Karlo Ibarra

Abstractions

: Ventana #28, 48″ x 48″

: Ventana #29, 48″ x 48″

Flower Vases Series

: Flower vase #89, 60″ x 48″

: Flower vase #86, 60″ x 48″

: Flower vase #88, 60″ x 48″

: Flower vase #85, 60″ x 48″

: Flower vase #87, 60″ x 48″

Palimpsesto Series

: Palimpsesto Series, 14″ x 11″

: Palimpsesto Series, 14″ x 11″

: Palimpsesto Series, 14″ x 11″

: Palimpsesto Series, 10″ x 8″

About Karlo Ibarra

Painter, creator of installations and video artist. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree at Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan in 2005. He obtained First Prize at the sixth edition of the Video Creation and Digital Art Competition in Central America and the Caribbean and in the People’s Choice Award at the Optic Nerve Video Festival e Miami. He has participated in the Biennial of Bucharest (2008), the San Juan Poly-Graphic Triennial of San Juan, Latin America and the Caribbean (2009 and 2012), and in the Moscow International Biennial of Young Art (2010), XIII Havana Biennial (2019). In 2021, Ibarra received The Fountainhead Residency in Miami. His works are part of institutional collections in Costa Rica, United States, Puerto Rico and Argentina. His works display a political and social discourse reinforced by references and allusions to literature. He combines these topics to study situations such as globalization, migration and identity.

Artist Statement

The use of diverse media such as painting, drawing, photography, installation, using texts, maps and other objects mirror my visual approach to urban space and my relationship to the city. Further I often question our cultural and geographical boundaries from a psychological point of view by eliciting certain reflections related to political and social identities. As a result of actions such as walking, observing and identifying the different relationships between individuals and their surroundings, my work brings to focus such subjects as migration, identity and globalization.