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Joanna Keane Lopez (b. 1991, Albuquerque, NM) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores adobe, wood, paper, stone, textiles, and photography. Her work engages traditional earthen architecture, craft practices and archival research to examine the intersections of land, architecture, history, and materiality. Inheriting adobe building methods from her family in New Mexico, Keane Lopez continues the craft legacy of enjarradoras and adoberas— women who specialize in the traditional craft of earthen architecture. Recovering and reimagining building practices and craft histories through sculpture, installation, and educational workshops allows her to investigate themes of memory, fragmentation, post-colonial materiality, vernacular architecture and the nuclear industry. Projects such as Thrice Layered (2024), Batter my heart, three-person’d God (2024), and The Hurt and Love of Chamisal (2023) examine the impact of militarization, environmental trauma, and generational shifts in land use within the historical, social and ecological contexts of the American West.
Keane Lopez has exhibited nationally at institutions which include: Lisson Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, The Momentary of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, Sarasota Art Museum and has been supported by the Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.