REDCAT held an opening art party fr  Les soñadores by Guadalupe Maravilla on September 13, 2025. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Maravilla transformed REDCAT into an environment for healing and storytelling.

REDCAT Guadalupe Maravilla

The artist was born in El Salvador, but then he fled the country at the age of eight. Maravilla did this as an unaccompanied minor to escape the violence of the twelve-year Salvadoran Civil War. He reunited with his family in the United States. As an adult, Maravilla has survived cancer. In fact he believes the disease was caused the childhood traumas of war, migration, exile, and living in the US undocumented. Throughout this new exhibition, Maravilla retraces his personal journey as a migrant while connecting it with the journeys of others, offering a site for ancestral healing and collective care.

Guadalupe Maravilla, Luz y Fuerza, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and P·P·O·W, New York.

This exhibition is curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Programs.

The exhibition is funded in part with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation.

Special thanks to Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen and PPOW Gallery.

About REDCAT

The CalArts’ downtown center for contemporary arts, REDCAT is a multidisciplinary center for the visual and performing arts in Los Angeles. Through performances, exhibitions, screenings, and events, REDCAT presents new and innovative work across the arts, both from LA and around the world.

On view: September 13, 2025 – December 19, 2025

What: RedCat, Guadalupe Maravilla
Where: RedCat, 631 West 2nd Street, LA, 90012
When: Running through December 19, 2025
Website: https://www.redcat.org