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Professional portrait of Observer Arts Reporter Elisa Carollo

Elisa Carollo

Arts Reporter

Elisa Carollo is an art writer, art advisor and curator with a focus on contemporary and ultra-contemporary art. With over a decade in the art business at different levels between secondary and primary market, as well as engaging institutions and Biennales, she covers the latest from the Art World and Art Market for Obsever.

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  • @elisartgal
A large, vividly detailed painting with oval, dreamlike scenes hangs against a bright red gallery wall.

Portland’s Homegrown Triennial Returns With Outside Curation and Hyper-Local Soul

By Elisa Carollo
A man in a blue blazer speaking into a microphone in front of hanging artworks and banners bearing artists’ names.

Reid Walker On the Infrastructure Gap Holding Back Native American Art

By Elisa Carollo
A long, dark metal reclining figure sculpture stretches across a grassy hillside with mountain peaks and scattered clouds in the distance.

Tiny But Mighty, Aspen Has Become the Art World’s Most Exclusive Summer Retreat

By Elisa Carollo
A desert landscape at golden hour features Nicholas Galanin’s large-scale “INDIAN LAND” installation in block letters, with rugged mountains rising behind it.

For 10 Years, Desert X Has Let the Rift Valley Landscape Do the Curating

By Elisa Carollo
A woman with long blond hair sits in a green chair wearing a black sequined top and black pants against a dark patterned wall and modern fireplace.

Collector Amanda Precourt Skipped the Vanity Museum to Give Denver a Community Art Space

By Elisa Carollo
Two visitors stand inside a dark, red-lit historic hall where large screens project fiery orange imagery and a black-and-white figure, reflected across a glossy floor beneath an ornate painted ceiling.

How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete

By Elisa Carollo
A dim gallery installation washed in purple light features neon figures on the walls, small café tables and chairs and a microphone on a circular stage framed by dark curtains.

FEMSA Has Spent 50 Years Building a More Complete Record of Latin American Art

By Elisa Carollo
Two men pose in a book-lined room beside a white fireplace, beneath a large monochrome artwork depicting a tropical conservatory and fountain.

The Icy Gays Built a Collection By Cultivating Relationships—and Ignoring Market Hype

By Elisa Carollo
A group of ancient-looking heads and masks sits on and above an ornate white fireplace, including a cardboard mask mounted on the wall.

Thomas Houseago Makes Ancient Objects Speak to Our Violent Present

By Elisa Carollo
A man in black clothing and round glasses stands outdoors against a railing, with the Gwangju Biennale building and its Korean and English signage behind him.

Ho Tzu Nyen Wants the Gwangju Biennale to Honor the Past, Not Relive It

By Elisa Carollo
Princeton graduate and undergraduate students view Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge” at the Princeton University Art Museum during a student preview.

The Biggest Gifts to University Art Museums in 2026

By Elisa Carollo
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