Adrian Guerra grew up in Boston, Massachusetts where she earned her BFA in Fine Arts. Discovering her passion for the visual arts at a very young age, it has been, and continues to be, a lifelong journey to perfect her craft. Adrian works in a variety of media including, oil paint, acrylics, charcoal, watercolors, and photography. Though she has dabbled in styles such as cartoons, impressionism and surrealism, her favorite styles to work in are abstract and realism/photorealism.

She now lives in Sarasota, Florida where she is working relentlessly on her artwork. She always finds a way to pull through and create works that truly speak to who she is as an artist and an individual. It’s clear that she feels most at home pursuing her passion for art, as she states,

“I feel like I didn’t choose this path, it chose me, as cliché as it sounds. I know that working as an artist isn’t easy, but I can’t not be an artist. It’s what I was born to do.”

Adrian has participated in several gallery shows including Texture In Motion, a show displaying one of her series of large-scale oil paintings. She used a cooperation of synesthesia, “…a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses.” (Browne and Watson, 2018) and music by listening to Jean-Luc Ponty’s West-African jazz album, Tchokola. She allowed the colors and shapes she “saw” to inspire her pieces Mam’Mai and Mouna Bowa, which were titled after two of the tracks on the album. Her “extract” pieces were created from photographs taken of various areas of each of these paintings.

Adrian has received accolades and awards for her artistic ability. She was featured in The Boston Globe with a self-portrait as part of the exhibit Photosynthesis II, she was one of three students at Boston Arts Academy to have received the Grace N. Aznive Visual Arts Scholarship for her accomplishments in the Visual Arts, and she was accepted into The Oxbow School in Napa, California for her artistic achievements.