Adrian Avila

I was born in 1989 in Holguin, Cuba and immigrated to the US at age 13. My Cuban-born muralist roots to South Florida dating back to New World School of Arts, a small, selective, nationally recognised magnet school. Eventually, I earned a scholarship to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where I received my bachelor’s degree. Out of college, I started working primarily in editorial illustrations for companies such as Disney and Warner Brothers. A few years later, I moved to Wynwood, Miami to build the foundations of my art career. My studio practice is rooted in an exploration of the timeless self and its relation to the collective consciousness. It draws strongly on my experiences as a Cuban-American who lived different degrees of indoctrination throughout life relating to the expression of femininity, knowledge, and power. As a visual anthropologist I aim to catalogue my journey of unlearning social paradigms while connecting to my spirituality as I create a new visual language for the examination of emotions. The visual language represented by texture, symbols, linear patterns and sacred geometric shapes that represent movement, all connect to illuminate the parallel light that travels in the depths of the discovery of the self.