Aria Luna is one of the world’s youngest exhibiting artists and a changemaker who uses the power of her art to raise public awareness of and support for issues impacting local and global communities. Her work has been exhibited internationally, sold to private collectors in the United States, and has raised funds for such causes as art programs, ocean conservation, and wildfire relief.

Bold, whimsical, and unencumbered by traditional expectations of style or technique, Aria Luna’s artistic expression runs the spectrum of color palette and media. Her works blend watercolor, acrylics and oil pastels with india inks and mixed materials; her art evokes the rich, colorful world that children see, imbued with fantasy—the impossible and dreamed made real.

Aria Luna has studied masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, and Van Gogh, whose styles naturally mesh with her own innate expression. Her first public exhibit was Dragon Storm, a modular 8 x 9-foot mural depicting an epic dragon battle that helped raise funds for Latino communities impacted by the October 2017 wildfires in Santa Rosa, California. Her debut solo exhibit was Fusion Tide, an interactive 7-piece installation that addresses plastic pollution of the oceans. It opened at Google headquarters in July 2018, moved on to YouTube, the International Ocean Film Festival, the City of Mountain View’s 2019 Earth Day event, the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and is currently at the Consulate of Colombia.

Most recently, Aria Luna participated in two World Oceans Day events (one sponsored by Ko Olina and other organizations in Hawai’i and the other by Ocean Future Fund in Australia), and PangeaSeed Foundation’s HOME mural festival, a global online art initiative celebrating Earth Week 2020. Aquarium of the Bay selected her as one of 30 artists to paint a 6-ft fiberglass sea lion statue for the 2020 “Sea Lions in San Francisco” public art exhibit. In 2019, she was among the artists selected by the Sierra Club for its national “Art and the Green New Deal” initiative. She has been exhibited at galleries and studios in California, New York, France, and Colombia. Her work has also garnered other honors, including First Place in her age category in the 2018 California Invasive Species Action Week youth art competition, sponsored by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Aria Luna is a member of the International Association of Visual Artists in Florence, Italy, and the International Association of Art / USA. She is currently working on a gallery exhibit titled AMAZONAS, celebrating the rich biodiversity of the Amazon. The exhibit is scheduled for October 2020.