Ana Maria Caballero

"I think that the reason why the phrase "poem = work of art" has resonated so widely is because it states something that feels at once obvious and surprising. Certainly, poetry is revered as art. And yet, beyond the use of mostly short, sloganistic text, verse hasn’t participated in the art world or its markets in a way that honors poetry’s contribution to culture or reveres the poet’s craft."

  1. Ana María Caballero is a multidisciplinary Colombian-American literary artist whose work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticised motherhood and questioning notions that package sacrifice as a virtue. 


  2. Caballero is the author of Mammal (Steel Tool Books, 2024); A Petit Mal (Black Spring Press, 2023); Tryst (Alexandria Publishing, 2022); mid-life (Finishing Line Press, 2016); Reverse Commute (Silver Birch Press, 2014); Entre domingo y domingo (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2023 and 2014).  


  3. Caballero has always considered herself both a poet and an artist. When she applied for an MFA in poetry ten years ago, she requested to pursue a joint major in fine art. However, the lack of communication between the two departments made this impossible. Despite this, Ana continuously envisioned ways to extend her poems beyond the confines of the page.


  4. The first living poet to sell a digital poem at Sotheby’s and via live auction in Spain, Caballero has also released digital poems in partnership with TIME, Diario ABC and Playboy. She is a contributing writer for Forbes, reporting on Web3 culture. 


  5. Widely recognised as a digital poetry pioneer whose own practice is transforming the way language is exhibited, experienced and transacted, she’s also the co-founder of literary gallery theVERSEverse, short-listed for the Lumen Prize and the Digital Innovation in Art Award.

Selected group shows  

The Future of Art, presented by The Lumen Prize at the Victoria & Albert Museum's inaugural Digital Art Season, London, 2024
HEK Museum, Virtual Exhibition, 2024
Digital Art Day Málaga, Carmen Thyssen Museum, 2024
Money Talks, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, 2024
Bright Moments Retrospective, Venice, Italy, 2024
Art Dubai Digital, Gazelli Art House, Dubai, UAE, 2024
Close Reading, Office Impart, Berlin, Germany, 2024
Digitally Native, Sotheby’s, online, 2024
Catalyst, Knight Foundation, Miami Beach, USA, 2023
Bright Moments, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023
CALL ART III, Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum, Wroclaw, Poland, 2023
Archivos Atómicos, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023
FeralVerse, Feral File, online, 2023
Code Chronicles, bitforms, New York, USA, 2023
JustMAD Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, 2023
XENOSPACE, Epoch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
Poème SBJKT, Librairie Métamorphoses and L'Avant Galerie VOSSEN, Paris, France, 2023
FEMGEN, Vertical Crypto Art and Right Click Save, Miami, USA, 2022
GAZELL.iO, London, UK, 2022
Poem = Work of Art, Digital Francisco Carolinum, online, 2022
Lynn University NFT + Fine Art Museum, Boca Raton, USA, 2022
The Art of Gender and Sexuality, Sevens Foundation, online, 2022
AI Art + Poetry, Durán Subastas Auction, Madrid, Spain, 2022

Selected solo shows  

Beyond the Page, Basel, Switzerland, 2024 

Awards

Finalist, the Lumen Prize, 2024
Academy of American Poets Prize, 2024
A Petit Mal, finalist for the INDIES Forward Prize Book of the Year Award, 2024
Future Art Writers Award, 2023
Nominated for a MAXXI Bulgari Prize in the Digital Sector, 2023
A Petit Mal, long-listed for the Electric Book Award, 2023
theVERSEverse, finalist for the Lumen Prize, 2023
MAMMAL, Winner of the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, 2022
MAMMAL, Semifinalist for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, 2022
Nominated for a Best of the Net Award in Poetry, 2022
Nominated for a Knight Foundation Art + Tech Fellowship, 2022
A Petit Mal, First Runner Up, AWP Kurt Brown Prize, 2022
A Petit Mal, Longlisted, Memoir Prize for Books, 2022
theVERSEverse, Finalist, Digital Innovation in Art Award, 2022
"Vasectomy," Awarded a Sevens Foundation x Playboy Grant, 2022
MAMMAL, a Tupelo Press Manuscript of Exceptional Merit, 2022
"Transmission," Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2021
A Petit Mal, Finalist for the Essay Press Prize, 2020
A Petit Mal, Awarded the 2020 Beverly International Prize for Literature, 2020
A Petit Mal, Shortlisted for the Split/Lip Press annual reading period, 2020
A Petit Mal, Shortlisted for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards, 2020
"Ways to Misspell Obsidian," Finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, 2019
Runner up for the Academy of American Poets Prize, 2019
Entre domingo y domingo, Second place, Concursos Ediciones Embalaje, 2014
Entre domingo y domingo, Winner of Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, 201

