Carlos Garaicoa (born 1967), a Cuban conceptual artist who lives and works between Havana and Madrid, is internationally recognized for his multidisciplinary practice that interrogates architecture, urbanism, politics, and the failures of utopian ideologies through photography, installation, video, sculpture, and site-specific interventions. Using materials such as neon, thread, light, architectural models, and found objects, he poetically reveals the contradictions between grand modernist plans and the realities of decay, memory, and everyday life in post-revolutionary Cuba. A graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, his subtle yet incisive works transform the city into a symbolic space for reflecting on power, history, and social change, earning him exhibitions at Documenta, the Venice Biennale, MoMA, and Tate Modern.