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 the mid 80’s in her 1968 Volvo named Lilian. She moved to New Mexico just before Covid and is now based in Santa Fe.
Caletti 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. Caletti’s second solo show in Santa Fe, “Interior Landscape: Resurrecting Personal Mythology” runs January 31 -March1, 2025 at El Zaguán Gallery in the Historic Santa Fe Foundation compound on Canyon Road .
Opening Night at El Zaguán Gallery, 2025