June Canedo de Souza is a painter. She works with sculpture and performance when necessary. 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 Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, Salon ACME, CDMX, On View at The Kitchen, New York, and MIMO, New York. She is currently a 2025 MacDowell Fellow, a 2025-26 A.I.R. Fellow at A.I.R. Gallery, New York, 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.
I am interested in the diachronic development of abstraction, how it evolves, transforms, and gathers new meanings across cultures and time. I am particularly drawn to an anthropophagic understanding of abstraction, abstraction as an embodied, sensorial, and socially grounded language, where form, line, shape, color, and composition are not mere representations of experience, but are constituted by and of our perceptual engagement with the world.
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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