June Canedo de Souza is a painter. She works with sculpture and performance when necessary. She is interested in the diachronic development of abstraction, how it evolves, transforms, and gathers new meanings across cultures and time. She’s particularly drawn to abstraction as an embodied, sensorial, and socially grounded language, where form, line, shape, color, and composition are not mere representations of experience, but are constituted by and of our perceptual engagement with the world.
Recent projects and exhibitions include those at the Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles; Salon ACME, CDMX, On View at The Kitchen, and at MIMO in New York. She is a 2025-2027 Core Fellow (Texas), a 2025 MacDowell Fellow, a 2024-25 session artist at Recess in New York, a 2025 Kahn Mason SIP Fellow at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York, and a 2024-26 Hamiltonian Fellow in Washington D.C. She received an M.F.A. from The Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College and is an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
While at MacDowell, she worked on a set of large-scale paintings and tested several prints. Working in Putnam Studio, moving between painting and printing, "allowed for an atmosphere where accidents became a part of the process". There was an intuitive transfer of line and composition between works on paper and the canvas, which established a very physical and immediate quality to the work.
