Luisa López Celada is a Spanish-American painter whose expressive and emotionally charged oil paintings explore themes of identity, resilience, and social change. Born in Spain, she showed artistic promise from an early age, receiving the National Painting Prize at just 12 years old. She later earned her MFA from the Complutense University of Madrid and moved to New York on a Fulbright Scholarship to study Communications Design at Pratt Institute. Before returning to painting full-time, López Celada built a successful career in advertising, working as an art director for McCann Erickson and later founding i-Latina, a creative agency that helped U.S. brands connect with Hispanic audiences.

A major turning point in her life led her back to her first passion, painting. Since opening her studio in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 2012, her work has been featured in exhibitions across the U.S., including Art Basel Miami, Gracie Mansion, and Victor Gallery in Washington, D.C. Her layered, textured canvases tackle global issues such as migration, environmental crisis, and women’s rights, often grounded in deeply personal narratives. Beyond her painting practice, López Celada is active in supporting other women artists, organizing community events and professional gatherings to promote collaboration and empowerment in the art world. Her work has been collected both privately and publicly, shown alongside names like Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol.