Karla Herencia: Assemblage

Karla Herencia (b. 1985, Costa Rica) is a Peruvian-Costa Rican transdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and manager of cultural and social action projects. Her work explores themes related to the tensions generated by systems of domination, production, and resistance, as well as community feminisms, the (post)natural, and corporeality. Her artistic practice develops from an autobiographical and hybrid approach, constructing narratives with a strong poetic charge through fieldwork, territorial context analysis, material experimentation, and deriva (drifting).

She holds a BA in Art and Visual Communication and a Masters in Project Administration from the University of International Cooperation, with training in Performing Arts and Space Design at the National University of Costa Rica. She is a teacher and researcher at the National University of Costa Rica (UNA ) on topics of innovation, creative industries, active learning and audiovisual archives. She is an academic at the Teaching Research and Artistic Extension Center and was coordinator of the Research, Art and Transmedia Program. Herenecia directed the El Bosque Innovation Habitat project at UNA and continues to develop training projects to promote active learning.

Herencia has exhibited in prominent national museums, including the Museum of Costa Rican Art, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia Museum, National Museum of Costa Rica, Museums of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, National Gallery of the Costa Rican Center for Science and Culture, TEOR/éTica, as well as international museums such as the Carlos Mérida National Museum of Modern Art (Guatemala), Centro León de Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic), among others.