Ana Vanessa Urvina

Ana Vanessa Urvina (born in Caracas, in 1982) is a visual artist based in Miami, Florida. She has dedicated her life to the study of art theory and to the creation and practice of art. Since 2017, the main theme of her work is the nature of the Tropics ―its shapes, colors, and meanings. Leaves, trees, skies, and the sea are transformed through her brushstrokes, colors, and shapes. Her work includes different techniques like paintings, sculptural acrylic boxes, art installations, artist’s books, and more recently her new brand of mirrors.

Urvina earned her bachelor’s degree in the School of Fine Arts at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and later a master’s degree in Artistic Production, specialization in Visual Arts, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. She worked as a professor at a couple of universities in Caracas, Venezuela, for several years. In 2015 she participated in the Advanced Intensive Painting Course as an artist resident in the School of the Arts at Columbia University in New York; since then, her work mainly revolves around the exploration of the Tropics.

She has participated in several art shows (both individual and collective shows), art fairs, and public installations in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Spain, and the United States.

More recently, her work has taken a step from bidimensional works to more sculptural and installation pieces, and also to the creation of objects of design, like her own line of colorful mirrors permeated with their unique aesthetics, which are designed and assembled by the artist herself.