Caro

Caroline Holmes is an interdisciplinary artist based on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, and the founder of Coral Care Arts non-profit organization.

Oahu is often referred to as the “isle of extinction” due to its unprecedented rate of endemic species loss. In response to this remote and fragile archipelago, Caroline engages collective ecological grief and renewal through her methodology, Coralizing.

Inspired by Hawaiian principles of aloha ʻāina, her work positions coral as a deep time ancestral archive and threshold for marine and terrestrial communities. Applying observed coral logic—aggregation, adaptation and interdependence—to her practice, she integrates invasive-species biomaterial research with participatory art and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Her social art initiative, the Coral Bone Project, has generated thousands of ceramic coral bones, which are assembled into immersive installations confronting coral collapse through accessible, collective action with clay.