Cecilia Navin is an adopted Spanish-Canadian-American artist whose work explores space, presence, and transformation. She creates large scale installations, textiles, and writing-based works that invite viewers to navigate environments shaped by memory, grief, and the subconscious.

Her practice reflects both personal and collective chaos. Coming of age as part of the class of 2020, Navin experienced the pandemic, the LA uprisings, and ongoing political instability. These moments of uncertainty inform her work, which transforms dislocation and tension into tangible, immersive experiences.

Influenced by women of the Surrealist movement, Navin uses writing and material experimentation to make subconscious thought visible. Her installations often function as thresholds or passageways, spaces the audience must physically move through, reflecting internal exploration and the search for belonging.

By engaging with identity, cultural displacement, and collective experience, her practice transforms uncertainty and chaos into environments of engagement, inviting viewers to confront the unseen and find connection within complex, shifting spaces.