Alonsa Guevara

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Alonsa Guevara (born December 13, 1986) is a Chilean contemporary realist oil painter living in New York City. Her paintings create imaginary worlds that mix fantasy with reality.

She was born in Rancagua, Chile, and spent seven years in the Ecuadorian jungle before moving to the United States in 2011. She began making art at age 12. She studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and earned a Master’s at the New York Academy of Art, where she received their Fellowship in 2015.

Her work has been featured by VICE, Business Insider and TimeOut. In her early pieces, she built worlds with characters like female fashion models depicted as crumpled paper, and she created intricate fruit structures to express desire, fecundity and fertility, paying homage to artists such as Judy Chicago. Her current work often pairs tropical fruits with mostly female nudes to explore life cycles and the connections between humans, nature, and spirituality.

Website: alonsaguevara.com