Alonsa Guevara’s work blends reality and fantasy in such a way that her images become a profound meditation on the cycle of life and the power of nature.
A Chilean-American artist (b. 1986, Rancagua, Chile), Guevara's multidisciplinary practice is rooted in oil painting and seamlessly expands into sculpture, installation, sound, and children’s literature. Because her life has unfolded across three distinct countries (Chile, Ecuador, and the United States), she draws upon a rich cultural foundation to explore complex themes of identity, belonging, and womanhood.
Deeply passionate about fostering community and helping fellow creatives thrive, Guevara is the Co-Owner of Bay Ridge Art Space in NYC and Revival Murals in LA.
She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and has been awarded numerous grants and residencies, including the Muralist Award for LAMI & San Pedro Waterfront Arts District in San Pedro, CA; the Tashkeel Art Residency in Dubai; the Eric Fischl ’66 Artist-in-Residence Teaching Program at WNA, USA; the NYAA Fellowship Award; and the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant.
Alonsa's work has been published in Forbes Magazine, Time Out NYC, VICE, and The National News UAE, among others, and has been exhibited internationally, including in China, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Denmark, Argentina, Chile, and throughout the USA. Her most recent solo show, Frutos del Tiempo, was in 2024 at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts in Texas.
PODCASTS
Alonsa Guevara Undraped
In this episode of The Undraped Artist Podcast, host Jeff Hein interviews Alonsa Guevara to delve into her artistic journey, influences, and the vibrant, nature-inspired themes that shape her work. 2025
Episodio 25: Creatividad con Alonsa Guevara
En este episodio de Domingos de Amor Propio hablamos con Alonsa Guevara sobre cómo la creatividad fortalece nuestra salud mental. 2023.
Magical Worlds with Alonsa Guevara
In this episode of Virtual Salon Podcast, Alonsa talks about the need to experiment with her artistic practice and how motherhood has added a new dimension to her work. 2021.
Ep: 25 Alonsa Guevara - Rituals
In this episode of the Art Grind Podcast, Alonsa Guevara shares the fascinating story of her arrival in this country, her artistic education, and her survival as a young artist in New York. 2019.
How to Find Your Art Style and Artist Voice with Alonsa Guevara
In this episode of Down to Art, host Kristy Gordon interviews Alonsa Guevara to explore the evolution of her work, the development of her artistic voice, and the elements that define her style. (2023)
Creative Evolution, Navigating International Residencies, & Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mindset
In this episode of the Create! Podcast, host Ekaterina Popova interviews Alonsa Guevara to discuss her recent trip to Dubai, her experiments with new materials, and her evolving creative process. (2023)
Episode 10 – Art as a Celebration: Interview with Alonsa Guevara.
In this fun episode of the Art & Cocktails Podcast, host Ekaterina Popova interviews Alonsa Guevara to talk about her upbringing in Chile and Ecuador, her move to New York, and the early steps of her artistic career. (2018)
Episode 117 – Alonsa Guevara : The Fruit of Life
In this exciting episode of the John Dalton gently does it...Podcast, host John Dalton interviews Alonsa Guevara to explore her studio practice, creative philosophy, and the ideas that drive her nature-inspired works. (2018)
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Alonsa Guevara
1986, Rancagua, Chile.
EDUCATION:
2014 Master of Fine Arts (MFA), New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA.
2013 Painting Program: Copying at the Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA.
2011 Continuing Education Program (Figure Painting & Figure Drawing), New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA.
2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile.
FOUNDER AND LEADERSHIP ROLES
2023 - Present Co-founder of Revival Murals, San Pedro, CA, USA.
2015 - Present Co-founder of Bay Ridge Art Space, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2006 - 2010 Founder of Taller Matices, Rancagua and Santiago, Chile.
