Laura Larraz (b. 1989, Zaragoza, Spain) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Rapidly painted with as much panache as fury, the constellation of protagonists and antagonists that populate Laura Larraz’s tableaux seem to all but ridicule not only any attempt at being pinned down, but also conventions of figurative and abstract painting, good taste, and, perhaps, most importantly, beauty itself. Any beauty, traditional attractiveness, or optical allure that occurs in this work, happens almost in spite of it. One pictures the characters that comprise her work or better yet paintings not so much speaking as fulminating. That said, the object of their rage and protest is not necessarily a specific figure or tendency. There is a fundamental humanity and humanism at the heart of what and who they are. If anything, what binds and propels them has more to do with Pirendello’s aesthetic philosophy when he famously states, “Art takes revenge on life.”

She received her MFA from ArtCenter.

Recent solo exhibition was “Wyrds,” Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023. Recent group exhibition was “Trespass Sweetly Urged,” Tanya Leighton, Berlin, 2024.