ASHA CANALOS

Asha Canalos is an artist, writer, environmental justice advocate, and herbalist. Her work addresses social and environmental justice; relationships between plants, people, and the land; and resilience / resistance. Canalos’s work develops through research, field work, and collaborative exchanges. This has often included working with frontline communities resisting harmful fossil fuel development. As a trauma survivor, living with PTSD and fibromyalgia, her projects also examine the neurobiological landscape of trauma and recovery, and identify strategies for individual and collective healing. Canalos earned a BA in Visual Arts at Antioch College, and a dual degree MFA in Painting and MS in Theory, History, and Criticism of Art at The Pratt Institute. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she has taught in the University of New Mexico’s Land Arts of the American West, RAVEL, and Art & Ecology programs. Canalos’s artwork has been shown at art venues across the U.S., including The Bronx Museum, Miami PULSE, Pace University, and The Santa Fe Art Institute.