension between mass production and the handcrafted, exploring our relationships with renewal, obsolescence, and the search for meaning in an age of endless replication.
Caswell creates sculptures and speculative sites that conflate timelines through the juxtaposition of industrial artifacts with handmade replicas, repurposed materials, and naturally formed objects. Manipulating the temporal and material qualities of everyday objects, his work invites space to reconsider our relationship with the physical, material world. Employing diverse materials- such as hand-carved wood, discarded plastics, sea salt, living plants, paleolithic flint, and contemporary technologies- his work explores alternative narratives and landscapes that question our current cycles of production and consumption.
Austin Caswell has been a fellow at Haystack Mountain School of Craft and the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona. He was awarded the Pat Mutterer Sculpture and Architecture Award in the 2024 Arizona Biennial. Caswell has exhibited across the United States in venues such as the Tucson Museum of Art, the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, the Museum of Art- Fort Collins, and 311 Gallery in Raleigh, NC. He also holds professional experience as a studio instructor, carpenter, landscape designer, and fabricator. Caswell received a BA in Integrated Visual Studies as well as a BA in History from Colorado State University and is currently pursuing an MFA in 3D and Extended Media at the University of Arizona.