Karla Lazo

I come from a family of poets and artists.

Art is something that fizzes in my blood, I felt this since my childhood.

I remember the walks with my parents through the park "Los Caobos" in Caracas, Venezuela.

There we also visited the National Art Gallery a couple of times. When I saw the paintings on the wall, I felt a weight on my heart and great respect.

I had always been withdrawn, introverted, and alone, I enjoyed doing something. In my early youth I started to work with ceramics, I identified myself with mass/volume, but I always dreamed of painting to overcome the fear of a white canvas.


Still, a lot of time passed before I started painting.
For years I had a great passion for copperplate engraving, I remember coming to the workshop in the morning and leaving it in the evening.


The workshop was in Caricuao and was an extension of the University "Simon Rodriguez" in Caracas. It was run by Consuelo Méndez, a graphic artist.


In Mérida-Venezuela, where I now live, I make the engravings in my workshop and print them in the workshop of the art school, supported by professor Luis Matheus. At the same time as my visits to the workshop in Caricuao, I studied at the Graphic Design School Neumann. I have to...

1993 "UNAV Engraving Workshop." Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida

1992 "Course with Guillermo Frómeta Engraving." UNAV.
1992, U.L.A
1989-1990 "Pottery Workshop", Universidad de Los Andes. (U.L.A)

1983-1990 "Private Workshop Labra" Mérida
1982 "Sfara Workshop of Engraving." Simón Rodriguez University. Caracas

1980-1982 Graphic Design, Neumann Institute. Caracas
1977 "Sculpture Workshop" with William Abdullah, the sculptural group "El Buho que masca chimó." Caracas

1975 "Pottery Workshop" with Marina Betancourt. Caracas.

Group Exhibitions
2011 “Venezuelan Artists in Czech Republic” Virtual Gallery. www.latin-art.com.

2011-2010-2009-2007 “Month of the Artist” “Mes del Artista Plástico” Venezuela
2010 “ 30’ Anniversary of Art, in the City Hall of Aragua. Vzla.
2009 “Municipal Art Contest, 50’ Anniversary of Portugal in Venezuela”.

2006 "No Limits", Museum of San Rafael Tabay. Mérida.
2006 "No Limits", Metropolitan School of Art (EMA), Mérida.

2006 "No Limits" Cultural Center "Tulio Febres Cordero," Mérida.
2006 "No Limits" Arte Pueblo Museum, San Rafael de Tabay. Mérida.

2006 "Contest Mayor of Arts and Letters," Cultural Center "Tulio Febres Cordero."

2005 "Contest Mayor of Arts and Letters," The Old Governor...