In collections

MAD Arts museum, Dania Beach, FL, USA

Selected press

Digital Art Screening: The Lumen Prize presents The Future of Art Part within the V&A’s inaugural Digital Art Season, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Interview on Spanish National TV for World Poetry Day, RTVE, 2024 (in Spanish)
Artificial Intelligence is Conquering Image Production, Well-Known Magazine, 2024 (in German)
Bitcoin Ordinals Inscription Marks First Individual Poem Sale by Sotheby’s, Decrypt, 2024
Interview with Ana María Caballero, NPR, 2023 (audio)
A Personal List of Some of the Most Interesting Digital Art Experiments of 2023, Artnet, 2023
The Assay Journal Interview Series: Ana María Caballero, Assay Journal, 2024
Poetry and the New Meaning of Curation, Right Click Save, 2022
New Forum Interview: Ana María Caballero, 2022 (video)
Poetry is the Latest NFT Frontier and Miami is at the Forefront, Refresh Miami, 2022
The Women Behind the NFTs Boom

Selected group shows  

The Future of Art, presented by The Lumen Prize at the Victoria & Albert Museum's inaugural Digital Art Season, London, 2024
HEK Museum, Virtual Exhibition, 2024
Digital Art Day Málaga, Carmen Thyssen Museum, 2024
Money Talks, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, 2024
Bright Moments Retrospective, Venice, Italy, 2024
Art Dubai Digital, Gazelli Art House, Dubai, UAE, 2024
Close Reading, Office Impart, Berlin, Germany, 2024
Digitally Native, Sotheby’s, online, 2024
Catalyst, Knight Foundation, Miami Beach, USA, 2023
Bright Moments, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023
CALL ART III, Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum, Wroclaw, Poland, 2023
Archivos Atómicos, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023
FeralVerse, Feral File, online, 2023
Code Chronicles, bitforms, New York, USA, 2023
JustMAD Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, 2023
XENOSPACE, Epoch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
Poème SBJKT, Librairie Métamorphoses and L'Avant Galerie VOSSEN, Paris, France, 2023
FEMGEN, Vertical Crypto Art and Right Click Save, Miami, USA, 2022
GAZELL.iO, London, UK, 2022
Poem = Work of Art, Digital Francisco Carolinum, online, 2022
Lynn University NFT + Fine Art Museum, Boca Raton, USA, 2022
The Art of Gender and Sexuality, Sevens Foundation, online, 2022
AI Art + Poetry, Durán Subastas Auction, Madrid, Spain, 2022

Selected solo shows  

Beyond the Page, Basel, Switzerland, 2024 

Awards

Finalist, the Lumen Prize, 2024
Academy of American Poets Prize, 2024
A Petit Mal, finalist for the INDIES Forward Prize Book of the Year Award, 2024
Future Art Writers Award, 2023
Nominated for a MAXXI Bulgari Prize in the Digital Sector, 2023
A Petit Mal, long-listed for the Electric Book Award, 2023
theVERSEverse, finalist for the Lumen Prize, 2023
MAMMAL, Winner of the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, 2022
MAMMAL, Semifinalist for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, 2022
Nominated for a Best of the Net Award in Poetry, 2022
Nominated for a Knight Foundation Art + Tech Fellowship, 2022
A Petit Mal, First Runner Up, AWP Kurt Brown Prize, 2022
A Petit Mal, Longlisted, Memoir Prize for Books, 2022
theVERSEverse, Finalist, Digital Innovation in Art Award, 2022
"Vasectomy," Awarded a Sevens Foundation x Playboy Grant, 2022
MAMMAL, a Tupelo Press Manuscript of Exceptional Merit, 2022
"Transmission," Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2021
A Petit Mal, Finalist for the Essay Press Prize, 2020
A Petit Mal, Awarded the 2020 Beverly International Prize for Literature, 2020
A Petit Mal, Shortlisted for the Split/Lip Press annual reading period, 2020
A Petit Mal, Shortlisted for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards, 2020
"Ways to Misspell Obsidian," Finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, 2019
Runner up for the Academy of American Poets Prize, 2019
Entre domingo y domingo, Second place, Concursos Ediciones Embalaje, 2014
Entre domingo y domingo, Winner of Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, 201

In collections

MAD Arts museum, Dania Beach, FL, USA

Selected press

Digital Art Screening: The Lumen Prize presents The Future of Art Part within the V&A’s inaugural Digital Art Season, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Interview on Spanish National TV for World Poetry Day, RTVE, 2024 (in Spanish)
Artificial Intelligence is Conquering Image Production, Well-Known Magazine, 2024 (in German)
Bitcoin Ordinals Inscription Marks First Individual Poem Sale by Sotheby’s, Decrypt, 2024
Interview with Ana María Caballero, NPR, 2023 (audio)
A Personal List of Some of the Most Interesting Digital Art Experiments of 2023, Artnet, 2023
The Assay Journal Interview Series: Ana María Caballero, Assay Journal, 2024
Poetry and the New Meaning of Curation, Right Click Save, 2022
New Forum Interview: Ana María Caballero, 2022 (video)
Poetry is the Latest NFT Frontier and Miami is at the Forefront, Refresh Miami, 2022
The Women Behind the NFTs Boom

