Solo exhibitions

2024 - Mnemosyne, Rude Gallery, Lakewood, CO

2020 - Liminal, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY

group exhibitions

2025 - In the Urban Landscape, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, CO

2025 - Mug to Mug, Friend of a Friend Gallery, Denver, CO

2024 - Fall Graduation Exhibition, Philip J. Steele Gallery, Lakewood, CO

2024 - Advanced Painting Exhibition, Spivak Gallery, Lakewood, CO

2024 - Sentimental, Spivak Gallery, Lakewood, CO

2024 - Terra / Earth / Ground, CORE Art Space, Lakewood, CO

2023 - A Fond Farewell, Spivak Gallery, Lakewood, CO

2023 - Salon des Refuses, Spivak Gallery, Lakewood, CO

2023 - 60th Annual Student Exhibition, Philip J. Steele Gallery, Lakewood, CO

2023 - Collective Show, RemainReal Fine Art Gallery, Denver, CO

Bio

Charla Ann was born in 1993 in Casper, Wyoming, where she began her artistic journey at an early age. She and her twin sister discovered their love for art in grade school. After graduating high school, Charla moved to Denver, Colorado, in 2014. She returned to school to pursue her passion for art and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in 2024.

artist statement

Have you ever looked at a picture, and the only memory of it is of the image itself? After the death of my mother, there are only a handful of memories that I can remember from my childhood without any photographs to accompany them. I look at my childhood photos and feel as if it were not me in them. Through various mediums focusing on manipulation of photographs, I explore the complex relationship between memory and time. I seek to understand how grief can reshape recollection and how it can control the sentiments about my past. The trauma of losing a loved one at a young age has driven me to work tirelessly to regain the memories I've lost, attempting to recreate what cannot be recovered.