Ana Vanessa Urvina (Caracas, 1982) is a visual artist based in Miami, Florida. She has dedicated her life to both the study of art history and theory and to the creation and practice of art. Since the year 2017, the main theme of her work is the nature of the tropic ―it’s shapes, colors and meanings―. Leaves, trees, skies and the sea are transformed through her brushstrokes, colors and shapes. Her work include different media like paintings, sculptural acrylic boxes, art installations and more recently her new brand of mirrors.

Urvina got her bachelor degree in the School of Fine Arts in the Universidad de Venezuela and later a master degree in Artistic Production, specialization in Visual Arts, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. She teached at a couple of universities in Caracas, Venezuela, for several years. In 2015 she participated in the Advanced Intensive Painting Course, an artist residence in the School of the Arts of Columbia University in New York; since then, her work mainly revolves around the exploration of the Tropics.

She has participated in several art shows (both individual and collective shows), art fairs and public installations, through the years in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Spain, China and the U.S.A.

More recently, her work has taken a step from bidimensional works to more sculptural and installation pieces, and also to the creation of objects of design, like her own brand of colorful mirrors permeated with their unique aesthetic, which are designed and ensembled by the artist herself.