Césaire José Carroll-Domínguez is an artist whose recent projects include the digital art piece Mapping San Diego and Logging Linda Vista. He has contributed to performances by the art collective *particle group.* One of his films, Chicano Park: A Cinematic Poem, was an official selection of the 2022 San Diego Latino Film Festival. The first act of an epic historical play he is writing, 'Spreckles,' was a finalist for the MexiCali Biennial and was selected from an open competition to be one of three performances staged at the 2022 Beyond The Box performance festival in Marfa, Texas, where it starred Roberta Colindrez (Girls, I Love Dick, Vida). Works by Carroll-Domínguez have been exhibited in museums such as MCASD and MOPA.
He has held fellowships at UCSD, where he created a digital art exhibition in response to police violence, The Reel Voices program at the Pacific Arts Movement where he made Logging Linda Vista, which premiered to critical acclaim at the 2022 San Diego Asian Film Festival and was the opening night film at last year's All American High School Film Festival. And at the Media Arts Center San Diego where he was brought by personal invitation from the selection committee to participate in the inaugural Young Producers Accelerator Program where he created the video art piece Fully Loaded Gun; An Exquisite Corpse which the president of the 2023 True/False Film Festival selection committee hailed as "[A] Wild and Inventive film". Currently Carroll-Domínguez holds the Transborder Film Fellowship at Kodak and Standard Fantastic Pictures.
Carroll-Domínguez attended secondary school at the Cinematic Arts program at the San Diego School of the Creative and Performing Arts, where he graduated with honors and was the 2024 recipient of the Larry Baza Scholarship Award for the Visual and Performing Arts. Carroll-Domínguez is now a student in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in the college of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University in the class of two thousand and twenty eight.