GRANTS - AWARDS - RESIDENCIES:
2024 Muralist Award, APM Terminal & San Pedro Waterfront Arts District, Los Angeles, CA.
2023 Muralist Award, LAMI & San Pedro Waterfront Arts District, Los Angeles, CA.
2022 Tashkeel Artist and Residence 2022 - 2023, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE.
2021 The Blue Review Art Prize, USA.
2020 Eric Fischl ’66 Artist-in-Residence Teaching Program at West Nottingham Academy, USA.
2017 Cuttyhunk Island Residency, USA.
2014 New York Academy of Art Fellowship 2015, USA.
2013 The Michele and Timothy Barakett Scholarship, USA.
2013 Terra Foundation Residency, Giverny, France.
2013 Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, Canada.
2011 First place award, “FEAST", Stamford Art Association, USA.
2010 First place award, Bicentennial Art of Rengo, Rengo, Chile.
2007 Scholarship of Honor, Catholic University of Chile, Chile.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Terra and Bloom, Two-Person Exhibition, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX.
2024 Frutos del Tiempo, Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts, Texas.
2024 Relatos de Origen / Origen Stories, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York.
2023 Counting Leaves, Tashkeel Nad Al Sheba, Dubai.
2021 Apparitions, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York.
2020 Alumbrados por la Misma Luna, Spring/Break Art Show, New York.
2018 Espíritu, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York.
2016 Ceremonies, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York.
2013 FUGITIVAS, Expressiones Cultural Center, New London, CT.
2009 Women's Imprint, Cultural Center of La Reina: Casona Nemesio Antunez, Chile.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 New York Academy of Art Chubb Fellows and Friends, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX.
2025 Contemporary Art Now, Ibiza, Spain.
2025 Emergency Exit , Cohle Gallery, Menorca.
2025 Terra & Bloom, Two woman exhbition with Kerri Menchaca, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX.
2024 Untitled Art Fair, Anna Zorina Gallery, Miami.
2024 Posies, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX.
2024 In Feast or Famine, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA.
2023 Summer Show, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY.
2023 Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE.
2022 New York Latin American Art Triennial, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York.
2022 Made in Tashkeel, Tashkeel Nad Al Sheba, Dubai.
2022 No Nature, Bronx Council on the Arts, New York.
2021 3Dimensional, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen.
2021 The Blue Review Art Prize, Sugarlift, New York.
2020 Apocalypse Now, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen.
2020 WOMAN, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove, Canada.
2020 SIT STILL: Self-portraits in the age of distraction, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York.
2020 Prelude to A Dream, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX.
2018 New York State of Mind, X Gallery, Dalian, China.
2018 Mother and Children, Sugarlift Gallery, New York.
2018 Beyond Figuration, Cheng Xi Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
2017 Punto de Fuga, Arca Mexico Gallery and Museo del Tequila y el Mezcal, Mexico City.
2017 About Face, Southampton Art Center, Southampton, NY.
2017 PALETTE, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO.
2017 28 Grams, Fort Works Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX.
2017 UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN, The Untitled Space gallery, New York.
2016 DUETS, Fort Works Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
2016 INSTALARITY, Q Art Salon, Santa Ana, CA.
2016 Point of Origin, The Lodge Gallery, New York.
2016 Between Us, The Lodge Gallery, Manhattan, NY, USA.
2015 Global Art, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ, USA.
2015 Three Women, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2015 Fellows 2015, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2015 9th Annual Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2015 Small Works, National Museum of Women in the Arts’s Art Shop, Washington, DC, USA.
2014 Protinus, Dacia Gallery, Manhattan, NY, USA.
2011 FEAST, The Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT, USA.
2011 Ruta Artenlamesa, Spanish Cultural Center, Rancagua, Chile.
2010 Where There's Smoke, Museum Casa Colorada Santiago, Santiago Chile.
2008 Mouse’s Head, Museum of Visual Arts, Santiago, Chile.
2008 Live Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile.
2008 Second Hand, Chacras de Coria Museum, Mendoza, Argentina.
2008 Labyrinths of Love and Eroticism, La Reina Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile.
2007 “4 + ii”, Regional Museum of Rancagua, Rancagua, Chile.
