Ludi Leiva

I'm an interdisciplinary artist with roots in Guatemala and Slovakia working across painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and installation. I approach my work as a spiritual act, a way to transmute my subconscious into physical form. My work ...

I'm an interdisciplinary artist with roots in Guatemala and Slovakia working across painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and installation. I approach my work as a spiritual act, a way to transmute my subconscious into physical form. My work intertwines the real with the ethereal, creating dreamlike realms through themes of place, ritual, identity, and the in-between. Working in combined media, I primarily use acrylic and oil paint, oil pastel, oil bar, as well as monotype techniques to build layered textures. Intuitive mark-making allows me to translate internal states, memories, and dreams, blending abstraction and figuration to explore nostalgia, liminal space, and diasporic identity. My work has been shown internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. I live and work between Stockholm and Los Angeles.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​