Carlos Agredano

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Carlos Agredano (b.1998 Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Agredano utilizes readymade and process-based sculptures to materialize issues of race and inequity, particularly within the context of American urban planning in Southeast Los Angeles. His research outlines how two discriminatory practices — racially restrictive covenants and redlining — influenced the construction of Los Angeles’ public freeway system in the 20th century.

As a Hodder fellow, Agredano plans to work with the High Meadows Environmental Institute to expand his research methods about hyper-local air pollution. Building on Robert Smithson’s concept of the “non-site”—a type of land artwork that indexed specific locations across New Jersey—Agredano aims to create a new land artwork that addresses the absent social and political contexts of the “non-site” in America.

Agredano’s most recent exhibitions include: Por El Rio organized by Clockshop at the Los Angeles State Historic Park (Los Angeles 2024); Scupper, François Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles 2024); Smog Check, at Human Resources Gallery (Los Angeles 2023); Strong Winds Ahead at François Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles 2023); CO, SO2, NO2, O3, PM2.5 and PM10 at the New Wight Gallery (Westwood 2023); and You May Go but This Will Bring You Back at Sculpture Center (New York, 2021). He received his AB in History and Literature from Harvard University and his MFA in Sculpture from the UCLA School of Art.