About

Lisa Alonzo (b. 1984) was raised in Northern California and earned her BFA in painting in 2008 from the Academy of Art in San Franciso. Alonzo’ paintings exploring our relationship with truth and beauty have been shown internationally and widely across the US including shows in New York, Miami, San Francisco and Chicago. Alonzo’s work is held in the public collections of the 21c Museum and The Federal Reserve and has been featured in New American Paintings, American Art Collector and Create Magazine.

Alonzo’s vibrant, textured paintings explore the tension between beauty and difficult truths. Inspired by how we are drawn to easily consumable pop culture while avoiding uncomfortable topics, her work has transformed complex themes like environmental toxins, propaganda, WWII, and whistleblowers into visually captivating pieces. Her current series of still life paintings, rich in symbolism and color, investigate the blurred line between truth and fiction, especially in our age of AI technology. She challenges the divide between the artificial and authentic, inviting reflection on the stories we are drawn to and those we tend to avoid.

The artist currently lives and works in Maine with her husband and two young sons