Carla Contreras is an Ecuadorian-American multidisciplinary visual artist and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia with a master’s degree in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Informed by the experience of living by the Chattahoochee River area in Roswell, Georgia and sporadic visits to Papallacta, Ecuador -a biodiverse cloud forest region in her hometown, Contreras is interested in exploring the idea of home and existence through contemplative practices in nature. Her two-dimensional and three-dimensional mixed media works on paper, wood, canvas, and resin become a biomorphic visual assemblage of sensorial information gathered from the natural sites that she explores. Contreras is the first artist-in-residence at Norfolk Southern Corp in Atlanta, Georgia since 2021, is currently working on a big public project mural for an important train station in the city and was recently commissioned a public sculpture for SCAD Lacoste in France. Her work is part of the Microsoft Art Collection and has been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), the Hambidge Art Auction, the ART PAPERS Auction, SCAD Art Sales, O/Art and The City Auction, and local contemporary galleries like FreeMarket Gallery, Echo Contemporary, MINT, EYP/100, and Besharat. Contreras has been featured in covers, publications, and reviews for the AJC Journal, ELYSIAN Magazine’s Arts and Culture 2020 issue, Studio Visit Magazine, BURNAWAY, ArtsATL, SHOUTOUT Atlanta, and the VoyageATL Magazine for their “Thought Provokers: celebrating artists & creatives” Series.

You can learn more about her work on the links below:

https://www.wescover.com/creator/carlacontrerasart

http://voyageatl.com/interview/check-carla-contrerass-artwork/

https://www.thehuntressllc.com/carlacontrerasart

https://www.instagram.com/carla.contreras.art/?hl=en

https://www.scadartsales.com/art/artists/carla-contreras https://info.loupeart.com/carla-contreras-artist