Conversion

"Yes, you're changing. But the best parts of you are still here."
– Amina Cain, Indelicacy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020)
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Calla Donofrio (b. 1990, Torrance, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2013. Solo exhibitions: “Conversion,” Cheremoya, Los Angeles (2025); “Fear,” California Institute of the Arts (2013). Selected group exhibitions: “Out of Body,” Not Real Art (online) (2025); “Drawings & Prints,” Salmagundi Club, New York (2022); “Figurative Show,” Salmagundi Club, New York (2022); “Women Artists Show,” Dacia Gallery, New York (2022); “Comfort & Gratitude: Excellence in Traditional Fine Art,” California Arts Club, Los Angeles (2021); “Line Art Attack,” Hive Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); “Tiny Visions,” Hive Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); “Text Me Up,” Tate Modern, London (2012); “Bringers of the Light,” Gallery 1313, Toronto (2012); “Love Art,” Tinystage Gallery, Los Angeles (2012); “Not An Exhibition: The UK’s First Witch House Art Showcase,” Lumiere Gallery, London (2012); “Social Being,” Hudson Gallery, San Pedro, CA (2011); “Rough Around the Edges,” Windsor Art Center, Hartford, CT (2011); “Illuseum,” Pastee Co. Gallery, San Pedro, CA (2011).

Kento Saisho (b. 1993 in Salinas, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. The artist earned his BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, in 2016, where he was a Windgate-Lamar Fellowship recipient from the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC. Solo & two-person exhibitions: “Conversion,” Cheremoya, Los Angeles (2025); “Things,” Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles (2022); “Mansion Apartment Shack House,” Gallery North, Penland, NC (2020). Selected group exhibitions: “limina, lumina,” Reisig and Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles (2024); “Best in Show,” Pamplemousse Gallery, Richmond, VA (2024); “Smokey Trails,” Rhett Bharuch Gallery, Los Angeles; “Skin, Holes, and Hovels,” Reisig and Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles (2023); “Fjord Anniversary Show,” Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia (2023); “WITNESS | holding time,” Penland Gallery, Penland, NC (2023); “Queer + Metals,” Hereford College, Hereford, UK (2022); “A Tender Presence” (traveling) Gallery 2052, Chicago, Alma’s, Richmond, VA, and Penland Gallery, Penland, NC (2022); Small Acts: The Craft of Subversion, San Diego, CA; “NOMAD Art Show,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (2021); “Dutch Invertuals: True Matter,” Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL (2021); “What We Inhabit If Not Our Bodies,” Finlandia University, Hancock, MI (2021); and “Softer than Thought,” Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC (2019). Saisho completed the Core Fellowship at the Penland School of Craft from 2018-2020. He was a recipient of the inaugural Emerging Artist Cohort from the American Craft Council in 2021 and the Career Advancement Grant from the Center for Craft in 2022.