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.
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June Canedo de Souza
Rib Bones, oil and acrylic paint on canvas, 40 x 28 in, 2025
Couples Therapy, oil and acrylic paint on canvas, 36 x 21 in, 2025
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June Canedo de Souza is a painter. 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, LA, Salon ACME, CDMX, On View at The Kitchen, NY, and MIMO, NY. She is a 2025-27 Core Fellow, TX, a 2025 MacDowell Fellow, NH, a 2025-26 A.I.R. Fellow, NY, a 2024-25 session artist at Recess, NY, a 2025 Kahn Mason SIP Fellow at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY, and a 2024-26 Hamiltonian Fellow, D.C.
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EDUCATION
2024 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
2024 MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (Bard College), Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2011 BA, College of Charleston, South Carolina
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2025-2027 Core Fellow, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2025 MacDowell Fellow, MacDowell, New Hampshire
2025-26 A.I.R. Fellow, A.I.R. Gallery, New York
2025 Mason | Kahn SIP Fellow (efa Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop), New York
2024-26 Hamiltonian Artist, Washington D.C.
2024-25 Session Artist, Recess, New York
2024 Young Artist List, Cultured Magazine
2022 Finalist, Foundwork Artist Prize
2019-24 Creators Lab, Google, New York
2021 Artist Pick, Smack Mellon, New York
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Fragments of Presence, Praxis Gallery, New York
2025 Roots Unseen, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
2025 Witness, LaForce x Speciwoman, New York
2025 Salón ACME, MIMO, CDMX
2025 New.Now, Hamiltonian, Washington D.C.
2024-2025 Deli Radio, Recess, New York
2024 Sharpe Surface Residue, Spill 180, New York
2024 A River Seeks it’s Source, MIMO, New York
2023 To Broadcast is to Scatter, School of Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
2023 Stage Presence, Milton Avery School of the Arts Thesis Exhibition, Bard College, New York
2022 Every Memory Belongs to a Myth, The Kitchen, New York
2022 Memory-Material, The Geffen at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
SELECTED PRESS
2024 Young Artist List, Cultured Magazine
2023 Dialogues, Foundwork.art
2022 Artist Interview, BOMB Magazine
