Candelaria Traverso (Córdoba, Argentina, 1991). Her artistic practice emerges from the relationships and experiences she builds within the territories she inhabits. The knowledge systems and practices that connect ancestral times with the present, informal spaces such as fairs and markets, itinerant labor, and displacement are central interests that drive her work. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from UNC.
She completed the Cátedra Libre de Silvia R. Cusicanqui (2023), the ABele program (2020–2023), the EPPAC postgraduate program at UNC (2023), the Diplomatura en Feminismos Comunitarios de Abya Yala (2022), and the Agentes de CIA program (2016).
Among her notable exhibitions are Candelaria Traverso. Chakana (Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 2024; Instituto de América – Centro Damián Bayón, Granada, Spain, March–May 2025; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Florencio de la Fuente, Huete, Spain, 2026); Candelaria Traverso. Aquello que persiste (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, MACBA, 2025); Otro posible es posible (Herlitzka & Co., Buenos Aires, 2024); Antes de América, fuentes originarias de la cultura moderna (Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 2023–2024); El rigor de las formas geométricas (Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection, Miami, 2023–2024); Trama en América (Herlitzka & Co., Buenos Aires, 2023–2024); the 8M Collection exhibition (Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, 2024); Alicia Herrero, Karina Peisajovich y Candelaria Traverso: conceptos y simbolismos abstractos (Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, 2023); Tawa (ArteBA, Buenos Aires, 2022); Confluences in South American Art (Paul Hughes Fine Arts and Herlitzka & Co., London, 2022); and Chakana (Herlitzka+Faria, Buenos Aires, 2019).
Her work has been selected and exhibited in numerous open calls and awards, including the Premios 8M, where she received the Premio Adquisición de Artes Visuales (2022); the Salón Regional de Artes Visuales La Rioja–NOA, where she was awarded Second Prize for her work Sellos (2022); and the Premios Klemm and Premios Andreani (both in 2021), among others. More recently, she received Second Prize in the Fire Arts category at the 112º Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales.
Her work is part of the collections of Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Saint Louis Art Museum (United States), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, as well as significant private collections.
She lives and works in Maimará, Jujuy, Argentina.