Calida Rawles

b. 1976, Wilmington, Delaware; lives in Los Angeles

Featured Exhibitions
Calida Rawles. On the Other Side of Everything, 2021. Collection Perez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Perez, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and PAMM Ambassadors for Black Art. © Calida Rawles. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London
exhibition

Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides

Calida Rawles envisions water as a space for Black healing and reimagines the African American community beyond the stories we already know as a part of the United States’ collective history. Merging hyperrealism, poetic abstraction, and the cultural and historical symbolisms of water, Rawles creates unique portraits of Black bodies submerged in and interacting with…