Andres Carranza

Andres Carranza is a Costa Rican artist born in 1975 in San Jose who works across video, installation, sculpture, and painting. Trained as an architect, he treats material and space as central elements of his practice. He lives and works between Costa Rica and New York. He represented Costa Rica at the 25th Sao Paulo Biennale and won the second Grand Prize at the 2nd Central American Biennale. His paintings are described as gestural, symbolic depictions of the surrounding environment. In 2014 he held a residency at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, where the PoliFauna exhibition of his paintings ran from May 11 to June 11. He was also a 2014 resident at Residency Unlimited.