Joana P. Cardozo is a Brazilian visual artist based in Los Angeles and Sao Paulo. Her art practice is rooted in rituals and spirituality, exploring ideas of mortality, domesticity, and identity through photography, mixed media, installation, and performance. Her photographs create unconventional portraiture by examining the relationship amongst domestic spaces, their inhabitants, and their objects. Her installations discuss the futility of human attachments in an
impermanent world. Cardozo has won numerous awards and has most recently exhibited at Bareiss Gallery (Taos), photo L.A. (Los Angeles), Texas Contemporary Art Fair (Houston), Foto Relevance (Houston), Klompching Gallery (New York), San Francisco Bay International Photo Show (San Francisco), and Rencontres d’Arles (France). She graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2015 and holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Cardozo is represented by Foto Relevance in Houston.
Image credit: Leka Mendes
Solo Exhibitions
2022
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA - "Above All Else I Want to See"
2020
Bareiss Gallery, Taos, NM – "The Naked Hours - 56 Live Performance Hours"
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA - "The Naked Hours - 100 Hours Live Performance"
2019
Foto Relevance, Houston, Texas - "Domestic Fiction"
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
MFA Post Graduate Show curated by Amy Kahng, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles (upcoming)
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA – “Made in Brazil”
2021
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA – “International Exhibition" juried by Debra Klomp Ching and Darren Ching
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA - "Crossed Wires"
Santa Clarita City Hall Gallery, Santa Clarita, CA – “Color is Your World”
Feeler Gauge Festival, Virtual Screening curated by Jennie Park and Fabian V. Euresti
2020
Foto Relevance, Houston, TX, "Quarantine Blues"
Imagine Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX- “2020 Print Auction Exhibition”
photo L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2019
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX
Foto Relevance, Houston, Texas - "1000 + 1"
2018
Klompching Gallery, New York, NY - "Commorancy"
San Francisco Bay International Photo Show
Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France - "FOCUS photo l.a. exhibition"
Kaunas Photo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
FestFoto 11th International Photography Festival, Porto Alegre, Brazil
ICA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - "Tokyo Foto Awards Winners Exhibition"
Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY – “Let There Be Light (And Shadow)”
SxSE Gallery, Molena, GA - "Still Lifes"
2017
Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - “LensCulture Print Show”
Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM - “8th Annual Self Portrait Exhibition"
Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - “Cut/Paste”
2016
Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany - “Borderless: In Perspective”
Galeria Oriente, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - "Gabinete Contemporâneo de Curiosidades"
Paraty em Foco 12th International Photography Festival, Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photoville, Brooklyn, NY - "The Future Perfect"
Artprize, Grand Rapids, MI
International Center of Photography, New York, NY - “The Future Perfect”
Rio II Gallery, New York, NY - "Uptown Arts Review"
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - "Generations X | RAZZLE DAZZLE"
2015
Filter Space, Chicago, IL – “Abstract”
International Center of Photography, New York, NY - “Tipping Point”
Grants, Awards & Residencies
2022
ChaNorth Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY (August)
Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC (July)
Nick England Intercultural Arts Project Grant, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
Interdisciplinary Project Grant, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
2021
The Bartman Fund Award, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
The Dean’s Fund, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
CERF+ COVID-19 Relief Grant, Montpelier, VT
Hermes Artes Visuais Residency, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Lightning Fund, Los Angeles, CA
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Grant, San Antonio, TX
Lillian Disney Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2020
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, NY
Fundação Nacional de Artes – Funarte, Prêmio RespirArte, Brazil
NYFA and Anonymous Was A Woman Emergency Relief Grant, New York, NY
The Bartman Fund Award, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
The Dean’s Fund, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA
2019
Lillian Disney Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2018
FOCUS photo l.a. - Top 20 Finalists exhibited as part of the at Les Rencontres de La Photographie in Arles, France
San Francisco Bay International Photo Show - Gold Medal Award Winner
TIFA - Tokyo International Foto Awards - Silver and Bronze Prizes, Fine Art/ Abstract and Fine Art/ Collage
2017
Critical Mass Finalist
Soho Photo Gallery National Competition - Honorable Mention granted to Blueprint One - Self-portrait
Moscow International Photo Awards - Honorable Mention granted to Blueprints, category Fine Art/Abstract
2016
First Place awarded to Blueprints - Paraty em Foco 12th International Photography Festival, Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Participant of the 2016 New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program
Third Fine Art Photography Awards - Professional Nominee, categories Abstract and Conceptual
Moscow International Photo Awards - Honorable Mention granted to Blueprints, category Fine Art/Abstract
2015
Juror’s Choice Award granted by Debra Klomp Ching, Co-Owner of Klompching Gallery - Filter Space, Chicago, IL
Moscow International Photo Awards - Honorable Mention granted to Blueprints, category Abstract
Curatorial Projects
2017
International Center of Photography, New York, NY - “Hidden Narratives” - Assistant curator
2016
Photoville, Brooklyn, NY - “The Future Perfect” - Co-curator
International Center of Photography, New York, NY - “The Future Perfect” - Co-curator
Press
2022
Hyperallergic, Caroline Ellen Liou. May 16, 2022
https://hyperallergic.com/731264/at-calarts-mfa-open-studios-failure-is-an-option/
2020
The Taos News. Tempo Magazine. June 4-10, 2020
2019
Better Photography Magazine. September 2019. Vol 23
2018
Foto Relevance Online – Commentary on Domestic Fiction – October 17, 2018
Fraction Magazine – Issue 110, May 10th Anniversary Issue
Let There Be Light (and Shadow) - Published by Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2017
F-Stop Magazine. Home. Issue #85 October - November 2017
Lenscratch. Fine-art photography daily journal. Issue of June 3, 2017
Musée Magazine. Photography magazine. Issue of June 28, 2017
2016
Die Angst Magazine. Berlin-based photography magazine. Issue #2 June 2016
L’ceil de la Photographie. Digital magazine about photography published daily. Issue of April 9, 2016
2015
F-Stop Magazine. Where I Live. Issue #73 October - November 2015
SHIFT 10 - Published by International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Education
2022 MFA, Art: Photography & Media - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, USA