2003 Sewell World Heritage, Regional Museum of Rancagua, Rancagua, Chile.
SELLECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2025 Mouty Shackelford, Alonsa Guevara, Artsy Scoop, December
2025 Create! Magazine Issue 49 – The Abundance Issue, January.
2025 Amy Flores, Meet Alonsa Guevara, Bold Journey, February 4.
2024 Glasstire, “TOP 5 Art Events in Texas”, Glasstire, Nov 21.
2024 Interview with Alonsa Guevara, Canvas Rebel, September 12.
2023 Donna Littlejohn, “New San Pedro waterfront mural draws accolades from community”, Daily Breeze, Dec 26.
2023 Linda Grimes, “New Mural Coming to the Waterfront”, San Pedro Today, Oct 26.
2023 Razmig Bedirian, Tashkeel Artist in Residence Alonsa Guevara, The National News, UAE, April 17.
2022 Purva Grover, Dubai: The stage of cultural diversity, Khaleej Times News Paper, UAE, July 25.
2022 Linsa Alhorani, Alonsa Guevara: My Work celebrates the cycle of life, Sayidati Magazine, Dubai, June Issue.
2021 Katherine HUD, Where Humans and Nature Become One: The Vibrant Works of Alonsa Guevara, Arts Help, Oct 17.
2021 Constanza Falco Raez, Alonsa Guevara | Solo Exhibitions at Anna Zorina Gallery, Flaunt Magazine, February 18.
2021 Alicia Puig, Alonsa Guevara "Apparitions", Create! Magazine, February 3.
2020 Grace Ebert, "Circular Paintings Expose the Fleshy Innards of Halved Oranges, Pomegranates, and Other Fruits", Colossal, October 16.
2020 Rebecca Martin, "Alonsa Guevara: Cornudopia for the senses", Metal Magazine, October.
2020 Ekaterina Popova and Alicia Puig, Book: “The Complete Smartist Guide: Essential Business and Career Tips for Emerging Artists”, August 24.
2020 Liz Adams, “20 Most Important Female Artists of 2020”, The Blue Review, March 3.
2020 Sarah Cascone, “9 of the Most Wildly Creative Ways That Artists Transformed an Office Building Into an Art Wonderland for SPRING/BREAK 2020”, Artnet News, March 4.
2018 Ekaterina Popova, “The Beauty and complexity of the natural world”, Create Magazine, December Issue.
2018, Ekaterina Popova, Art as a Celebration: Podcast Interview with Alonsa Guevara, Create Magazine, July 26.
2018 Jane C Hervey, "How Alonsa Guevara navigates social media, taboos and sustaining her art”, Forbes, July 8.
2018 Jake Goldbas, "Alonsa Guevara Review", Jiveflash, May 24.
2018 Kim Power, “5 Visionary Shows To See This Spring”, The Blue Review, May 23.
2018 Marcela Catalán, “Rancagüina abre exposición individual en Galería Anna Zorina de NYC”, El Rancagüino News Paper, May 17.
2017 Claudia Romeo, “Artist who lived in a rainforest for 7 years paints incredible fruit portraits”, Business Insider, November 30.
2017 Ekaterina Popova, "Alonsa Guevara: Desire and Painting The Paradoxes of Life", Create Magazine, Oct 4.
2017 Annie Armstrong, "These Full-Filled Paintings are Ripe (in more ways than one)", Creators VICE, June 25.
2017 Stephanie Eckardt, “See how 15 Women Artists are reacting to Donald Trump”, W Magazine, January 7.
2016 Yacine Fall, "Art Zealous’ 30 Under 30-ish: Part 1", Art Zealous, September 20.
2016 Andy Smith, "Alonsa Guevara’s Lush Oil Paintings Offer Imaginary Rites", Hi-Fructose Magazine, August 25.
2016 John O’Hern, “Artistic Expressions”, American Art Collector, May issue.
2015 (T)here Magazine, Volume 15, New York, October Issue.