Selected group shows  

The Future of Art, presented by The Lumen Prize at the Victoria & Albert Museum's inaugural Digital Art Season, London, 2024
HEK Museum, Virtual Exhibition, 2024
Digital Art Day Málaga, Carmen Thyssen Museum, 2024
Money Talks, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, 2024
Bright Moments Retrospective, Venice, Italy, 2024
Art Dubai Digital, Gazelli Art House, Dubai, UAE, 2024
Close Reading, Office Impart, Berlin, Germany, 2024
Digitally Native, Sotheby’s, online, 2024
Catalyst, Knight Foundation, Miami Beach, USA, 2023
Bright Moments, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023
CALL ART III, Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum, Wroclaw, Poland, 2023
Archivos Atómicos, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023
FeralVerse, Feral File, online, 2023
Code Chronicles, bitforms, New York, USA, 2023
JustMAD Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, 2023
XENOSPACE, Epoch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
Poème SBJKT, Librairie Métamorphoses and L'Avant Galerie VOSSEN, Paris, France, 2023
FEMGEN, Vertical Crypto Art and Right Click Save, Miami, USA, 2022
GAZELL.iO, London, UK, 2022
Poem = Work of Art, Digital Francisco Carolinum, online, 2022
Lynn University NFT + Fine Art Museum, Boca Raton, USA, 2022
The Art of Gender and Sexuality, Sevens Foundation, online, 2022
AI Art + Poetry, Durán Subastas Auction, Madrid, Spain, 2022

Selected solo shows  

Beyond the Page, Basel, Switzerland, 2024 

Awards

Finalist, the Lumen Prize, 2024
Academy of American Poets Prize, 2024
A Petit Mal, finalist for the INDIES Forward Prize Book of the Year Award, 2024
Future Art Writers Award, 2023
Nominated for a MAXXI Bulgari Prize in the Digital Sector, 2023
A Petit Mal, long-listed for the Electric Book Award, 2023
theVERSEverse, finalist for the Lumen Prize, 2023
MAMMAL, Winner of the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, 2022
MAMMAL, Semifinalist for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, 2022
Nominated for a Best of the Net Award in Poetry, 2022
Nominated for a Knight Foundation Art + Tech Fellowship, 2022
A Petit Mal, First Runner Up, AWP Kurt Brown Prize, 2022
A Petit Mal, Longlisted, Memoir Prize for Books, 2022
theVERSEverse, Finalist, Digital Innovation in Art Award, 2022
"Vasectomy," Awarded a Sevens Foundation x Playboy Grant, 2022
MAMMAL, a Tupelo Press Manuscript of Exceptional Merit, 2022
"Transmission," Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2021
A Petit Mal, Finalist for the Essay Press Prize, 2020
A Petit Mal, Awarded the 2020 Beverly International Prize for Literature, 2020
A Petit Mal, Shortlisted for the Split/Lip Press annual reading period, 2020
A Petit Mal, Shortlisted for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards, 2020
"Ways to Misspell Obsidian," Finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, 2019
Runner up for the Academy of American Poets Prize, 2019
Entre domingo y domingo, Second place, Concursos Ediciones Embalaje, 2014
Entre domingo y domingo, Winner of Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, 201

In collections

MAD Arts museum, Dania Beach, FL, USA

Selected press

Digital Art Screening: The Lumen Prize presents The Future of Art Part within the V&A’s inaugural Digital Art Season, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Interview on Spanish National TV for World Poetry Day, RTVE, 2024 (in Spanish)
Artificial Intelligence is Conquering Image Production, Well-Known Magazine, 2024 (in German)
Bitcoin Ordinals Inscription Marks First Individual Poem Sale by Sotheby’s, Decrypt, 2024
Interview with Ana María Caballero, NPR, 2023 (audio)
A Personal List of Some of the Most Interesting Digital Art Experiments of 2023, Artnet, 2023
The Assay Journal Interview Series: Ana María Caballero, Assay Journal, 2024
Poetry and the New Meaning of Curation, Right Click Save, 2022
New Forum Interview: Ana María Caballero, 2022 (video)
Poetry is the Latest NFT Frontier and Miami is at the Forefront, Refresh Miami, 2022
The Women Behind the NFTs Boom

