Artist Biography
Lady Natalia Pérez Lozano (Colombia, 1983) is a Colombian visual artist based in the United States. She holds a degree in Marketing and Sales and studied Fashion Design, academic backgrounds that have strongly influenced her artistic vision, particularly her sensitivity to image-making, composition, color, and visual narrative.
Her artistic training includes workshops with recognized artists in her hometown of Ibagué, Tolima, such as Miriam Díaz and Jairo Barrios, as well as programs at the Museo de Arte del Tolima (MAT). She has also participated in formative processes with Francisco Soreano in Mexico City and attended workshops and educational programs at Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC) in the United States.
After immigrating to the United States, Natalia experienced a period of cultural and linguistic adaptation while navigating personal challenges such as divorce, single motherhood, and rebuilding life in a new environment. Her experience as a Latin American immigrant navigating survival, identity, and belonging became a crucible of ideas that expanded her perspective and now directly informs the central question of her practice: how the human being transcends the struggle of daily existence to recognize itself as more than matter. This dual cultural perspective allows her to reflect on the intersections between Latin American and American contexts, both emotionally and symbolically.
Working primarily in painting and drawing, Natalia uses media such as oil, acrylic, oil pastel, watercolor, ink, and mixed media. Through the human figure especially the female body along with nature and a personal symbolic language, her work explores themes of emotion, instinct, transformation, resilience, desire, and transcendence. Animals, flowers, water, and organic elements function as metaphors for psychological and internal states, while the body becomes a vessel to express intangible emotional and spiritual experiences.
Natalia understands art as a process that begins with emotion and concept rather than technique, a philosophy that also informs her pedagogical and community-based work. At the Arts Council of Fayetteville, she has led classes and workshops such as Emotions to Art, focused on art as a tool for emotional expression and creative development.
Natalia works as a full-time artist from her studio in downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she continues to develop her current body of work and actively participates in exhibitions, community projects, and curatorial processes. In 2024, she was awarded an artist residency at the Arts Council of Fayetteville, and in 2025 she presented her solo exhibition Where the Wild Becomes Divine.
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Raleigh Opera, Diamante Arts & Culture, Region 6 Project, Obras de la Vida at the Arts Council of Fayetteville, MVA Gallery (PA), and Hudson Valley MOCA (NY), where her work was also published in the official exhibition catalog. She has also participated in public art initiatives, including a live mural at the Fayetteville Folk Festival in 2024.
Through her work, Lady Natalia Pérez Lozano creates spaces for emotional resonance, self-awareness, and a deep connection between the personal and the universal inviting viewers to move beyond the material and encounter a more expansive understanding of being.
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Education & Training
2008.Marketing and Advertising. Universidad del Area Andina. Bogotá, Colombia.
2006. Fashion Design. Corporacion Unificada Nacional. Ibague Colombia.
2023. the idea to canvas workshop, studio Franscisco Soreano. Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.
2024. Acrylic portraits.Fayetteville Community college Fayetteville ( FTCC )NC USA.
2024. OIL Painting Fayetteville Community college Fayetteville (FTCC )NC USA.
2007. Drawing Painting Workshop, Museo de Arte del Tolima, (MAT)Ibague Tolima Colombia.
2026. Museology: Basic Principles Behind Exhibition Practice
Online course, Universidad del Rosario (URosarioX) via edX.
Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You, HarvardX – Harvard University (via edX),.
Ongoing Self-Taught Visual Artist, Independent Study and Practice. Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. Destin, Florida, USA . Ibague, Colombia.
Independent and continuous artistic development through personal research, experimentation, and study in painting, drawing, mixed media, and symbolism. Focus on humanistic psychology and figurative expression.
Awards & Recognition
2025 Artist Residency, Arts Council of Fayetteville NC, USA.
Selected artist-in-residence, presenting solo exhibition "Where the Wild Becomes Divine".
2025.Honorable Mention, Ten Moir Gallery
Recognized for 'The Strength of Tenderness' in an international group exhibition.
Publications
2026. IN-SECURITY. Hudson Valley MOCA, NY. Work published in official online exhibition catalog.
2024, Obras de la Vida: Capturing Culture Through Portraits, Exhibition Catalog
Published by The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County
Fayetteville, NC, USA.
