Lorena Levi is a working artist, part of VO Curations studios in London since 2021. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in Fine Art. She has won the Astaire Prize 2021, Jackson’s Painting Prize 2022 and is part of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022.
Levi is a narrative portrait painter who paints people she knows as well as strangers she gains stories from in unorthodox ways (video chat rooms, reddit forums). She predominantly works on wood, creating a mixture of abstracted backgrounds and detailed, naturalistic portraits.
The exhibited work features depictions of couples Levi knows, placing them in invented scenes based on her knowledge of the relationships between them.
