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Karla Kantorovich

Karla Kantorovich is a mixed media artist from Mexico City-based in Miami, FL. She works with paintings, textiles, hand-made paper, and assemblages, leaning into the importance of texture and dimensionality to explore renewal. Karla's art is a testament to the transformative power of nature. She brings the outside world into our realms, allowing us to explore the profound togetherness that binds us to the natural environment. By deconstructing and reassembling sustainably sourced materials, Karla creates a visual language that speaks to the ephemeral nature of life, the beauty of decay, and the intricate layers that compose our collective story.

 

Kantorovich received the Ellies Creator Award 2021 from Oolite Arts, leading to her immersive art installation "AMATE" at Piero Atchugarry Gallery in 2022. She also received an Honorable Mention at the XIX Bienal Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, exhibiting at the Museo Rufino Tamayo and the MACO Museum of Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has showcased her work nationally and internationally, including at the XIX International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, the MFA Exhibition at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Mexican Consulate in Miami, and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.

 

Kantorovich holds a Master of Fine Arts from Florida International University. Actively engaging with the community is of utmost importance to her; she works as a teaching artist aiming to inspire, connect, and provoke meaningful dialogues, embodying the potential for regeneration and growth.

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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2025    WTA International World Textile Art, First Place, Miami, FL

2023    Green Space Award, Green Space, Miami, FL

2021    The Ellies Creator Award, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL

2020    Honorable Mention, XIX Bienal Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

2018    Ratcliffe Incubator Art + Design Fellowship Award, FIU

2018    Susan Applebaum Scholarship Award

2018    Susan Applebaum Scholarship Award

2018    Urban Studios Leadership Program, FIU

2018    Visual Arts Scholarship Award, Women in the Visual Arts

EDUCATION

2017 – 2019 

Master of Fine Arts, Florida International University, Miami ,FL

2015 – 2017     

Problem Solving in Painting, Darby Bannard, University of Miami, FL

2003 – 2005     

Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media, Mario Rangel Studio, Mexico City, Mexico

2003 – 2005     

Composition and Perspective, Modern Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

1993 – 1997     

Bachelor in Arts, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2025    Agency: Artist and Craft person, Art Lab, The Lowe Museum, Coral Gables, FL

2025    XI WTA International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, MIFA , Miami FL

2023    Displace, Green Space, Miami, FL

2022    XIX Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

2021    XIX Bienal de Pintura  Rufino Tamayo,  Museo Centro Cultural Mexiquense             Bicentenario, Mexico City, Mexico

2019    LAB 13 ART CONTEST, Selected Artist, Piazza Di pietra, Rome, Italy

2017    First Street Gallery MFA National Competition, New York, NY 

2017    Florence Biennale, XI International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy

2017    White Jeans, Washington Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

2017    Open Art Miami, Artrium Gallery,Wynwood, Miami, FL

2017     In One’s Element, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL 

2017    8th All-Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL 

2016    10th Annual MASTERPIECES , Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH  

2016    Annual Juried University of Miami Exhibition, CAS Gallery, Miami, FL 

2016    National Wet Paint MFA Biennial, Chicago, IL 

2015    Hope Help Nepal Mural, Spectrum Miami Art Show, Miami, FL 

2015    IBIS House exhibition, University of Miami IBIS House, Pinecrest, Miami, FL

2015    University of Miami Juried Exhibition, UM Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, FL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025     El hormiguero, Laguna Mexico, Mexico City

2024    Stratified Gestures, Dimensions Variable, Miami FL

2024    Simetria domestica, The Bass Museum, Miami FL

2024    Oolite Arts in the Gardens, Pinecrest Gardens, Miami, FL

2024     It’s Time to Slow Down, 180 Maiden Ln, New York, NY

2023    You are Here, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL

2023    Punto de Inflexión, Casa EME, Mexico City, Mexico

2022    Subverting Materials, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, Miami, FL

2022    In the Company of Women: At Large, LnS Gallery, Miami, FL

2022     Book Bound, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

2022    El Hilo Conductor II, Mexican Consulate in Miami, Miami, FL

2022    Casa Nueva, Far Contemporary Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2021    Talking Threads: Dialogues with Weavers and Knotters of South Florida, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL

