Gustavo Godoy was born in Ontario, California. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Godoy is currently the Chair of the Visual Art department at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles.

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Gustavo Godoy is an artist based in Los Angeles whose work explores space, structure, and the ways materials shape meaning. Influenced by early experiences working alongside his father and frequent trips to his great-grandmother’s home in Tijuana, Mexico, Godoy developed a lasting interest in construction, intuitive making, and the symbolic potential of everyday building materials such as wood and concrete.

His practice spans sculpture and ceramics, ranging from abstract, climbable wooden structures and large concrete forms to optical objects that frame a constellation or a fleeting moment within a landscape. Godoy’s work invites physical and perceptual engagement, encouraging viewers to move through, around, and within constructed space.

Recent investigations have taken him to ancient sites in Central Mexico and the Yucatan, where his work draws connections between architecture, cosmology, mythology, and his family’s journey to Southern California. Through formal and material exploration, Godoy considers how objects and structures come to mark places as sacred, ceremonial, or in flux, becoming vessels for shared memory and evolving histories.