Interdisciplinary artist Carla Caletti was born and raised in Sonoma County, California and then lived for over 30 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. After living and working for six years in Northern New Mexico, she is now based in New York City.
Caletti has shown her work in commercial and non-profit galleries, created pop-ups, made street art, owned her own gallery, Mining Time Studio” in Madrid, New Mexico, 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 in San Francisco under the curation of René and Rio Yañez. Her first solo exhibition was in 2024 at Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In early 2025, El Zaguán Gallery in the Historic Santa Fe Foundation compound on Canyon Road, held her second solo exhibition, Interior Landscape; Resurrecting Personal Mythology.
In June of 2025, Caletti completed a six-week Advanced Painting Intensive at Columbia University and in July, 2025 she began taking sculpture courses at the New York School of the Arts where she now studies Advanced Sculpture Projects with Carlos Mendoza.
Columbia University Studio, Photo by Joel Jares, 2025