2021    64 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse: Fama & Guests Quilt, The Camp Gallery, North Miami, FL

2021    BEFORE/AFTER Unveiling the Creative Process, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL

2021    Seeds of Connection, Kendall Art Center, Miami, FL

2021    Women of Vision Exhibition: South Florida Women Artists at Large, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Doral, FL

2021    Works On Paper, The In Art Gallery, Online

2020    40 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse, The CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL

2020    Art Herstory, Glenn Hubert Library, FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, North Miami, FL

2019    RISK, MFA Exhibition Frost Art Museum, FIU, Miami, FL

2019    International Women's Month Art Exhibition, Michael Ann Russel, Jewish Community Center, Miami, FL 

2018    Shape-Shifting, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL 

2018    The Variety Show, Laundromat Art Space, Miami FL 

2018    A Taste for Art, Turnberry Isles Miami, Aventura, FL 

2017    City Remix, KER Gallery Art Projects, Miami, FL

2017    I.R.M.A., Florida International University, Miami, FL 

2017    Fractured Affinities, KER Gallery Art Projects, Miami, FL 

2016    Wirtz Gallery, First National Bank of South Miami, Miami, FL 

2016    Magical Thinking, University of Miami Wynwood Gallery, Miami, FL 

2015    New Works: University of Miami, CAS Gallery, Miami, FL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024    Because you Lived, FIU Washington gallery, Lincoln Road,  Miami FL

2022    Ámate, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FL

2020    Rewriting, Mexican Consulate in Miami, Miami, FL

2020    Reclaiming Poetry, The CAMP Gallery, North Miami, FL 

PUBLICATIONS

2024    Burnaway 

"In the Studio with Karla Kantorovich" https://burnaway.org/daily/in-the-studio-with-karla-kantorovich/

2024     Bold Journey

Meet Karla Kantorovich https://boldjourney.com/meet-karla-kantorovich/

2022     Art Magazine

Luxe, Interiors + Design MIAMI , Natural Connection ,May / June 2022  www.luxesource.com 

2019     Interview

NY ART NEWS   Karla Kantorovich: My Art is a Way of Finding Peace in Chaos, Unity from Fragments December 2, 2019, by Monica Herrera.

2019     Printed Catalogue

Malamegi LAB 13 International Art Contest Mostra finale 28 Settembre / 11 Ottobre 2019 . 28 Piazza Di Pietra Fine Art Gallery Roma. 28 Piazza Di Pietra - Fine Art Gallery Palazzo Ferrini-Cini Piazza di pietra 28 00186, Roma www.28piazzadipietra.com 

2019     Art Magazine

Aesthetica, The Art & Culture Magazine, Issue #90, August/ September 2019 www.aestheticamagazine.com, Page 156.

2019     Online Interview

ArtSeen365 talks to @karlakanto MFA Graduate @fiuart @frostartmuseum, May 2019.

2018     Art Magazine

Studio Visit, Volume 44, The Open Studio Press, January 2018, Page 90.

2017     Online Newsletter

MFA Candidate Selected to Participate in 2017 MFA National Competition,  August 2017, Florida International University CARTA.

2017     Printed Catalogue

INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, XIth Edition EARTH Creativity & Sustainability, September 2017. Page 315.

2017     Newspaper Article

Inauguran 'Confluences' en Wynwood, con obras premiadas en Concurso Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, El Nuevo Herald, November 30th, 2017.

2016 Art Magazine

National Wet Paint MFA Biennial, Poets Artists, Issue #71, February 2016  GOSS183 Publishing House.

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