Karlos Cárcamo (b. 1967, El Salvador) Karlos Cárcamo is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (BFA 97) Hunter College, (MFA 2000) and alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (98). Currently based in Beacon, NY. His work has been exhibited extensively including: The Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum of Contemporary Art, El Museo del Barrio, Hionas Gallery, NY, Galerie Ernst Hiiger, Vienna, Austria; Artists Space, NY, Jersey City Museum, The Aljira Center of Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, El Salvador, BRIC Brooklyn, Collar Works, Alexander Gray Associates and Espacio Mínimo, Madrid Spain.

His work is in private and public art collections that include; The Mario Cader-Frech Collection, El Museo del Barrio, Deutsche Bank Art Foundation, Red Bull Corporate Art Collection, Museo de Arte de El Salvador and The Raina Sophia Museum Permanent Collection, Madrid, Spain. Karlos Cárcamo’s work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, Mass Appeal Magazine and the Village Voice, among other publications. His work was recently seen in “Latinx Abstract” at BRIC Brooklyn Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer.

Statement:
”My work is a hybrid between high and low cultural forms of expression that combine my interest in minimalist abstraction, art history, and Urban Culture. Adopting a formal approach to making art that incorporates ideas found in the constructed nature of Urban Culture such as in Hip Hop, DJ’ing, and graffiti art. I make paintings and sculptures that re-contextualize the language of abstraction as a means of engaging its historical legacy of purity, self referentiality, and exclusion. Subverting narrative within the materiality and process of making the work, elements that reference everyday life while also touching on personal subjective narratives that reflect my own personal experiences and identity.”