Artist Statement
My work explores memory, identity, and the emotional narratives that shape our lives.
Working through contemporary figurative painting, I create portraits that exist between memory and imagination. Drawing inspiration from personal archives, photography, observation, and everyday experience, I am interested in the ways faces become vessels for emotion, storytelling, and human connection.
Rather than documenting specific individuals, my paintings investigate the emotional traces people leave behind. The figures that emerge throughout my work often become symbols of vulnerability, resilience, longing, introspection, and transformation. Through portraiture, I seek to create spaces where personal memory intersects with collective experience.
Color plays a central role in my practice. I approach painting intuitively, allowing color, texture, and gesture to guide the development of each work. Saturated palettes, layered surfaces, expressive brushwork, and emotionally charged compositions become tools for exploring states of presence, absence, remembrance, and desire.
Many of my paintings feature women as protagonists not as idealized representations, but as complex emotional presences. Their gazes, gestures, and expressions invite reflection on identity, perception, and the narratives we construct about ourselves and others. These figures inhabit spaces that are simultaneously intimate and symbolic, where memory and imagination coexist.
My practice is rooted in a fascination with the stories that images can hold. I am interested in the moments that cannot be photographed directly: emotions, sensations, fragments of identity, and the quiet histories carried within the body. Through painting, I attempt to make visible what often remains unspoken.
Ultimately, my work is an invitation to pause, remember, and reconnect with the emotional landscapes that define our shared human experience. Through color, portraiture, and intuition, I seek to create images that feel both deeply personal and universally resonant.
About Me
Where Memory Becomes Image
Winibey López is a Venezuelan contemporary visual artist based in Miami, Florida. Through expressive figurative painting, she explores memory, identity, femininity, and the emotional narratives that shape human experience.
Drawing inspiration from personal archives, photography, and everyday observation, López creates portraits that move beyond physical likeness to investigate presence, vulnerability, and connection. Her paintings inhabit a space between memory and imagination, where color becomes emotion and portraiture becomes storytelling.
Working with bold palettes, layered compositions, and intuitive brushwork, she develops a visual language that reflects both personal and collective experiences. The women who appear throughout her work often become symbols of resilience, introspection, and transformation.
Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Latin America, and Europe and has been featured in galleries, art fairs, and international publications. López holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNEARTE in Caracas, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Miami International University of Art & Design, and an International Master's degree in Art Therapy from Barcelona, Spain.
My Work in Numbers
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DEMOGRAPHICS
EDUCATION CERTIFICATIONS
EDUCATION
2025 — International Master in Art Therapy, ELBS Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
2024 — Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Miami Technology & Arts University (MTA), Miami, Florida, USA.
2016 — Master in Community Management, Business 2.0 and Social Networks, IEBS Business School, Spain.
2007 — Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Painting, UNEARTE (formerly IUESAPAR), Caracas, Venezuela.
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 — PxP Contemporary, Two-Person Exhibition, USA.
2014 — My Diary, Colegio Francia, Caracas, Venezuela.
2012 — Let Me Tell You a Story, Taparo Restaurant, Venezuela.
2012 — From the Manual of Carreño, El Café de la Cuadra Gastronómica, Venezuela.
2010 — Queens and Heroines, Galería Extracto, El Hatillo, Caracas, Venezuela.
2009 — Faces of Flirtation, Eka Gourmet, Caracas, Venezuela.
2008 — Personal Chronicles, Alliance Française, Caracas, Venezuela.
2008 — Everyday Narratives, Galería Bortot, Caracas, Venezuela.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 — Contemporary Art Exhibition – Open Art, InterContinental at Doral Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
2023 — Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, United Kingdom.
2022 — Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, United Kingdom.
2022 — Affordable Art Fair New York, New York, USA.
2022 — Plus Arte, Valencia, Venezuela.
2021 — Plus Arte, Valencia, Venezuela.
2021 — Faces & Figures, PxP Contemporary, USA.
2021 — White's Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA.
2020 — Cartography of a Lived Landscape, Laboratorio Artístico 2.0, Venezuela.
2020 — MCCA Miami Circle Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, USA.
2019 — MCCA Miami Circle Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, USA.
2019 — Journey of Dreams Benefit, Parent to Parent of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
2013 — The Art Place Wynwood, Art Basel Miami Week, Miami, Florida, USA.
2013 — Shifting Visions, Curators Voice Art Projects, Miami, Florida, USA.
2013 — Images, Curators Voice Art Projects, Miami, Florida, USA.
2013 — Hispano-American Watercolor Exhibition, Texcoco, Mexico.
2012 — AVAP Auction, Casa Odalys, Caracas, Venezuela.
2011 — Latintempo, Visual Art Sur, USA / Venezuela.
2011 — AVAP Auction, Casa Odalys, Caracas, Venezuela.
2011 — Benefit Auction for Fundación Paso a Paso, Caracas, Venezuela.
2011 — 9 EVAS Benefit Auction for Senos Salud, Bortot Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
2010 — XIII Alejandro Otero Art Salon, Venezuela.
2010 — II Hispano-American Watercolorists Encounter, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2010 — Women in the Arts, Museum of the Americas, Miami, Florida, USA.
2009 — Chromatic Becoming, Arturo Michelena Museum, Caracas, Venezuela.
2009 — Urban Switch, Universidad Monteávila, Caracas, Venezuela.
2008 — Juan Lovera Salon, Banco Industrial Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela.
2008 — Transit and Memory, Jacobo Borges Museum, Caracas, Venezuela.
