About Llorona Luna

Llorona Luna (b. 1998, San Antonio, Texas) is a multidisciplinary, classically trained artist, having studied from 2012-2017 at the North East School of the Arts and the Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University. Luna has always been passionate about the arts, but didn’t find her true voice until 2025, nearly five years after escaping a violent relationship that almost led to her untimely death. After fleeing the Pacific Northwest and traveling the South and the Midwest, she aimed to rebuild her life and artistic practice with the support of her friends, spirituality, and community care.

Working across a range of media, Luna’s practice embraces experimentation and material symbolism, while treating her practice as both confession and invocation. Her work often incorporates unconventional materials, including lipstick applied to canvas, alongside mixed and multimedia elements that speak to any given piece. By transforming objects historically associated with femininity and beauty into tools of expression, Luna challenges cultural expectations placed upon women through a lens of the macabre, reclaiming these materials as instruments of agency. Luna’s compositions frequently layer texture and symbolic imagery to create emotional visual testimonies, spaces where her memory and healing coexist. Luna asserts herself as a visionary who honors vulnerability as a source of resilience, power and creates to remain in constant dialogue with herself. Luna harbors a dedication to communicate what haunts, and in this way functions as a ritual; an offering and act of defiance in a culture of silence.

Today, you can find Luna creating work surrounded by friends, advocating for marginalized communities, painting windows and murals for small businesses, writing poetry and screenwriting, vending at local markets with her loving husband, and working with clients and collectors that believe in her vision.