Carla Herrera-Prats has passed away. She passed away at the age of 46. Carla was a Mexican conceptual artist and curator, whose archival and aesthetic research focused on dynamics of the gift economy, labor theory, and their affective and technical modes of cultural expression.
Carla Herrera-Prats died of complications due to breast cancer.
She was forty-six. Born in Mexico City in 1973, Herrera-Prats earned her BFA at the city’s Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (“La Esmeralda”) and her MFA in photography at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. She was a Whitney Independent Study Program fellow in New York, and in the last decade served as director and board member of the SOMA Summer program in Mexico City.
Invested in institutional solidarity, critical pedagogy, and a collaborative ethos, Herrera-Prats made work with Anthony Graves as Camel Collective, which they cofounded in 2010.