Selected group shows  

The Future of Art, presented by The Lumen Prize at the Victoria & Albert Museum's inaugural Digital Art Season, London, 2024
HEK Museum, Virtual Exhibition, 2024
Digital Art Day Málaga, Carmen Thyssen Museum, 2024
Money Talks, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, 2024
Bright Moments Retrospective, Venice, Italy, 2024
Art Dubai Digital, Gazelli Art House, Dubai, UAE, 2024
Close Reading, Office Impart, Berlin, Germany, 2024
Digitally Native, Sotheby’s, online, 2024
Catalyst, Knight Foundation, Miami Beach, USA, 2023
Bright Moments, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023
CALL ART III, Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum, Wroclaw, Poland, 2023
Archivos Atómicos, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá, Colombia, 2023
FeralVerse, Feral File, online, 2023
Code Chronicles, bitforms, New York, USA, 2023
JustMAD Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, 2023
XENOSPACE, Epoch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
Poème SBJKT, Librairie Métamorphoses and L'Avant Galerie VOSSEN, Paris, France, 2023
FEMGEN, Vertical Crypto Art and Right Click Save, Miami, USA, 2022
GAZELL.iO, London, UK, 2022
Poem = Work of Art, Digital Francisco Carolinum, online, 2022
Lynn University NFT + Fine Art Museum, Boca Raton, USA, 2022
The Art of Gender and Sexuality, Sevens Foundation, online, 2022
AI Art + Poetry, Durán Subastas Auction, Madrid, Spain, 2022

Selected solo shows  

Beyond the Page, Basel, Switzerland, 2024 

Awards

Finalist, the Lumen Prize, 2024
Academy of American Poets Prize, 2024
A Petit Mal, finalist for the INDIES Forward Prize Book of the Year Award, 2024
Future Art Writers Award, 2023
Nominated for a MAXXI Bulgari Prize in the Digital Sector, 2023
A Petit Mal, long-listed for the Electric Book Award, 2023
theVERSEverse, finalist for the Lumen Prize, 2023
MAMMAL, Winner of the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, 2022
MAMMAL, Semifinalist for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, 2022
Nominated for a Best of the Net Award in Poetry, 2022
Nominated for a Knight Foundation Art + Tech Fellowship, 2022
A Petit Mal, First Runner Up, AWP Kurt Brown Prize, 2022
A Petit Mal, Longlisted, Memoir Prize for Books, 2022
theVERSEverse, Finalist, Digital Innovation in Art Award, 2022
"Vasectomy," Awarded a Sevens Foundation x Playboy Grant, 2022
MAMMAL, a Tupelo Press Manuscript of Exceptional Merit, 2022
"Transmission," Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2021
A Petit Mal, Finalist for the Essay Press Prize, 2020
A Petit Mal, Awarded the 2020 Beverly International Prize for Literature, 2020
A Petit Mal, Shortlisted for the Split/Lip Press annual reading period, 2020
A Petit Mal, Shortlisted for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards, 2020
"Ways to Misspell Obsidian," Finalist for the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, 2019
Runner up for the Academy of American Poets Prize, 2019
Entre domingo y domingo, Second place, Concursos Ediciones Embalaje, 2014
Entre domingo y domingo, Winner of Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, 201

In collections

MAD Arts museum, Dania Beach, FL, USA

Selected press

Digital Art Screening: The Lumen Prize presents The Future of Art Part within the V&A’s inaugural Digital Art Season, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Interview on Spanish National TV for World Poetry Day, RTVE, 2024 (in Spanish)
Artificial Intelligence is Conquering Image Production, Well-Known Magazine, 2024 (in German)
Bitcoin Ordinals Inscription Marks First Individual Poem Sale by Sotheby’s, Decrypt, 2024
Interview with Ana María Caballero, NPR, 2023 (audio)
A Personal List of Some of the Most Interesting Digital Art Experiments of 2023, Artnet, 2023
The Assay Journal Interview Series: Ana María Caballero, Assay Journal, 2024
Poetry and the New Meaning of Curation, Right Click Save, 2022
New Forum Interview: Ana María Caballero, 2022 (video)
Poetry is the Latest NFT Frontier and Miami is at the Forefront, Refresh Miami, 2022
The Women Behind the NFTs Boom

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ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

OPENING HOURS

4 PM — 9 PM, Thursday–Saturday

Gallery admission is free

For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing

LEGAL

Privacy policy

T&C

@Load Gallery 2023

ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES
OPENING HOURS

4 PM — 9 PM, Thursday–Saturday

Gallery admission is free

For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing

LEGAL

Privacy policy

T&C

@Load Gallery 2023

ADDRESS

Carrer Llull, 134, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

CONTACT

visit@load-gallery.com

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

OPENING HOURS

4 PM — 9 PM, Thursday–Saturday

Gallery admission is free

For collectors, artists and potential collaborators visits are available by appointment—please email us to arrange a private viewing

LEGAL

Privacy policy

T&C

@Load Gallery 2023