Karla Caprali
Artist, Animator, Illustrator, Director, and Filmmaker
Instagram: @karlacapraliArtist, Animator, Illustrator, Director, and Filmmaker
e-mail: Karla@caprali.com
B. 1971. Belem, Para, Brazil
Summary:
Karla Caprali is an animator and filmmaker born and raised in Belem, a city known as the edge of the Amazon’s rainforest. She relocated to the United States in 2001, and since then she has been showing her work in art galleries, art institutions, and art spaces and also attended numerous artists in residency programs throughout Norway, Sweden, and Finland. She is an artist who began her career as a painter. As she went through the process of layering and drawing, she became interested in the art of moving images. Thus, she changed direction to become an animator. She has shown her work and attended Artists In Residence Programs in Brazil, the United States, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Besides oil painting and drawing, she creates her animations by handcrafting drawings to finally color and animate them using computer software and a 24-inch Wacom tablet.
Karla Caprali is an animator and filmmaker born and raised in Belem, a city known as the edge of the Amazon’s rainforest. She relocated to the United States in 2001, and since then she has been showing her work in art galleries, art institutions, and art spaces and also attended numerous artists in residency programs throughout Norway, Sweden, and Finland. She is an artist who began her career as a painter. As she went through the process of layering and drawing, she became interested in the art of moving images. Thus, she changed direction to become an animator. She has shown her work and attended Artists In Residence Programs in Brazil, the United States, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Besides oil painting and drawing, she creates her animations by handcrafting drawings to finally color and animate them using computer software and a 24-inch Wacom tablet.
Selected Group Shows and Screenings, 2014 - 2023:
2023 - Film South Of 5th is an official selection for the 40th edition of Miami Film Festival, Miami, Florida 2022 - Screening of the film “South Of 5th”, Soundscape Park, at New World Symphony, Local Love Letters by Oolite Arts and city of Miami Beach - December, Miami, Florida 2022 - Screening of the music video “Eternal Haze”, Silverspot Cinema, Filmgate Film Festival - October, Miami, Florida 2022 - Screening of the film “Light”, Silverspot Cinema, Filmgate Film Festival - August, Miami, Florida 2022- Screening of the film “Light”, Arsht Center, Miami Film Festival - March, Miami, Florida 2021 - Miami Film Festival, Knight Made in Miami Award, Shortlisted October 2022 - Screening of the film “Light”, Deering Estate, Miami Short Festival – October – Miami, Florida 2021- Screening of the film “Light”, Regal Cinemas South Beach, Miami Short Film Festival - November, Miami Beach, Florida 2021- Miami Short Film Festival Short animation Light 2021 Nominee for best animation. 2021- Serlachius Gallery, October 27th, Mäntä, Finland 2021 - Ciconia Art Collection, March – November, Miami FL 2020 - Home Sweet Home, Hartvest Project, Miami, FL 2019 - Pinta Art Fair – Pinta Applied Arts Booth, Miami, FL 2019 - Women Of Vision – DORCAM, Miami, Florida 2018 - Women Weavers - Ideobox Art Space, September- November, Miami. 2018 - Ser, Habitar, Imaginar - Concrete Space, September- November, Miami. 2018 - Land + Body = Scape - NARS Foundation, May - June, New York City, 2018 - No Constraints to Beauty - Pompano Beach Arts Center, March 20th, Pompano Beach, Fl. 2018 - Land + Body = Scape - The 55 Project, Wynwood, March 10th, Miami. 2017 - Take your Art For A Walk - Bossa Gallery, December 3 to 10 - Miami Art Week, Miami 2017 - Power Tools, Memories sized - Textile Museum, September 14th -Rydal, Sweden 2017 - Being There - October 2nd, Messen Ålvik, Norway 2017 - Women Behind Threads - April, Bossa Gallery, Miami 2016 - Functional - Pinta Art Fair - Art Basel (December 1 - 4 ) Miami, Fl 2016 - Reduction - Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville North Carolina, NC 2016 - Whitespace Biennial - Mordes Collection, West Palm Beach, Fl 2016 - Intersections - Deering Estate Stone House - Miami, Fl 2015 - Hollywood Art Center - 7th Art Biennial - Hollywood, Fl 2015 - BaCa - Pompano Beach, Fl 2014 - Art Fallout - The Girls Club - Fort Lauderdale, Fl 2014 - Connections - Gold Coast Cultural Center - Great Neck, New York
Selected Private and Public Collections:
