About

Caro's practice moves between painting, quilting, and sculpture, operating through handicraft as both structure and subject. Woodworking, quilting, appliqué, and needlepoint function as framing devices and conceptual tools, asking how images shift when materials change and how domestic labor coexists with industry, extraction, and isolation.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was awarded the Marjory Glassburn Francis Award in Painting in 2023, and is currently an MFA candidate at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She will join the MFA program at the University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2026.

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Raised in Texas, her work reflects a connection to the layered histories and contradictions of the Gulf Coast, where industrial sprawl meets the native landscape. She returns to motifs of obsolete machines, simplified geometries, and birds that hover between symbol and body; Images that hold humor and failure in tension and attempt, gently, to offer company within conditions of estrangement.

Currently emerging in her career, Kroger has exhibited in group shows across Houston, Detroit, and Pittsburgh.