June Canedo de Souza works with painting, sculpture, and performance. She received an MFA from The Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and is an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent projects and exhibitions include The Geffen at MOCA, Los Angeles, On View at The Kitchen, New York, and MIMO Gallery, New York. Her books have been acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York University, Harvard University,  the Getty Institute, and more. In 2022 she was a finalist for the Foundwork Artist Prize. She is currently a 2024-25 session artist at Recess, New York, a 2025 Kahn Mason SIP Fellow at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, and a 2024-26 Hamiltonian Fellow, Washington D.C.

My practice is shaped by the gestural and haptic conditions of my upbringing, how the women before me transcended survival. My grandfather once shot my grandmother in the shoulder while she was nursing their son. Does that show up in my hands, belly, or hips? Through painting, sculpture, and movement, I work through the myths I have inherited. Too much testimony for all of the too many questions I have asked. Home is another myth that keeps me curious. The best artists are the immigrant mothers who know that in America, spring cleaning is for dawn driving through the wealthy neighborhoods. That's how you ward off evil spirits and get the good stuff. Every. single. year. we. moved. And every single year I learned new ways one can make do. I think my work is mostly about making and doing with all of the gaps, secrets, betrayals–the novela that was my childhood–titled Love Begins Where Duty Ends.

Press:

https://foundwork.art/dialogues/june-canedo-de-souza

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/memory-channels-june-canedo-de-souza-interviewed/


Contact:

junecdsouza@gmail.com



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