Carolina Montejo is a Colombian-American artist, educator and filmmaker based in San Diego, California. She has a BA in Communications from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and an MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego.
Her films and video installations center on nature and ecology, as well as notions of community and justice that are told through experimental and traditional narratives. Montejo’s work also engages with the aesthetic overlaps of analogue and digital imagery, as well as sound and performance art.
She is an Adjunct Professor at Muir Writing College, UCSD, and Associate Director of the Environmental Studies Program. She is the 2025-26 Co-Chair of the Masters of Advanced Studies in Marine Biology and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Montejo is also the Creative Director of her independent film production company, Telepathine Studio.