Luciana Guerra

Luciana Guerra is an Argentine visual artist whose practice expands painting beyond the canvas, merging oil and drawing with digital processes, virtual reality, and augmented reality to create immersive experiences that blur the boundaries between the material and the intangible. Trained at the National University of Rosario, her foundation is rooted in the fundamentals of traditional painting, a grounding that gives her technological experimentation its weight and coherence. Her work moves between analogue and virtual without treating them as opposites. Physical paintings are scanned, layered, and reconstructed digitally using customised brushes that replicate the texture of impasto and oil. In recent years, those same paintings have been extended into three-dimensional virtual spaces through VR and AR, inviting viewers to inhabit the work rather than simply observe it. Technology, for Guerra, is not a shortcut but a sensitive prosthesis, a way for painting to keep growing.

Thematically, her practice is shaped by psychological states such as madness, illness, and death, translated into symbolic landscapes and chaotic scenes that function as metaphors for the human condition. Her more recent work adds a political dimension, reappropriating imagery from Western art history, particularly from periods when women were formally excluded from artistic training. Taking canonical works charged with power and hierarchy, she deconstructs and reassembles them through her own body, experience, and time. The gesture is as much a claim as it is a composition. Guerra has been recognised with awards at numerous national salons, including the Fundación Andreani Award at the Palais de Glace, and in 2025 received the Emerging Artists Award from CEC for her animation series Alive. Her work has been shown internationally at Art Basel Miami, NFT.NYC, the Neal Digital Gallery in Beijing, and Artcrush in Brussels, and she has participated in residencies spanning Peru, Berlin, Brazil, Vertical Crypto Art, and the Ethereum Foundation's Infinite Garden during Devconnect in Buenos Aires. Collectors can explore her work on Exchange, Gamma.io, Objkt and SuperRare.