About

Born in California to French-American parents and raised in Mexico, Charlotte Lea Mignot Hodges — known as Chacha — creates work that explores magical realism at the intersection of language, culture, and continents. Working across mediums, her practice translates emotion from heart to hand, hand to paper, and paper to viewer.

Trilingual and trained in creative writing with a Bachelor of Science from The New School in New York City, Chacha integrates narrative into her visual work, using words as a foundation for color and stories as form.

Across paint, photography, and writing, she layers reality with abstraction, creating pieces that feel familiar yet subtly extraordinary, inviting viewers to notice the spaces where reality and imagination meet.

Chacha’s work is intimate and evocative, reflecting both personal and universal experiences and creating a lasting emotional connection.

Charlotte Lea Mignot-Hodges
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Art: @chachasstudio Photos: @chacha.m.hodges

Publications:

1.

Asian Geographic
Issue #131
Photographic work

2.

Photographers Without Borders Issue #14
Essay and photographic work

3.

Photographers Without Borders Issue #10
Photographic work.

4.

12th Street Journal Piel de Iguana
Fiction Peice

5.

Analogue ForeverMyths and Fabels
Photographic Work

6.

P Magazine JournalPaola
Photographic Work

Exhibitions:

1.

Broadcasting from Home
(group exhibition) Byron Bay Lychee Farm,
Byron Bay, Australia, June, 2025

The Sky Was Heartbroken