About
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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.
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.