Members are invited to join us at DV for an intimate conversation between artist and DV resident Karla Kantorovich and Omar López-Chahoud, independent curator and former Artistic Director and Curator of UNTITLED. The gathering will include a walkthrough of the exhibition and studio. Light refreshments will be served. This event will be held at DV on Monday, October 26, 2026, from 7—9pm.
Karla Kantorovich
Karla Kantorovich is a mixed media artist from Mexico City-based in Miami, FL. She works with paintings, textiles, hand-made paper, and assemblages, leaning into the importance of texture and dimensionality to explore renewal. Karla’s art is a testament to the transformative power of nature. She brings the outside world into our realms, allowing us to explore the profound togetherness that binds us to the natural environment. By deconstructing and reassembling sustainably sourced materials, Karla creates a visual language that speaks to the ephemeral nature of life, the beauty of decay, and the intricate layers that compose our collective story.
Kantorovich received the Ellies Creator Award 2021 from Oolite Arts, leading to her immersive art installation “AMATE” at Piero Atchugarry Gallery in 2022. She also received an Honorable Mention at the XIX Bienal Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, exhibiting at the Museo Rufino Tamayo and the MACO Museum of Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has showcased her work nationally and internationally, including at the XIX International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, the MFA Exhibition at the Frost Art Museum, the Mexican Consulate in Miami, and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.
Kantorovich holds a Master of Fine Arts from Florida International University. Actively engaging with the community is of utmost importance to her; she works as a teaching artist aiming to inspire, connect, and provoke meaningful dialogues, embodying the potential for regeneration and growth.
Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Omar Lopez-Chahoud is the Curator and International Director of Y.ES Contemporary and formerly served as the Artistic Director and Curator of UNTITLED, a position he held since its founding in 2012. He led the curatorial team of UNTITLED through its 10th Anniversary in 2021, shaping its innovative and inclusive approach to contemporary art exhibitions.
As an independent curator, Lopez-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally, including the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. His curatorial projects include “NY/Prague6” at Futura Contemporary Art Center in Prague, Czech Republic, and the critically acclaimed “Lush Life,” which spanned nine New York galleries: Salon 94, Invisible Exports, Lehmann Maupin, Eleven Rivington, On Stellar Rays, Y Gallery, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Collette Blanchard Gallery. He also curated “The Pipe and the Flow” at Espacio Minimo in Madrid, Spain. López-Chahoud has contributed essays to several publications, including the catalogues for Dynasty (2006) and Rewind/Re-Cast/Review (2005). He has participated in curatorial panel discussions at prominent institutions such as Artists’ Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and served as a guest critic at Art Omi in 2007. López-Chahoud holds MFAs from both Yale University School of Art and the Royal Academy of Art in London. He continues to foster meaningful dialogues and opportunities within the international art community as Curator and International Director of Y.ES Contemporary.
He was honored with an IX Nomination in 2024.