Loriana has lived in the United States for the last 25 years in New York City, San Antonio, and Houston. She obtained her Bachelor in Visual Arts from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. She received additional training in photography at the San Antonio Community College and the University of Texas at Austin.
making theater a significant part of her life. She has been an active member of El Hilo De Ariadna, a Colombian theater group led by Enrique Vargas. In Houston, she worked with Angeles Romero and her troupe: Absolute Art Productions, a multimedia Latino theater.
she focuses on photography and painting. Photography draws her into the world, making her walk and smell the earth; she can see into other people's eyes. Painting keeps her within the studio; it allows her to delve deep, tell stories from her heart, and explore her inner world.
she had a solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Butterfly Center. Her photographs have been published in magazines like The Builders Journal: Central Texas and books such as Houston and It's Worth It. The Houston Arts Alliance included one of her photos in the Folklife Photo exhibition, which is permanently housed at the Houston Endowment. Additionally, her work has been published in the book "Stories of a Workforce: Celebrating the Centennial of the Houston Ship Channel."
one of her most cherished projects was illustrating Amanecer del Tiempo, a poem book published by her father in Colombia.
Today, for her latest solo exhibition, she takes inspiration from the pre-Columbian pictographs of the Chiribiquete National Park in Colombia to develop a visual system based on the intersection of two different calligraphy styles. The exhibition is part of the annual Sawyer Yards program at Sabine Street Studios' East Corridor Gallery.
