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    • 2025 >
      • Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski
      • B-LA-M CDMX 2025 >
        • Mariam Alcantara
        • Cherie Benner Davis
        • Kata Unger
        • Thomas Whittaker Kidd
        • Jim Ovelmen
      • Tryst Art Fair 2025
    • 2024 >
      • B-LA-M Berlin 2024
      • Tryst Art Fair 2024 >
        • Mariam Alcantara
        • Ricardo Harris-Fuentes
        • Thomas Whittaker Kidd
        • Siobhan McClure
        • Jim Ovelmen
        • Greg Rose
        • Andrew West
      • "​El sol de la noche" - QiPO Art Fair CDMX 2024 >
        • QIPO 2024 (espanol)
    • 2023 >
      • Tryst Art Fair 2023
      • SWAB Art Fair Barcelona 2023 >
        • Cherie Benner Davis
        • Ricardo Harris-Fuentes
        • Thomas Whittaker Kidd
        • Jim Ovelmen
        • Lisa DIane Wedgeworth
        • Andrew West
        • Mariam Alcantara
        • Keith Walsh
      • "Dissonantia" - QiPO Art Fair CDMX 2023
      • "Dissonantia" - QiPO CDMX 2023 (Document)
    • 2017-2019 >
      • "Mare Tenebrarum" - SWAB Art Fair Barcelona 2019 & Satellite Art Fair Austin 2019
      • "Zoul Zurvivor" - Satellite Art Fair Miami 2017 >
        • "Zoul Zurvivor" - QiPO Art Fair CDMX 2019
        • "Zoul Survivor" Reprise, Los Angeles 2018
    • 2015-2017 >
      • Being Earnest Shackleton '15-'17
      • The Hut at Cape Royds 2016
      • The Hut at Cape Royds 2017
      • Being Earnest Shackleton '15-'16
      • "In Between", Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Los Angeles, 2016
      • "Town", Inaugural Exhibit, Los Angeles 2015
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  • Past Exhibitions
    • 2025 >
      • Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski
      • B-LA-M CDMX 2025 >
        • Mariam Alcantara
        • Cherie Benner Davis
        • Kata Unger
        • Thomas Whittaker Kidd
        • Jim Ovelmen
      • Tryst Art Fair 2025
    • 2024 >
      • B-LA-M Berlin 2024
      • Tryst Art Fair 2024 >
        • Mariam Alcantara
        • Ricardo Harris-Fuentes
        • Thomas Whittaker Kidd
        • Siobhan McClure
        • Jim Ovelmen
        • Greg Rose
        • Andrew West
      • "​El sol de la noche" - QiPO Art Fair CDMX 2024 >
        • QIPO 2024 (espanol)
    • 2023 >
      • Tryst Art Fair 2023
      • SWAB Art Fair Barcelona 2023 >
        • Cherie Benner Davis
        • Ricardo Harris-Fuentes
        • Thomas Whittaker Kidd
        • Jim Ovelmen
        • Lisa DIane Wedgeworth
        • Andrew West
        • Mariam Alcantara
        • Keith Walsh
      • "Dissonantia" - QiPO Art Fair CDMX 2023
      • "Dissonantia" - QiPO CDMX 2023 (Document)
    • 2017-2019 >
      • "Mare Tenebrarum" - SWAB Art Fair Barcelona 2019 & Satellite Art Fair Austin 2019
      • "Zoul Zurvivor" - Satellite Art Fair Miami 2017 >
        • "Zoul Zurvivor" - QiPO Art Fair CDMX 2019
        • "Zoul Survivor" Reprise, Los Angeles 2018
    • 2015-2017 >
      • Being Earnest Shackleton '15-'17
      • The Hut at Cape Royds 2016
      • The Hut at Cape Royds 2017
      • Being Earnest Shackleton '15-'16
      • "In Between", Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Los Angeles, 2016
      • "Town", Inaugural Exhibit, Los Angeles 2015
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Mariam Alcantara

​Mariam Alcantara is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator whose deeply intimate work navigates the emotional textures of personal relationships, rituals and immigration, woven into the layered urban landscape of Los Angeles.

A 2018 MFA graduate in New Genres from UCLA, Mariam’s multidisciplinary practice blends video, felt, and embroidery, all grounded in over two decades of painting expertise.

Artist Instagram @MariamLovesMiguel
Mariam Alcantara in studio
Mariam Alcantara Waiting Series, months of 2025, wool, cotton, silk, each appx 50 cm round, on-going
Mariam Alcantara, January 2025, Waiting Series, Hand felted wool, cotton, silk, 51 cm
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