Luz Carabaño's small scale paintings explore perceptual and sensorial shifts. Her works, usually in oil on linen that is stretched over individually shaped panels, propose different ways of looking and engaging with images that feel both of this world and internal. Interested in ideas of retracing, fragmentation, and displacement, each painting is a response to sights and gestures that Carabaño encounters. She works through the information in these references and intuitively allows for the image to become something else, an echo, a new form.

Luz Carabaño (b. 1995 in Maracay, Venezuela) lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

Education

She studied at NYU, New York and graduated with a MFA from UCLA, Los Angeles, in 2022.

Exhibitions

Selected solo and duo exhibitions include Super Super Markt, Berlin; Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (both 2024); Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles; Lulu, Mexico City (both 2023); CASTLE, Los Angeles (2022 with Sydney Acosta); Larder, Los Angeles; april april, New York (both 2022); Shin Gallery, New York (2022 with Annette Hur); and Dimensions Variable, Miami (2021).

Carabaño's work has been included in group exhibitions at april april at Nicelle Beauchene, New York; CULT Aimee Friberg, San Francisco (both 2023); in lieu, Los Angeles; Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; Make Room, Los Angeles; Larder, Los Angeles; Calderón, New York; Winton’s, Los Angeles (all 2022); False Cast at BRUCE, Los Angeles; Diablo Rosso, Panama City (both 2021); and Kate’s Little Angel, Los Angeles (2020).

In the studio: Luz Carabaño
Super Super Markt, 2024

Luz Carabaño’s Tiny Cosmos in Paint
Hyperallergic, Renée Reizman, 2023

Luz Carabaño | That Between Object and Understanding
FLAUNT, Annie Bush, 2023

Sweet Holograms
Onda MX, Mariel Vela, 2022

Artist of the week: Luz Carabaño
LVL3, interview by Milo Christie, 2022