Karla Ekaterine Canseco’s practice explores care, love, and violence through different mediums, particularly clay and performance. She is drawn to how matter carries information that has been passed down and is present; Our bodies collapse conceptions of time and hold stories in the same manner clay transcribes in its composition and impression, like a cannibalization of touch. In making she invites her history within, daydreams, and poetics to materialize into sculptures forming her personal and shared mythologies. She is interested in how her inherited mythologies are dislocated from time allowing them to continuously unfold. She is currently conjuring a militia of canines, guards and guides of love.
Portrait by Star Montana
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Ensoñacion Fugitiva, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Grietas de Acero, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024
At the Edge of the Sun | Jeffrey Deitch Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
2023
Drop-In | M+B | Los Angeles, CA
Barro Barrio | Guerrero | Los Angeles, CA
Making in Between: Queer Clay | AMOCA| Pomona, CA Anteanoche | Commonwealth and Council | Mexico City, Mexico
No hay refugio en un cielo sin estrellas | General Expenses | Mexico City, Mexico
2022
Ocultismo y barro | Miriam | New York, NY
material touchings don’t touch, poems | Motor | Los Angeles, CA
Outburst Project | Palm Springs Art Museum | Palm Springs, CA
2021
Were-Nenetech Forms | MOCA Tucson, AZ
2020
trash culture & honey sway | Coaxial Arts Foundation|in collaboration with Clara Lopéz Menéndez | Los Angeles, CA
Blueprint | Coaxial Arts Foundation | in collaboration with Christal Perez | Los Angeles, CA
2019
Find An Edge Can You Name It | California Institute of the Arts | Valencia, CA
McSprial | Mint Gallery, California Institute of the Arts | Valencia, CA
Puente | in collaboration with Rafa Esparza, Beatriz Cortez, and Mario Ayala with Clockshop | Los Angeles, CA
Deep Waters: A Collective Body | Maria Maea and Residency Art Gallery | Inglewood, CA
Nepantla | Rafa Esparza and Timo Fahler with Gamma Galleria | Guadalajara, MX
2018
de la calle | in collaboration with Joshua Castillo for Rafa Esparza and ICA-LA | Los Angeles, CA
Performances
2023
Auto-Body | in collaboration with rafa esparza | SFMOMA | San Francisco, CA
Pedazos de Perras | Commonwealth and Council | Mexico City, Mexico
2022
Neobiota | in collaboration with Christal Perez | Giovanni’s Room | Los Angeles, CA
Perra | Human Resources | Los Angeles, CA
Tortillera | in collaboration with Gabriela Ruiz | Los Angeles Nomadic Division & Anat Ebgi | Los Angeles, CA
2020
Object Subject | Other Places Art Fair | Los Angeles, CA
Tortillera | in collaboration with Gabriela Ruiz | Navel | Los Angeles, CA
2019
Find An Edge Can You Name It | California Institute of the Arts | Valencia, CA
A Blindly Realized Possibility | in collaboration with Christal Perez | The Box | Los Angeles, CA
Cuts/Amends | Last projects Gallery | in collaboration with Christal Perez | Los Angeles, CA
Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories | in collaboration with Christal Perez | Human Resources | Los Angeles, CA
REFILL | Rosa Boshier and Alyssa Manansal with REEF | Los Angeles, CA
2018
Snowball | in collaboration with Christal Perez | USC Training Camp Performance Series| Los Angeles, CA
With and Without Words / Con y Sin Palabras | California Institute of the Arts | Valencia, CA
Art Fairs
2023
Felix Art Fair | M+B | Los Angeles, CA
Felix Art Fair | Charlie James | Los Angeles, CA
2021
Untitled Art Fair | New Image Art | Miami, FL
Press
2024 - Performance Art Museum︎︎︎
