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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Overburden 
video, 3:25 min. 


Installed at Blankspace, Pittsburg


Overburden, sinks into legacies of bituminous strip mining in Pittsburgh. The work consists of fluid/frame simulation and amalgamated 3D scans of international mines using the same extractive technologies and modes of dispersal deployed in Western PA. Set in a fabulated network of abandoned drifts sitting just below the surface of Allegheny County, A love story between a bucket wheel excavator, bituminous coal and computer processing systems.
2023