Larissa De Jesús Negrón
Primarily focused on the interpretation of nostalgia through the narrative of isolation in the confines of interior spaces. Larissa invites the viewer to get lost in reflection and existentialism through her richly textured, stylistically varied, at times disorienting spaces and portraits.
Larissa De Jesús Negrón is a multidisciplinary artist who yearns for introspection and finds self evaluation through her intimate and often otherworldly spaces and portraits. Her stylistically varied and neo-surreal imagery is linked to the artist’s curiosity of the subconscious and psychoanalysis. Through her work, Larissa has a profound interest in healing and addressing her childhood and adult trauma. These mundane moments of despair, fear and excitement are brought to the eyes of the viewer as a cathartic way to connect. Existential themes such as the expectations of women in society, the vitality of nature, using humor as a coping mechanism and the power of storytelling as a tool for healing are all present in her work.
Larissa was born and raised in Puerto Rico. Throughout twenty years, she lived in several municipalities such as Guaynabo, Trujillo Alto and Caguas. Her commitment to art making began as early as nine years old, where she excelled in the drawing classes her mother signed her up for. Larissa went on to study middle school and high school at Central High, the most well regarded specialized art school in Puerto Rico. Graduating with the highest honor the school has to offer, Larissa continued her education at The School of Plastic Arts in Old San Juan where she began majoring in Drawing and Painting. After two years, she transferred to Hunter College in NYC where she got her BFA degree with high honors in 2017.
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The Artists Depicting the Power and Strangeness of Breasts
Zoë Lescaze, The New York Times Style Magazine, 16 May 2023 -
A Tonic to the Hyper-Anxious State of Human Existence
Lydia Wilford, Curatorial Affairs, 22 Mar 2023 -
Anxiety-inducing paintings exploring our permanent state of distraction
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Art shows to leave the house for this June
Ashleigh Kane, Dazed , 2 Jun 2022
B. 1994, Puerto Rico, Based in New York, USA
Education
2017 BFA Painting and Drawing, Hunter College, NYC
Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘Satori’ L21 Gallery, Spain
2022 Kiaf SEOUL/ Solo Booth, Cassina Projects, Seoul, South Korea
2022 ‘Tiempo al Tiempo’ Solo booth at Salón Acme art fair / Regular Normal Gallery, CDMX
2021 ‘Detrás del Sol’ More Pain Gallery, NYC
2020 “Moving On” Sabroso Projects, NYC
Group Exhibitions
2022 ‘Continuous Present’ Two person show, Lorin Gallery, Los Angeles
2022 Untitled Art Fair, Selenas Mountain, Miami
2022 ARTFORCHANGE Presentation, The Armory Show, NYC
2022 ‘What it could be’ Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 ‘This is not surrealism’ RegularNormal at Dinner Gallery, NYC
2022 ‘Have we met?’ Tesoro Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 ‘Cluster II’ Herve Bize Galerie, France
2022 ‘Le Corps-Paysage’ Bim Bam Gallery, Paris, France
2022 ‘Life in an Ivory Tower’ curated by Jack Siebert, NYC
2022 Better Go South Gallery Inaugurate exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 ‘Femininity’ Lorin Gallery, LA
2022 ‘And this skin of mine, to live a second time’ Guts Gallery, London
2022 ‘Disembodied’ Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest
2022 ‘Illuminated Body’ Spring Break art fair / Peripheral Space, LA
2022 Platform online exhibition, Unit London Gallery, UK
2021 ‘TWENTYFOUR’ Bricks Gallery, Copenhagen
2021 ‘DM me’ Kravets Wehby Gallery, NYC
2021 Independent Art Fair / Regular Normal Gallery, NYC
2021 ‘Summer Summer Group Show’ Ross and Kramer, New York
2021 ‘Damas Damas Damas Damas’ The Green Gallery, Wisconsin
2021 ‘House Parté’ organized by Carlye Packer, Palm Springs
2021 ‘Drool’ Kravets Wehby Gallery, NYC
2021 ‘A New Art World’ Guts Gallery, London
2021 ‘Hissing Haze’ In Lieu Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 ‘Shining in the low tide’ Unclebrother, New York
2021 ‘Night Watch’ Winter Street Gallery, Massachusetts
2021 ‘Relámpago Caribeño’ Apartaco, CDMX
2021 ‘Roof On Fire’ Holland Project Gallery, Reno,NV
2021 ‘These opalescent dreams of mine’ Selenas Mountain, NYC
2021 ‘Striving After Wind’ Chapter New York, NYC
2021 ‘Speech Sounds’ Real Pains Gallery, NYC
2020 ‘The Privilege of Getting Together’ Regular Normal Gallery, NYC
2020 Future Fairs / Selenas Mountain, NYC
2020 Art Verona / Monti8 Gallery, Italy
2020 ‘Imagining Reality’ Future Gallery, Berlin
2020 ‘100 Drawings from Now’ The Drawing Center, NYC
2020 ‘Documento’ Embajada Gallery, Puerto Rico
2020 ‘YB2P’ Cantinca Tabacaru, NYC