About

Chalet Comellas, born in Tampa, Florida, is an artist and independent curator who lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work reflects a personal connection to the complex histories surrounding the Latin Diaspora, and she employs expanded forms of painting, sculpture, video, sound, and digital media to engage viewers visually and sonically. Through these experimental and time-based frameworks her studio and curatorial practices seek to illuminate the interplay between materiality, spirituality, and technology.

In addition, Comellas has worked as an Assistant Professor teaching courses focused on contemporary art, drawing, painting, digital design and time-based media. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Florida State University and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Tampa. Currently she is co-curating projects for Unrequited Leisure, an artist-run project that was founded in Nashville, TN. Comellas is the recipient of numerous awards and professional residencies including, Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University in 2020, and top prize in the Digital Media Category at ArtFields in 2018. Comellas' work has been presented at numerous museums, academic institutions, and galleries including the Doral Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Albany Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Colorado College, Florida A&M University, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN; LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY; InLight Richmond, Richmond, VA; EYEDRUM, Atlanta, GA; Terrain Biennial 2021, Chicago, IL; P.S. Satellites: A Project of Prospect 4 New Orleans, and the Miami New Media Festival, which premiered in Miami and traveled to Venezuela, Italy, Aruba, and the Netherlands. As a collaborating artist, Comellas has been invited to exhibit at Flashpoint Gallery in Washington D.C.; Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, NY; and Fountain Art Fair, in Miami, FL. Selected press includes BURNAWAY, Tampa Bay Times, Orlando Sentinel, Style Weekly, Art Spiel, Nashville Scene, and Number Inc. Magazine.