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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Keep Moving Forward
Two level video game developed in Unity, custom software

The player in Keep Moving Forward walks through a maze of oil barrels and pipelines while water increasingly rises, and drowns the player.
Visual clipping (a software limitation) obscures long range vision,
a metaphor for the hidden oil infrastructure in the United States.

Once they reach the end of the maze they are taken to a broken pipeline.
The game play is programmed to lag and eventually crash, an allusion to “peak oil”, a theorized point when earth has reached the extractive limit of petroleum.

2018