June Canedo de Souza: All top teeth knocked out at once

June Canedo de Souza (b. 1989, Newark) lives and works in New York. Canedo de Souza is interested in the translation of gestural language and its regional nuances, considering how movement, surface, and color shape meaning. Her work often, though not always, explores how migration is mediated by memory. She is currently a 2025-27 Core Fellow, Texas, a 2025 MacDowell Fellow, New Hampshire, a 2024-25 session artist at Recess, New York, a 2025 Kahn Mason SIP Fellow at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, and a 2024-26 Hamiltonian Fellow, Washington D.C. Exhibitions include All top teeth knocked out at once, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2026, solo, forthcoming); Ángeles Agrela / June Canedo de Souza / Æmen Ededéen / Samantha Joy Groff / Teresa Murta / Daniel Pitín, Nicodim, New York (2026); THE BODY DOES NOT EXPLAIN ITSELF, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2026); Fragments of Presence, Praxis Gallery, New York (2025); Roots Unseen, curated by Yan Yu, Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles (2025); Witness, LaForce x Speciwoman, New York (2025); New.Now, Hamiltonian, Washington D.C. (2025); A River Seeks it’s Source, MIMO, New York (2024); Memory-Material, The Geffen at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022); A Queen Within, Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno (2022); and New Visions, Fotografiska, New York (2020), among others.