The Girls Club Collection – Fort Lauderdale, FL Viviane Spinelli - Brazilian Film Festival, Miami, FL Myra Wexler – Miami, FL Pamela Cohen - Art Miami, Art Wynwood, Art Hamptons, Acqua Miami Sylvester Cancer Center Miami, FL Juan Luis Toro - U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management Wynwood Art Center - Miami,FL David Grutman, Miami Marketing Group and Arkadia - Miami Beach Michael D’Andrea, Macalusos - Miami Beach Williamsburg Art Center Williamsburgh Museum - Brooklyn, New York Phillipe Valls - USB Bank – Miami, FL
Art Residencies:
Serlachius Museum Residency, October 2021, Mäntä, Finland Kunstnarhuset Messen - September, October, 2017 Ålvikvegen 1065, 5614 Ålvik, Norway. www.khmessen.no , +47 954 25 625 Deering Estate – 2015 to 2016. 16701 SW 72nd Ave, Miami, FL 33157 www.deeringestate.org (305) 235-1668 Kunstnarhuset Messen - September, October, 2015 Ålvikvegen 1065, 5614 Ålvik, Norway www.khmessen.no +47 954 25 625 Bakehouse Art Complex - 2011 to 2015 561 NW 32nd St, Miami, FL 33127 www.bacfl.org (305) 576-2828
Awards and Grants: 2022 – Local Love Letters by Oolite competition award and grant ($5,000), December, Miami Beach, Florida 33138 2022 – MIA Stipend, City Of Miami ($2,000) 2022 – Official selection of Miami Film Festival 2021 - The Ellies, Creator Award and grant ($6,000), Oolite Arts, October, Miami, Florida 2020 - Winner of Brazilian Press Awards by Focus Brazil, Category: multidisciplinary art practice 2019 - Winner of Brazilian Press Awards by Focus Brazil, Category: Installation 2019 - Certificate Of Appreciation by the City of Doral 2017 - A.I.R. Norway Art Council and Messen 2017 - Artist Access Grant - Miami Dade County Department Of Cultural Affairs and Tigertail Productions 2015 - Hollywood Art Center Biennial - Honorable Mention to work “Caution” 2015 - A.I.R. Norway Art Council and Messen 2015 - Artist Access Grant - Miami Dade County Department Of Cultural Affairs and Tigertail Productions 2014 - Art Serve and Art Brazil Honorable Mention - The Consulate General Of Brazil In Miami
Selected Solo Shows:
2017- The Memorial Beach – Messen Foundation, Norway
2016 - Arts Garage Gallery, Delray Beach, Florida
2015 - Paper Stories For White Rabbits - Gumenick Family Gallery - Cultural Arts Center - Richmond ,Virginia
2015 - Sweet And Sour - Swenson Gallery - Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood, Florida
2014 - Paper Stories For Trees And Unicorns - Pinecrest Gallery - Miami, Florida
2009 - Amarin Cafe - WAH Center, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center - Brooklyn, NY
2016 - Arts Garage Gallery, Delray Beach, Florida
2015 - Paper Stories For White Rabbits - Gumenick Family Gallery - Cultural Arts Center - Richmond ,Virginia
2015 - Sweet And Sour - Swenson Gallery - Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood, Florida
2014 - Paper Stories For Trees And Unicorns - Pinecrest Gallery - Miami, Florida
2009 - Amarin Cafe - WAH Center, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center - Brooklyn, NY
Books:
2019 – The Egg, written and illustrated children’s novel 2019 - Places She’d Go, written and illustrated interactive novel 2019 - The Last Tree, poem by author Kit Kelen 2018 - Radio, written and illustrated graphic novel
Filmography: 2020 - Times Like These, animated music video 2020 - Light, animated short film 2021 - Eternal Haze, animated music video 2022 - South Of 5th, animated short documentary 2023 - Erosion, animated short film
Publications and links:
2022 - Kino Magazine, Poland
2022 - https://www.wlrn.org/art-and-culture/
2022-12-14/filmmakers-create-local-love-letters-to-miami-beach
2022 - https://www.acheiusa.com/Noticia/filmgate-festival-apresenta-curta-metragem-da-brasileira-karla-caprali-110324/
2021 - https://thewallymcwaltersonshow.podbean.com/e/s2-ep1-karla-caprali/
2021 - https://www.socialitefiascomusic.com/post/complicated-animals-release-single-times-like-these
2020 - https://girlsclubcollection.org/drawing-closer-karla-caprali/2020/
2022 - https://www.wlrn.org/art-and-culture/
2022-12-14/filmmakers-create-local-love-letters-to-miami-beach
2022 - https://www.acheiusa.com/Noticia/filmgate-festival-apresenta-curta-metragem-da-brasileira-karla-caprali-110324/
2021 - https://thewallymcwaltersonshow.podbean.com/e/s2-ep1-karla-caprali/
2021 - https://www.socialitefiascomusic.com/post/complicated-animals-release-single-times-like-these
2020 - https://girlsclubcollection.org/drawing-closer-karla-caprali/2020/