Luz Carabaño (b. 1995, Maracay, Venezuela) lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work centers on visual encounters, perceptual and sensorial shifts. Carabaño works primarily in small-scale oil paintings on shaped supports, as well as drawings on paper, handmade books, ceramic objects, and photographs. Rooted in close observation, her work distills fragments of the visible world into forms that hover between recognition and abstraction.
She received a BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2017 and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include iluminaciones, Nina Johnson (Miami, 2024); antesis, Super Super Markt (Berlin, 2024); delineaciones, Hannah Hoffman (Los Angeles, 2024); encuentros, Hannah Hoffman (Los Angeles, 2023); sombras, Lulu (Mexico City, 2023); rastros, Larder (Los Angeles, 2022); Unfoldings, april april (New York, 2022); and Ni Aquí, Ni Allá, Dimensions Variable (Miami, 2019). Carabaño was the 2021 recipient of UCLA's Helen Frankenthaler Award in Painting.
She received a BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2017 and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include iluminaciones, Nina Johnson (Miami, 2024); antesis, Super Super Markt (Berlin, 2024); delineaciones, Hannah Hoffman (Los Angeles, 2024); encuentros, Hannah Hoffman (Los Angeles, 2023); sombras, Lulu (Mexico City, 2023); rastros, Larder (Los Angeles, 2022); Unfoldings, april april (New York, 2022); and Ni Aquí, Ni Allá, Dimensions Variable (Miami, 2019). Carabaño was the 2021 recipient of UCLA's Helen Frankenthaler Award in Painting.