About the artist...

maría moreno is an Ontario-based Venezuelan-Canadian abstract painter whose work explores movement, colour, and emotion through intuitive, highly expressive compositions. Largely self-taught, she draws on the visual and emotional influence of the Canary Islands, where she was born, and Caracas, Venezuela, where she grew up, bringing a vivid sense of energy and atmosphere to her practice.

Working primarily in acrylic, moreno builds textured abstract paintings through instinctive mark-making, layered colour, and spontaneity, often allowing raw canvas to remain visible as an active element within the work. Influenced by artists such as Secundino Hernández and Cy Twombly, she creates paintings that prioritize feeling over control, inviting viewers into emotional and sensory experiences that feel free, immediate, and deeply human.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and internationally, and is held in private and corporate collections across North and South America.

 

Driven by intuition, my practice explores the expressive potential of colour, movement, and gesture. Each painting begins without a fixed plan, unfolding through a process of experimentation, spontaneity, and discovery.

Layered textures and bold chromatic relationships create spaces where emotion and memory can surface. The unexpected is an essential part of the work, revealing moments of authenticity that cannot be planned.

Rooted in abstraction, my paintings seek to communicate what often lies beyond language, inviting viewers into a space of feeling, reflection, and personal interpretation.

 

   "Art is not always about pretty things. It's about who we are, what happened to us and how our lives are affected."

Elizabeth Broun, Former Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington

Exhibitions

2026

  • PEC Studio Tour, Guest Artist, Prince Edward County, ON (Sep 18-20)

  • Quiet Escape - Group Exhibition, Gallery 1065, Toronto, ON (August 7-16)

  • Art in the County Annual Juried Show, Prince Edward County, ON

  • The Big Art Show, The Tett Centre Gallery, Kingston, ON

  • Art Gallery of Hamilton, Annual AGH Art Sale, Hamilton, ON

  • THE ARTIST PROJECT, Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, ON
  • side by side, Fundraiser Exhibition, Union Gallery, Queen's University Kingston, ON

  • Arta Gallery, Monthly Exhibitions, Toronto, ON

 

2025

  • THE ARTIST PROJECT, Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, ON
  • RE:MEMBER, Member's Show and Sale, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON
  • side by side, Fundraiser Exhibition, Union Gallery, Queen's University Kingston, ON

  • Arta Gallery, Monthly Exhibitions, Toronto, ON

 

2024

  • Arta Gallery, Monthly Exhibitions, Toronto, ON

  • Collective Expressions, Group Exhibition, PWD Gallery X Kultiq, Kitchener, ON

  • Give a Little Bit, Group Exhibition, Melt Gallery, Prince Edward County, ON
  • RE:MEMBER, Member's Show and Sale, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON
  • THE ARTIST PROJECT, Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, ON
  • BE MY VOICE Solo Exhibition, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre - Window Gallery, Kingston, ON
  • side by side, Fundraiser Exhibition, Union Gallery, Queen's University Kingston, ON

2023

  • seams and strata, a Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON
  • Give a Little Bit, Group Exhibition, Melt Gallery, Prince Edward County, ON
  • RE:MEMBER, Member's Show and Sale, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON

  • The Moonwatchers, Group Exhibition, Melt Gallery, Prince Edward County, ON

  • Petite Art Show - Square Foot Edition, Online Group Show

  • Big Ideas Show, Group Exhibition, Paula White Diamond Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON

  • THE ARTIST PROJECT, Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, ON

  • Square Foot Show, Gardens, Online Show

  • Arta Gallery, Monthly Exhibitions, Toronto, ON

  • ART IS Group Exhibition, Kefi Art Gallery, Toronto, ON

2022

  • RE:MEMBER, Member's Show and Sale, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON
  • The Square Foot Show, Group Exhibition, Westland Gallery, London, ON
  • DECAY Juried Group Show, Melt Gallery, Picton, ON
  • Arta Gallery, "Worlds Away" Group Exhibition, Toronto, ON
  • Kingston School of Art Annual Juried Exhibition, Window Art Gallery, Kingston, ON
  • SQUARE FOOT SHOW, Abstract2 Online Show 
  • Arta Gallery, Group Exhibition, Toronto, ON
  • THE ARTIST PROJECT, Contemporary Art Fair, Toronto, ON
  • ARTWRK Online Show, artwrk.ca

2021

  • RE:MEMBER, Member's Show and Sale, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON
  • The Square Foot Show, Group Exhibition, Westland Gallery, London, ON
  • Perspectives, The Belleville Art Association Annual Juried Show, Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON
  • Annual Juried Exhibition "Where From Here?", Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON
  • Kingston School of Art Annual Juried Exhibition, Window Art Gallery, Kingston, ON

2020

  • Fleck Fine Art Exhibition, Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, ON
  • Kingston School of Art Annual Juried Exhibition, Window Art Gallery, Kingston, ON

2019

  • To Gift, Group Exhibition, Guest artist, Gallery 121, Belleville, ON
  • Perspectives, The Belleville Art Association Annual Juried Show, Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON
  • Group Exhibition, Guest artist, Gallery 121, Belleville, ON
  • Confabulation II, Group Exhibition, Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON

2018

  • Una obra de arte por Venezuela, Group Exhibition, Miami, Fl, USA
  • Perspectives, The Annual Juried Show of the Belleville Art Association, Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON
  • Liminal/Subliminal, Parrott Gallery Juried Show, Belleville, ON

2017

  • Golden Perspectives,  The Belleville Art Association Annual Juried Show, Parrott Gallery, Belleville
  • Light Miracles, Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists Annual Juried Show, Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener, ON

2016

  • Perspectives, The Annual Juried Show of the Belleville Art Association, Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON
  • Monthly Exhibitions at the Belleville Art Association Gallery & Studio, Belleville, ON
  • Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists Annual Art Exhibit, The Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON 

2015

  • The Chroma of KWSA and a Retrospective Group Exhibition, Kitchener Central Library Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON
  • Atrium Café Art Group Exhibition, St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, ON

Solo Exhibitions

2024

  • Be My Voice, Solo Exhibition, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON

2018

  • Be My Voice, Solo Exhibition, Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON

2015

  • Seven Shores Community Café, Waterloo, ON

Awards and Achievements

2021

  • Most Innovative Use of Colour for Flor roja, Perspectives, The Belleville Art Association Annual Juried Show, Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON

2020

  • Honourable Mention for Kaputt, Kingston School of Art Annual Juried Exhibition, Window Art Gallery, Kingston, ON

2019

  • Juror's Choice Award for Floreros #6, Perspectives, The Belleville Art Association Annual Juried Show, Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON

2017

  • Honourable Mention for Sina, Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists Annual Juried Show "Light Miracles", Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener, ON

2015

  • Gold Prize (2nd place) for Amazonian Roofs,  Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Community Art Contest, Waterloo, ON
  • People’s Choice Award for Espigas, Chroma of the Kitchener Waterloo Society of Artists (KWSA) and a Retrospective Group Exhibition, Kitchener Central Library Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON
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