Beatrice Caracciolo (b. 1955, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Paris-based Italian artist known primarily for her semi-abstract drawings and collages of scenes from nature and art history, rendered through dynamic and delicate markings.

For the past decade, she has experimented with a variety of materials—charcoal, zinc that has been exposed to natural elements, eroded metal, etc. Her fascination with the intersection between humanity and nature fuels her art. In a multipart series devoted to the four elements, for example, Caracciolo conveys the visual and physical qualities of earth, water, air, and fire—and their unique cultural and historical resonances—through a range of mixed-media paintings, drawings, manipulated photographs, and text-based pieces. She has also transformed a staircase into a waterfall through the installation of hundreds of scraps of weathered metal.

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