About Carlos Heredia

Carlos Akamba Heredia is a California-based artist hailing from Oxnard. Carlos has a BFA in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO). Carlos draws inspiration from his dreams, nature, human connection, and death. His artistic practice is a continual pursuit of a visual language that can convey the innermost aspects of his being.Carlos has been exploring materials such as clay, oil pastel, oil paint, watercolor and ink. He perceives his work as a living organism, a piece of himself that has been reborn. Carlos has shown work at various locations such as: California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts (Davis, CA), Santa Paula Art Museum (Santa Paula, CA) and Guilin China International Woodfired Conference (Guilin, China), H&R Block Artspace (Kansas City, MO).