2008 — XII Alejandro Otero Art Salon, Caracas, Venezuela.
2008 — XXVIII Municipal Painting Salon, Maracay, Venezuela.
2007 — Assemblages, Galería Unnexus, Caracas, Venezuela.
2007 — Becoming, Galería Unnexus, Caracas, Venezuela.
2007 — Juan Lovera Salon, Banco Industrial Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela.
2006 — Major Competition of Arts and Letters, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.
2006 — Transits, Metropolitan University (UNIMET), Caracas, Venezuela.
2006 — Faber Castell Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
2005 — Venezuelan Association of Plastic Artists (AVAP), Caracas, Venezuela.
2004 — Galería Huellas, Caracas, Venezuela.
2004 — Venezuelan Women's Association, Caracas, Venezuela.
2003 — Tribute to Roberto González, Casa del Artista Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela.
2003 — College of Engineers, Caracas, Venezuela.
2003 — XV Luis Alfredo López Méndez Painting Salon, Caracas, Venezuela.
2003 — Galería El Punto, San Juan de Colón, Táchira, Venezuela.
1995 — Collective Exhibition, Siomara Ochoa Painting Workshop, Caracas, Venezuela.
ART FAIRS
2023 — Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, United Kingdom.
2022 — Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, United Kingdom.
2022 — Affordable Art Fair New York, New York, USA.
2013 — Art Basel Miami Week, The Art Place Wynwood, Miami, Florida, USA.
SELECTED PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
2026 — Create! Magazine, International Women's Edition #56, Second Place International Award and Featured Artist.
2025 — Diario Las Américas, Winibey López: 30 Years of Art that Inspires and Transforms.
2025 — Doral Tribune / Community Newspapers, InterContinental at Doral Miami Fosters Art and Culture.
2025 — Cartelera Miami, Meet Winibey López: An Artist Connecting Art and Therapy.
2025 — Meridiano USA, Winibey López's Work Uses Color as an Expression of Unreserved Identity.
2025 — Ocean Drive Venezuela, Winibey López Celebrates Three Decades of Art as Identity.
2025 — 2001 Online, The Venezuelan Painter Who Uses Excess as an Affirmation of Identity.
2023 — Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, London, United Kingdom, Featured Artist.
2022 — Art Queens Society, Featured Member Artist.
2022 — Singulart, Painter, Draftswoman and Textile Artist | United States.
2022 — PxP Contemporary, Featured Artist Collection.
2019 — Florida Design Magazine, Artists on the Rise.
2014 — My Diary, Colegio Francia, Caracas, Venezuela.
2013 — The Art Place Wynwood, Miami Mix Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Florida, USA.
2013 — Shifting Visions, Curators Voice Art Projects, Miami, Florida, USA.
2013 — Images, Curators Voice Art Projects, Miami, Florida, USA.
2012 — Central University of Venezuela, Faculty of Humanities and Education, Astolfo Funes & Winibey López: Two Contemporary Views of Femininity.
2011 — AVAP Auction, Casa Odalys, Caracas, Venezuela.
2011 — 9 EVAS Auction, Bortot Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
2011 — El Sol de Margarita, Ella / She / Elle / Sie / Ela / Lei.
2011 — As Is Newspaper, Plastic Arts for the Benefit of Senos Salud.
2010 — El Nacional, Winibey López Portrays Her Queens and Heroines in Textiles and Acrylics.
2010 — As Is Newspaper, Female Art Between Flowers and Textiles.
2009 — Analitica.com, Winibey López Unveils the Faces of Flirtation.
2009 — El Nacional, Faces of Flirtation.
2009 — El Acento, El Cafetal: Cradle of the Arts.
2009 — Arteenlared.com, Urban Switch Collective Exhibition.
2008 — Arteenlared.com, Winibey López Reveals the Particularities of Everyday Life.
2008 — El Nacional & El Universal, A Panorama of Personal Chronicles.
2006 — City of Doral, Venezuelan Artist Winibey López.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2026 — Second Place International Award, Create! Magazine, International Women's Edition #56.
2010 — Honorable Mention, XIII Alejandro Otero Art Salon, Venezuela.
2007 — Cum Laude Honor, UNEARTE, Venezuela.
2007 — Honors Thesis Award, Visual Chronicles Archive, UNEARTE, Venezuela.
2005–2006 — National Council of Culture (CONAC) Arts Grant, Venezuela.
2005 — First Prize, Faber Castell Art Competition, Goethe Institut, Venezuela.
2003 — Dimaca Gallery Prize, XV Luis Alfredo López Méndez Painting Salon, Venezuela.
2003 — Third Prize, Fundación Daniela Chappard, Venezuela.
2002 — Honorable Mention, Chamber of Commerce of La Guaira, Venezuela.
1995 — First Place, XXVII Fernando Valero Art Salon, Caracas, Venezuela.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museo Carmelo Fernández, Yaracuy, Venezuela.
Embassy of France, Caracas, Venezuela.
Lycée Français de Caracas, Venezuela.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND DISTINCTIONS
2025 — Scholarship Recipient, International Master in Art Therapy, ELBS Business School, Spain.
2022–2024 — Scholarship Recipient, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Miami Technology & Arts University, USA.
2015–2016 — Academic Scholarship, IEBS Business School, Spain.
2020–2022 — O-1 Visa Recipient, Individuals with Extraordinary Ability, United States.
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
J. J. Galloway Art Gallery
Singulart
Plus Art Gallery
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