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Through intuitive mark-making and material dialogue, her work draws inspiration from the mountain landscapes of her childhood and her family's ancestral homelands
Ludi Leiva (b. 1990) is a Canadian-American visual artist of Guatemalan and Slovak heritage working in painting and printmaking. Her practice is a contemplative dialogue between landscape, body, and memory in service of questions about belonging, heritage, and our entanglement with the natural world. She has exhibited work in New York City, Chicago, Stockholm, and London, received awards and grants including from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and completed a one-year drawing programme at The Royal Drawing School. Ludi lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.
Leiva approaches her work as a spiritual act, a way of transmuting the subconscious into physical form. Working primarily in watercolour, oil, and monotype, she builds richly layered, luminous surfaces from observation, imagination, and memory. Through intuitive mark-making and material dialogue, her work draws the human figure into conversation with abstract natural forms. She layers remembered landscapes from her childhood and ancestral homelands with the observed Swedish landscapes of her everyday.
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Works
Ludi Leiva
Late August, 2026Monoprint on Handmade Japanese Paper
Framed in Walnut with Artglass97 x 79 cm
38 1/4 x 31 1/8 inSigned in PencilFurther images
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