Carmen Lang grew up in Mexico City. She has a BFA (1991-96) from La Esmeralda where she also was a professor of Ceramics and Drawing (97-2003). She has a MFA from California College of the Arts (2013), as a grad student she was awarded the George B Saxe scholarship, and also a scholarship at Penland School of Crafts. In 2018 she won 2nd prize in 2da Bienal de Cerámica Artística Contemporánea in Tijuana. She was an invited artist to the 2014 Human Form Symposium at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

Since 2013 she has taught at UC Berkeley, SFAI extension program, Holy Names University, Richmond Art Center and Sierra College.
Carmen has done artistic residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Uriarte Talavera with grants from FONCA in Mexico. She has been a guest artist at the University of Manitoba and San Francisco State University. She continuously participates in national and international solo and group shows.

In her words… “I see the human body as a container of impulses, a material life which entails a personality. I invest my practice in tactile procedures, because transforming materials into figures I have a more satisfying apprehension of the human body. For a long time, my work has been about representations of the body with a lot of detail, and highly narrative.”