The daughter of Sosten Clovis Lucero and Katherine Maria Lucero, Caroline Carpio was born into Isleta Pueblo in October, 1962. After high school she began studying photography at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe but a couple classes in pottery and clay arts captured her attention. She found a new path in three-dimensional art and moved more into making traditional pottery, graduating from the University of New Mexico with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1996.

Caroline has been making pottery for more than 30 years now. For almost 20 years she has also been producing bronze sculptures based on her pottery shapes and designs.

Caroline's work is displayed in venues such as the Museum of Arizona, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She makes the whole range of traditional styles and shapes, from melon jars to wedding vases to figurines. Virtually all of her pieces incorporate water depictions such as rain, clouds, cattails and dragonflies. She says she finds her inspiration in the traditions of her people and the beauty of Mother Earth that surrounds her. In her own words: "We all have different ways to pay homage to our Creator for our existence, and my means of paying the honor is to create something beautiful that comes comes from Mother Earth, from which we all came. The representation of my people, and the contemporary expression of who I am is voiced through the creations of my art. It guides us to the past and to the future."