My work revolves around the creation of figures that move between melancholy and playfulness, irony and vulnerability. These visual fictions seek to reflect on the contradictions of contemporary life, offering emotional narratives with which viewers can identify, be moved, or feel unsettled.
Through symbolic portraits, I explore core aspects of human experience—fragility, humor, tragedy, ambiguity, and existential depth. Rather than telling explicit stories, I use gestures, compositions, textures, and color to suggest open-ended reflections.
My creative process flows between spontaneity and careful deliberation. Sometimes a painting emerges impulsively; other times, it’s the result of a slow and meticulous search. Color and materiality —especially acrylic combined with other textural elements— are central to building an expressive and tactile visual language.
Influenced by a wide range of artists and movements—from Renaissance masters to Surrealism, Art Informel, and Abstract Art—my practice is self-taught and continuously evolving, shaped by experimentation and a search for an authentic visual voice.
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ROXANA URRA ACUÑA
Roxana Urra A. (born in San Carlos, Chile, 1967) is a Chilean visual artist based in Terrassa, Barcelona. Her work is characterized by a profound sensitivity toward nature, the urban environment, and the human condition, explored through an introspective gaze that blends figurative and abstract elements.
A self-taught artist by vocation, she has developed her skills independently through constant and rigorous practice, enriched by the study of specialized literature and extensive research in digital resources. This process has allowed her to engage with a wide diversity of artistic movements—such as Surrealism, Art Informel, abstract art, and the Renaissance—which have profoundly influenced the evolution of her visual language.
In 2015, she won first prize in a comic competition organized by the Zaragoza City Council with her work Terapia de choque. Since then, she has participated in various group exhibitions and developed personal projects in the field of painting. In 2020, she took part in a group show at the Cultural Center “Els Amics de les Arts” in Terrassa. In 2022, she held her first solo exhibition with the pictorial series El animal que somos at the same cultural center. In 2023, she participated in a group exhibition at Impaktes Visuals Gallery in Sabadell, Barcelona, and in the Swiss Art Expo (online) in Zürich, Switzerland. In 2025, she participated in the international group exhibition organized by Zarin Galleria at Helsinki Cathedral, Finland, as well as in the group exhibition of RAW Rome Art Week 2025 with CravingArt_Art Gallery in Rome, Italy. .Also in 2025, she participated in a group exhibition organized by BUAT Fine Art Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, where her work is now permanently represented.
Her work is held in private collections in Europe.
Currently, Roxana Urra continues her artistic production from her studio in Terrassa, focusing on developing works that navigate the dreamlike, the symbolic, and the expressive, all marked by a strong personal imprint.