Adriana Dorta

Adriana Dorta was born in Caracas in 1969 and spent her teenage years in Paris, where the stained-glass windows of cathedrals such as Chartres first shaped the way she looks at light and color. There she explored sculpture, ceramics, raku, mosaics, stained glass and photography.

After studying business administration and law in Caracas and working in the corporate world, she returned to art full time, enrolling in 2008 at the Miami International University of Art & Design.

Her paintings and sculptures combine fine, precise lines with layers of multicolored light, in the way a stained-glass window refracts the sun over the course of the day; since a pilgrimage in 2012, her work has taken on an openly spiritual dimension. She first showed publicly during Miami Art Week in 2015 and has since exhibited at Spectrum Miami, Art Palm Beach, Artexpo New York and Art Fair Hampstead in London. She lives and works in Key Biscayne, Florida.