2015 Lisa Marsova, "Threw Woman at Anna Zorina Gallery”, Arte Fuse, New York, NY, September 22.
2015 Anika D, "Threw Woman exhibition at Anna Zorina Gallery”, Wide Walls, New York, NY, September.
2015 René Soto, "Alonsa Guevara", Latin Colors Magazine, Stamford, CT, August Issue.
2015 Sabrina Wirth, “Labouring over Fruit”, Art Wirth, New York, NY, August.
2015 Howard Halle and Heather Corcoran, "New York's most important New Artists", Time Out NYC Magazine, New York, NY, June 16.
2015 Carlos Ampuero, Patricia Novoa, Francisco Schwember, Book: “Pintura Chilena Contemporánea: Práctica y desplazamientos disciplinares desde la Escuela de Arte UC”, July 30.
2014 Gerhard Maier, “Contemporary Art New York: New Gallery Shows On Lower East Side”, DriveByCuriosity, October 26.
2014 Kate Messinger, “Best of MFA Grands: New York Academy of Art”, The Wild, May 29.
2014 Natalia Sasso, Revista M, Las Últimas Noticias, Chile, March 14.
2013 Sharma Howard, “Alonsa Guevara shows a new brand of beauty”, The Day News Paper, New London, CT, February 22.
2013 Andy Thea, “Scribble Artist interview with Alonsa Guevara”, Scribble, December 9.
2011 María Dolores Jaramillo, “Trayectoria Cultural”, Tell Magazine, Chile, November Issue.
COLLECTIONS:
Seavest Collection.
Majudia Collection, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal.
Weissman Family Collection.
The Quattlebaum/McCaughey Art Collection.
New York Academy of Art Permanent Collection.
H.H Sheikha Lateefa bint Maktoum Private Collection, Dubai.
Alexander S. C. Rower, Calder Foundation, New York.
Numerous Private Collections.
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025 Painting Workshop: Fractals of Memory, Sicily Art Retreat, Sicily, Italy.
2024 Painting Workshop: Fruit Portraits, Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts, TX, USA.
2023 Community Mural Painting Instructor, Los Angeles Maritime Institute, San Pedro, CA, USA.
2023 Oil Painting from Life, Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE.
2023 Plein Air: Acrylic & Oil painting, Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE.
2022 Painting Workshop: Portraits of Nature, Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE.
2022 Painting Workshop: Self Portrait, Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE.
2022 Acrylic Painting Techniques Using Photo References, Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE.
2022 Oil Painting Techniques Using Photo References, Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE.
2022 Monthly Art Critique Sessions: The Crit Group, Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, UAE.
2016 - 2019 Advance Painting Techniques, Bay Ridge Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2015 - 2018 Drawing and Painting, Bay Ridge Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2017 Plain Air Painting Workshop, Eastchester High School, Untermyer Gardens, NY, USA.
2017 Painting Workshop: The Magic of Still Life, New York Academy of Art, NY, USA.
2010 Portrait Painting, Continuing Education Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile.
2007 - 2010 Painting teacher at the Matices Atelier, Santiago and Rancagua, Chile.
2008 Muralist and instructor at Fundación Hogar de Cristo's Orphan Home. Work with children.
VISITING ARTIST & TALKS
2024 Visiting Artist and Talk, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA.
2023 Artist Talk and Q&A, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.
2023 Artist Talk and Q&A, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.
2023 Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour, Tashkeel Alserkal, Dubai, UAE.
2022 Artist Talk, FN Design, Dubai, UAE.
2022 Visiting Critic & Artist Talk, Sharjah Ladies Club, Sharjah, UAE.
2022 Artist Talk and Q&A, House of Wisdom Cultural Center, Sharjah, UAE.
2022 Visiting Critic & Artist Talk, Al Safa Library, Dubai, UAE.
2021 Visiting Artist and Talk, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
2018 Visiting Artist: Life painting & Talk at Five Senses Festival, Washington, CT, USA.
2017 Visiting Artist & Talk, Eastchester High School, Untermyer Gardens, NY, USA.