Karina Yanes
Gainesville, FL
CeramicsMixed Media
Karina Yanes is a Puerto Rican-Palestinian-Midwesterner ceramic artist based in Gainesville, FL. She creates and pieces together ceramic multiples, fragments, and tiles with collaged surfaces that hold onto traditions, icons, architecture, and language from her family's oral histories. Her practice highlights how cultures are carried on through repetition, daily gestures, and acts of care — reflected in her work through tedious, repetitive making and careful craft. Yanes holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Florida and a BA from Denison University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with forthcoming solo exhibitions at Art Center Sarasota and Morean Center for Clay.
The Process
Background
Education
- 2025MFA, Studio Art (Ceramics) — University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- 2022Post-Baccalaureate — University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- 2017BA, Studio Art & Communication — Denison University, Granville, OH
Exhibitions
- 2026Between Two Groves (Forthcoming) — Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL
- 2024We Never Thought We'd Be Here — 4Most Gallery, Gainesville, FL
- 2026NCECA Annual: Absence Takes Form (Forthcoming) — Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI
- 2025All We Ate Was Watermelon — University Gallery, Gainesville, FL
- 2025Beacon — Human Rights Gallery at The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, UT
- 2024Fresh Squeezed: Emerging Artists in Florida — Morean Center for Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Residencies
- 2025Artist in Residence — ACRE, Steuben, WI
- 2024Summer Residency — Craigardan, Elizabethtown, NY
- 2023Open Studio Residency — Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Awards
- 2024NCECA Graduate Fellowship — Richmond, VA
- 2024Penland School of Craft Higher Education Partners Scholarship — University of Florida
