Kandy G. Lopez

Kandy G. Lopez (born 1987, New Jersey, United States) is an Afro-Caribbean American artist whose multidisciplinary portrait practice explores cultural identity, visibility, power, and representation. Working across fiber, painting, glass, and mixed media, Lopez examines how race, class, gender, and self-fashioning shape the lives of marginalized communities through monumental portraiture, layered materials, and tactile surface. Lopez studied painting and marketing/management at the University of South Florida and later earned an MFA in painting from Florida Atlantic University in 2014. Her work often engages portraiture, community, swagger, resilience, and the politics of being seen, using hook mesh, yarn, acrylic, and hand-built surfaces to consider how identity is both constructed and defended in everyday life. Their work has been exhibited at ACA Galleries, Riverside Art Museum, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, the Orlando Museum of Art, and the Armory Art Center. She has received the 1858 Prize from the Gibbes Museum of Art and the People’s Choice Award from the Orlando Museum of Art. Kandy G. Lopez lives and works in South Florida.