Self-taught artist, Carla Caletti was born and raised in Sonoma County, California and then lived for over 30 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Solo trips to New Mexico began in 1985 in her “68 Volvo named Lilian. She moved to New Mexico just before Covid and is now based in Santa Fe.
Though Caletti began working later in life as an artist, she has shown her work in commercial and non-profit galleries, created pop-ups, made street art, and curated group exhibitions including, “One World, Many Faiths; Altars by Bay Area Women Artists”. For seventeen years she was a Día de los Muertos installation artist at SOMArts Cultural Center is in San Francisco. Her first solo show was in April of 2024 at Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
