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Ako Castuera is a Los Angeles born and based artist. Her sculpture and textile projects are offerings to intersection and transformation through which play, prayer and mutuality unfold.

Ako’s lively engagement of materiality is guided by slow growing relationships with living bodies of land, material, kin and neighbors of every kind. Her works with clay, soil and fiber embody  practices of attunement that shed light on alternatives to the individualistic, extractive agenda demanded by modernity. 

Work by Ako has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California Art, the Japanese American National Museum of Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the Vincent Price Art Museum. She is also known for her work as a story artist on ‘Adventure Time’ and Emmy-Award winning director of the children’s series, ‘City of Ghosts’.