Kyla Hansen is an artist based in Los Angeles. She works in a diverse range of media, creating sculptural works that explore narrative, gender and class through the lens of the American West.  

Materially, Hansen’s sculptures incorporate found objects into highly worked “craft” materials such as carved wood, hand-built ceramics, quilted surfaces or cast synthetic materials. Her amalgamations mimic natural forms, blurring lines between the found and fabricated. Many of her recent works delve into narrative archetypes of female, animal, plant, and mineral imagery. Her work employs language and aesthetics of rural and urban environments to explore disparities in perception and experience as the global population shifts from rural to urban.

Hansen (born 1983, Las Vegas NV) received her Master of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University in 2012 and her Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2009. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area including Five Car Garage, The Museum of Neon Art, Torrance Art Museum, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, Eastside International, Western Project, and the UCLA New Wight Gallery. Her work was recently exhibited Internationally at the Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MX and the exhibition Bloody Red Sun of Fantastic LA, a survey exhibition of emerging Los Angeles-based artists, at Piasa Auction House, Paris France. Her work has been recognized in several local and national publications including Modern Painters Magazine’s 24 Artists to Watch in 2013. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA