Ileana Moro ( 1991 ) Costa Rican Self- Taught Artist. Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium

Her practice unfolds as a kind of visual diary, a record of her ongoing search for meaning beyond the visible world. Moro's work is rooted in a desire to understand the unseen forces that shape her inner life—the quiet tensions, the fleeting emotions, the unanswered questions that define what it means to exist.

Darkness and shadow occupy a central place in her visual language. For Moro, they are not simply visual contrasts but active presences—companions and teachers. They illuminate what might otherwise remain hidden, offering lessons in depth, vulnerability, and transformation. Her compositions often evoke a sense of stillness charged with emotion, as if something unsayable were taking form.

Her technique reflects a deliberate openness. Guided more by intuition than by plan, her process allows for spontaneity and fluidity. In this space of uncertainty, the subconscious rises to the surface, shaping works that hover between control and surrender, between pain and beauty. There is a meditative calm in her approach, akin to the way music fills a quiet room—softly, insistently, without explanation.

To Moro, life is a continual oscillation between grief and joy, chaos and clarity. Her work does not seek resolution, but rather honors the complexity of experience. Each piece becomes a fragment of a larger inquiry into presence, memory, and the poetic dimensions of being.

CV

Upcoming 

—VERDUYN GALLERY 2025

—SLAG & RX GALLERY NYC 2026 - 2027

SOLO SHOWS

— HIMERA On the Edge of Magic  ( Timisoara, Romania ) 2025
— Lera Treyger Inner Worlds ( Antwerp, Belgium ) 2024
— KAR STUDIO  Abstract Spirituality ( Guangzhou, China) 2023 

— La Collection  Thought Forms ( Antwerp, Belgium ) 2021
— Espacio Union Thought Forms ( Mexico City ) 2020

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

— Antwerp Art Weekend ZIJ Spoor Shifting Scale ( Antwerp, Belgium ) 2025
— SOLEILLE GALLERY ( Ibiza, Spain ) 2024
— 22MUSE GALLERY ( Antwerp, Belgium ) 2024
— FRANCIS MAERE GALLERY Oidonk Art Festival ( Deinze, Belgium ) 2024
— AVEE GALLERY 5 Years ( Kortrijk, Belgium ) 2024
— BALLROOM GALLERY Like and addiction / Destrucformation ( BRUSSELS, Belgium ) 2023 

— GREGE GALLERY Embers and Shapes ( Brussels, Belgium) 2023
— ST. VINCENTS  Beneath the Surface ( Antwerp, Belgium) 2021 

— GALLERIE PHILIA, Selection of sculptural work // DIALOGUES (Brussels, Belgium) 2020
— Union Galeria Union Sala B-N  (Mexico City) 2020
— STUDIO IMA  co-curated by Anniversary Magazine (Mexico City) 2020
— Espacio Sabatico Contaminacion Cruzada  (San Jose, Costa Rica ) 2020

RESIDENCIES

ARTEVENTURA, (SPAIN ) 2023

Full portfolio on request.