Karla Ekaterine Canseco (b. 1995, San Fernando Valley, California) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Canseco’s practice explores care, love, and violence through different mediums, particularly clay and performance. Canseco is interested in materials that stem from below the earth’s surface such as clay, metal and petroleum due to the material’s inherent ability to carry information from the past into the present, collapsing conceptions of time whilst holding stories in its composition and impression. Canseco uses these foundational materials to unearth stories of diasporic memory that deal with care and violence. Canseco incorporates metal elements and hand-formulated metallic glazes into her hand-built and hand-mixed clay, pushing the boundaries of traditional ceramics. 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.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include Murmurs, Los Angeles (2024); Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Veta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2024); M+B, Los Angeles (2023); Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs (2022); New Image Art, Los Angeles (2022) and MOCA Tucson, Tucson (2021). Canseco's work has been featured in LA Times, Frieze, Artforum, and Elephant Magazine.
