I am a Venezuelan-Canadian artist and designer, born in Caracas in 1965. Shaped by a family history of migration and cultural hybridity, my practice explores identity, memory, and belonging through portraiture.

Trained in graphic design, I built a career in advertising and branding, developing visual systems that shape and reinforce commercial identities. After immigrating to Canada, I returned to painting with a renewed focus on human identity—shifting from constructing brand narratives to examining the lived, embodied self expressed in the face. This transition marked a move from commercial authorship to relational inquiry, where portraiture became a way to explore how migration reshapes both personal and collective frameworks of belonging.

My project IN BETWiN: Stories of Kingston’s Immigrants has been recognized in Canada’s Parliament for its contribution to public dialogue on immigration, and has been exhibited in Canada and internationally in Portugal. Developed through sustained dialogue with participants, the project forms a growing visual archive that emphasizes plurality and the complexity of contemporary Canadian identity.

Now based in rural Ontario, I continue to bridge design and fine art, navigating the space between constructed image and lived experience, personal history and civic presence.