Fabiola Carranza
Birthdate: 1983
Birthplace: Costa Rica
Based location: Vancouver, BC
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Biography
Fabiola Carranza (b. 1983)
Fabiola Carranza is a Costa Rican-born visual artist, writer and educator educated in Vancouver, BC. She/They holds a Bachelor in Media Art from Emily Carr University and a Master of Fine Art from the University of British Columbia. Carranza is a PhD Candidate in Art History, Theory and Criticism. At UCSD, Carranza's specializations are in Art Practice Concentration and a Critical Gender Studies. Carranza's has participated in numerous residencies at Nes (Skagaströnd, Iceland, 2024), HospitalField (Arbroath, UK, 2017), SOMA (CDMX, México, 2017) and at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Alberta, 2014, 2010).
Their art practice has included work in text-based public sculpture, photography, installation, and experimental videos that explore themes of migration, language, and cultural memory. Through material and scholarly inquiry, Carranza examines the intersection of personal histories and collective narrative often recontextualizing everyday materials to interrogate systems of meaning and representation. Carranza's play The Mexican Husband, an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's one-act play "The Jewish Wife" (1937), was recently exhibited at Mandeville Art Gallery, at UCSD (San Diego, California, 2025), at Vinegar Contemporary (Birmingham, Alabama, 2022) and as part of the 3rd Kamias Triennial, (Manila, Philippines, 2020); notable solo exhibitions include Sentences and Clocks at Blinkers (Winnipeg, Manitoba 2019); and Aedes Hallucinates in the Jungle at Malaspina Printmakers Society (Vancouver, B.C., 2016). Carranza has participated in many collective exhibitions at non-profit and artist-run spaces across Canada and the United States, most recently in Uncertain Terms at SME Gallery at University of California, (San Diego, California, 2025).
The Mexican Husband (play)
Performer Mio Aseremo holding a copy of the play, Manila, 2020
Photo by Fabiola Carranza
Courtesy of the artist
Solo exhibitions
Fabiola Carranza Solo Exhibition The Mexican Husband, an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's one-act play “The Jewish Wife” (1937), Vinegar Contemporary, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 2022
Fabiola Carranza Solo Exhibition Sentences and Clocks, Curated and Presented by Blinkers Art and Projects Space, Winnipeg, Canada, 2019
Fabiola Carranza Solo Exhibition Aedes Hallucinates in the Jungle, presented by Malaspina Printmakers, Malaspina, Vancouver, Canada, 2016
Fabiola Carranza Solo Exhibition Pale. Pale. Pale. Pale. Pale. Pale, A 22 week public art text-based project, The Crying Room Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
Collective exhibitions
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition Uncertain Terms, curated by Jeffrey Stuker, Visual Arts Grad Exhibition, SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering Building, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2025
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition Graduate Open Studios, presenting “The Mexican Husband” (Un Marido Mexicano), Curated by Ceci Moss, Director and Chief Curator of the Mandeville Art Gallery and Professor of Practice, Visual Arts, Mandeville Art Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, USA, 2025
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition In No Uncertain Terms: Work by Art Practice PhD Students at UCSD, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2025
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition EVENT 2: Fabiola Carranza’s The Mexican Husband - a reading, presented by Kamias Triennial Special Projects, Supported by The Canadian Collective of the Arts, Project 20, Manila, Philippines, 2020
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition Art Basel Miami 2019, presenting Messianic Clocks, Art Metropole Booth, Art Basel Miami, Florida, USA, 2019
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition A Public Appearance: Artists from the Art Practice PhD Concentration, Curated by Anthony Graham, Associate Curator for MCASD, University Art Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, California, 2019
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition Days of Reading: Beyond the State of Affairs, Curated by Sarah Nesbitt and Jenifer Papararo, Plug-In Institute, Winnipeg, Canada, 2018
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition We’re Almost Finished, Single Sentence Projects, Curated by Zeb Zang, Maillardville, BC, Canada, 2017
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition Studio Residency Program, Presenting Sysco-Seer 1948, Contemporary Art Gallery, Burrard Marina Field House, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2016
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition Seven Signs, curated by Eric Fredericksen, Waterfront Park, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2016
Fabiola Carranza Collective Exhibition Festival of Minimal Actions, Curated by Thomas Geiger, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2015
Interviews
Fabiola Carranza video interview at Dos Mares Artist Residency, 2020
Presentations
Fabiola Carranza presentation Visual Arts Doctoral Research Colloquium, UCSD, San Diego, USA, 2024
Fabiola Carranza panel discussion "Artists Writing, Artist's Writing," Volume Montreal, 2021
Fabiola Carranza presentation Free Drawing School Online Challenge, Part of the Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency Programme, Online event, 2020
Published work by Fabiola Carranza
Fabiola Carranza article A Humble Hum of Modern Equivalences: On Liz Magor and Elizabeth McIntosh, published by The Capilano Review Magazine, March 2021
Fabiola Carranza article What Ever Happened to Felicia Montealegre?, Published by Canadian Art Canada, Winter Issue “Tangents”, 2021
Fabiola Carranza Twenty Years of Despacio 2008–2028, Review by Fabiola Carranza, edited by Jens Hoffman, published by Dent-De-Leone, Published by C Magazine, 2019
Fabiola Carranza On Ling’s Nascar, Review by Fabiola Carranza and Steffanie Ling, Vancouver: Blank Cheque 2016, Published by C Magazine, 2017
Fabiola Carranza Episode 8: Fabiola Carranza and Michelle Helene MacKenzie on Althea Thauberger, Shared by Simon Fraser University SFU Galleries, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
Published work about Fabiola Carranza
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Press release
Fabiola Carranza Press release Border Craft, edited by Mandeville Art Gallery, UCSD, published by e-flux Education Magazine, 2025
Fabiola Carranza Fabiola Carranza, Jessica Eaton, Nicole Kelly Westman | Fulhame's Map, by Josef Jacobson, Published by Emily Carr University Events, 2018
List of Grants, Awards and Projects
Fabiola Carranza Nes Artist Residency, International, multi-disciplinary artist residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, 2024
Fabiola Carranza Free Drawing School Online Challenge, Hospitalfield, UK, 2020
Fabiola Carranza Hospital Field Residency, Interdisciplinary Residency, Hospital Field, Arbroath, UK, March 2017
Fabiola Carranza Residences Internationales, HOA Cultural Society, Dos Mares International Art Research Center Program, international Residency, 2016 (In French)