Cielo Saucedo (1993, Whittier, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. They are an access worker and artist from a family of migrant farm workers. Their work encompasses writing, computer generated imagery, sculpture and machine vision. They received their BFA from School of the Art Institute, Chicago in 2020, and their MFA at UCLA in 2024. They were an Eyebeam Democracy Fellow (2024). They are a part of the artist collectives, PlaceHolder and Cripping_CG. Recent exhibitions of their work include presentations at Coaxial Art Center (2025), PlaceHolder Gallery (2025), The Armory, Pasadena for Getty PST (2024), Francios Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2024), BlankSpace, Pittsburgh (2023), New Image Gallery, Los Angeles (2023), Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2024), MexiCali Biennale, The Cheech at the Riverside Museum (2023), Human Resources, Los Angeles (2022) Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago (2021) and Rudimiento, Quito (2021). They have given panels and lectures at NYU, UPenn, the Whitney Independent Study Program, Emily Carr University, Indiana State University, and the Sandburg Instituut among other institutions.

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Rotten Sun

Performance comission + Residency at Coaxial Art Center.

In collaboration with Jester Bulnes, Jazmin Jazzy Romero and Jesus Gallegos Yela, developed through Saucedo’s residency at Coaxial Arts Foundation. The residency functions less as a site of production and closer to a framework for ensemble formation. We used the space as a provisional studio where performance, video, and sound act as interdependent instruments of perception.

In culmination of the one week residency, the ensemble staged a one night performance that considers place as self. The work extends Coaxial’s architecture into a feedback system in which performers refract into multiples using audio-visual techniques, machine vision, and performance. Within this live environment, subjectivity and images circulate, are recorded, redoubled, and undone. The work emerges from a shared inquiry into how bodies move through architectures shaped by visibility and control in the aftermath of ICE raids that occupied DTLA in the summer of 2025.

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