Loriana Espinel is a Colombian artist living in Houston whose practice includes photography, painting, film, sculpture, and performance. She explores how different artistic languages interact to express memory and shared experience.
Her experience spans Colombia, the United States, and Europe and is grounded in formal training at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. She collaborated with Theater of the Senses, where she explored performance, sensory language, and audience participation. Later, her work with a multimedia theater group expanded her understanding of how sound, space, and movement can shape perception. These experiences continue to inform her interdisciplinary practice.
Her large-scale Anaconda project, exhibited at the Cullen Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, exemplifies this multidisciplinary approach. Visitors entered the sculpture’s body, surrounded by jungle sounds, plant scents, and the mythical presence of the serpent—understood in Amazonian cosmology as sister to the jaguar and as a celestial river linking the Milky Way to the Amazon. Through this work, Espinel connects myth, ecology, and contemporary art practice.
Espinel has developed a body of work around Calligraffiti, merging calligraphy, typography, and graffiti into a hybrid visual language. Drawing inspiration from the Chiribiquete petroglyphs—an invaluable legacy of the pre-Columbian cultures of the Colombian Amazon—she infuses her strokes with symbolic and asemic meaning.
Calligraffiti has become the visual language guiding the next phase of her practice. It will serve as the foundation for El Árbol de los Anhelos (I Have a Dream), a new series that draws from medieval codices and illuminated manuscripts to explore political, social, and cultural narratives through contemporary abstraction.
Professional development program for artists focused on entrepreneurship and sustainable practice.
Grant supporting El Árbol de los Anhelos (I Have a Dream), commissioning four large canvases within a thirty-piece series on universal human rights.
Selected for a professional development program in entrepreneurship and sustainable art practice.
Commissioned by the University of Houston’s CMALS to create an immersive sculpture inspired by Amazonian mythology. First artist ever to exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Houston.
Invited juror for the selection of commissioned artists for MFAH’s Fall Festival in collaboration with ALMAAHH.
Commissioned to create a public sculpture inspired by Latin American mythology.
Interpret for asylum seekers and migrants in legal and community contexts. This experience informs a body of political and calligraphic work exploring displacement, language, and human rights.
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More Info about the Digital Boards Here
Organized by CMALS (Center for Mexican American and Latino/a Studies) of University of Houston.
Locations of the Portable, bilingual, and interactive digital Boards :
· Heritage Society , Houston
· MECA , Houston
· Hobby Airport , Houston
· Art Museum (Sugarland)
· Bush Airport, Houston
· CMALS , Houston
Sculpture
Calligraffiti
Latin Group Exhibition organized and presented at
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A multimedia theatre troupe formed by five multidisciplinary artists from the visual and performing arts.
- Project Love. Flick. Director
- Amongst Children. Flick Producer
- 1-Puntos de Fuga (Vanishing points) Multimedia Theater. Asst. Director
- 2-Puntos de Fuga. (Vanishing points) Multimedia Theater. Asst. Director
- El sueno de la razón produce monstruos. Multimedia Theater. Stage Manager
- El Entrecejo (The Brown) Multimedia Theater. Multimedia Operator.
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Multimedia Theater. Asst. Director
- El Hilo de Ariadna (Ariane's Thread) Production Manager. Colombia, France, Wales, Spain
- Oráculos (Oracle). Production Manager.
- Feria del Tiempo Vivo. Prop and Design Manager
For detailed press features, visit my Press & Media Coverage here
2025 — “Feature: CW39 Houston – H-Town Live,” CW39 Houston, TV Broadcast
2024 — “Loriana Espinel: Navigating Worlds Through Art,” Intertwined Arts Blog, Online Feature
2024 — “Transformó las líneas ancestrales...,” Periódico del Meta, Print Feature
2024 — “Interview: Chiribiquete (Dance of Gestures),” Radio Nacional de Colombia, Broadcast