Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer Joanna Grasso works with clay, language, line, and site responsive performance and installation to explore the psyche and universal intelligence (UI). Through intuitive practices, Grasso creates objects, compositions, meditations, and dioramas as part of her creative practice. She is often inspired by mythology, alchemy, and cloud watching, as well as traditions, rites, and rituals from around the world.

Some past projects include working with La Biennale di Venezia, The Bronx Museum, LVMH, Row DTLA, The Huntington Beach Art Center, number_5 GmbH, the Red Earth Society in Zambia, Switzerland, and Haiti, and working as part of an international artist collective in South Africa and Italy.

Grasso studied at Instituto Lorenzo de’Medici in Florence, Italy, then went on earn her BFA in Painting and Drawing from Dominican University of California, San Rafael, and MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies from California State University, Fullerton where she was awarded the Leo Freedman scholarship.

Photos by Jason Margos or the artist.