This official catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition Obras de la Vida: Capturing Culture Through Portraits, presented at the Main Gallery of The Arts Center at The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County (September 16 – October 15, 2024).
Supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, and private donors.
Photography by Raul Rubiera.
Translated by Yeimi Lozada Tolentino.
Academic & Educational Activities
2025. Workshop Instructor “Transforming Emotion into Art”Arts Council of Fayetteville Nc, USA.
Designed and taught a workshop focused on the creative process, guiding participants from emotional and conceptual inspiration to final visual composition. The class emphasized symbolism, body language, and the translation of inner experiences into artistic form.
2025. Tour Guide “Where the Wild Becomes Divine” Exhibition, Arts Council of Fayetteville Nc.
Led guided tours and artist talks during the solo exhibition Where the Wild Becomes Divine, offering insights into the conceptual development, symbolism, and creative process behind each work.
Solo Exhibitions
2026. Presence, online exhibition, Artsy. Curated by Red Springs Artspace.
2025. Where the Wild Becomes Divine Arts Council of Fayetteville, NC, USA.
A solo exhibition exploring the emotional and spiritual journey of human life from instinct to transcendence through symbolic female figures, animals, and nature. Presented as part of the Artist-in-Residence program at the Arts Council of Fayetteville.
Group Exhibitions
2026.IN-SECURITY. Hudson Valley MOCA. NY, USA.
2026. The Four Seasons. Modern Visual Arts MVA Bethlehem, PA, USA.
2025. Fear Not, The Madonna exhibit, The region6 project inc, culture and art center, Fayetteville, NC, USA.
group exhibition exploring contemporary interpretations of the Madonna. Organized by Region 5 Project, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting artistic voices throughout the region, the exhibition brought together diverse perspectives on femininity, spirituality, symbolism, and cultural identity.
2025. Nuditas,4th Annual Juried Exhibition, Exhibizone Gallery (Online International Exhibition)
Still Storm was selected for Exhibizone’s Nuditas exhibition, dedicated to the artistic representation of the human form.
2025. Lights, Shadows, Reflections, Art Show International Gallery (Online Juried Exhibition)
The Encounter was selected for this juried show exploring the interplay between light and darkness.
2024. Florencia en el Amazonas. Opera Auditorium, DACA (Diamante Arts & Cultural Center) Raleigh, NC, USA
Group exhibition inspired by the opera Florencia en el Amazonas, featuring visual artworks that explore emotion, transformation, and the Latin American cultural legacy.
2024. Obras de la Vida, Arts Council of Fayetteville, NC, USA
Group exhibition celebrating life, emotion, and culture through art. Lady Natalia Pérez Lozano presented pieces reflecting transformation and introspection.
2024. Fayetteville Folks Festival, Fayetteville, NC, USA.
Live mural painting performance celebrating community, culture, and creativity.
FAQ
What is your art?
My work explores the human condition through the tension between instinct, survival, and transcendence. Using the body as a central language and a personal system of symbols, I examine how physical existence and inner consciousness shape who we are and who we could become.
What inspires you?
I am driven by the complexity of human experience emotion, psychology, and the constant negotiation between survival and awareness. My work is informed by lived experience, as well as by the social and cultural structures that define identity, power, and belonging.
Why do animals appear so often in your work?
Animals function as extensions of instinct within my work. They carry specific symbolic weight fear, desire, protection, power and allow me to approach human behavior through a language that operates beyond the literal.
Is your work autobiographical?
It begins from personal experience, but it does not remain there. I use my own perspective as a point of departure to construct images that reflect shared emotional and human conditions.
Is there a “right way” to look at your work?
No. Each viewer brings their own experience. If a work creates tension, recognition, or a question that lingers, then it is already doing its work.
Where can I see your work?
Selected works are available on my website. You can also request a portfolio or visit exhibitions and studio viewings when available.
Do you see your work as hopeful or critical?
Both. My work confronts the realities of instinct, survival, and limitation, but it also opens the possibility of awareness, transformation, and transcendence.
What role does gold play in your work?
Gold marks the presence of the divine within the physical. It introduces a tension between material value and spiritual meaning, pointing to what exists beyond the visible.
What is your favorite quote?
“I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.”