Roxana Urra Acuña

Roxana Urra Acuña (San Carlos, Chile, 1967) is a Chilean visual artist based in Terrassa, Barcelona. Her work navigates the space between melancholy and playfulness, irony and vulnerability, creating symbolic portraits that explore the complexities of the human condition. Through these visual fictions, she invites viewers to reflect on contemporary contradictions—provoking identification, emotion, and sometimes unease.

 

Entirely self-taught, Roxana has cultivated her artistic voice through years of independent practice, enriched by an in-depth study of art history, techniques, and movements ranging from Renaissance masters to Surrealism, Art Informel, and Abstract Art. This diverse influence merges with her instinctive creative process, which shifts between spontaneous gestures and careful deliberation. Acrylics, plaster, and other textural elements play a central role in shaping her expressive and tactile visual language.

 

Her career includes notable achievements such as winning first place in the Zaragoza City Council’s comic competition in 2015 with her work Terapia de choque. She has participated in several group exhibitions, including the 2020 collective show at Centro Cultural Els Amics de les Arts in Terrassa, and in 2022 she presented her first solo exhibition, El animal que somos, at the same venue. In 2023, she took part in the group exhibition at Galería Impaktes Visuals in Sabadell, Barcelona.

 

Working from her studio in Terrassa, Roxana continues to develop a body of work that blends the figurative and the abstract, moving between the dreamlike, the symbolic, and the expressive—always seeking an authentic visual voice that resonates with human fragility, humor, tragedy, and existential depth.