About

Louisa L. is a French contemporary visual artist living in New York City. After living in London and Reunion Island, Louisa L. painted at La Grande Chaumière, Les Ateliers de Paris and L’Ecole du Louvre, before moving to New York City in 2014, where she has been a member of The Art Students League of New York, the National Association of Women Artists and See.Me community. Her work has been exhibited in many companies and locations in New York, including Times Square for Best of France, the largest event in the world dedicated to French culture. One of her paintings, representing the Eiffel Tower, is now at the Elysée Palace as part of the collection of Brigitte Macron. Collectors of Louisa L.’s artworks are in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa.

With her project Terra Futura inspired by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations with the 2030 horizon, Louisa L. has developed an original series of 17 paintings and “augmented” them with short videos from young people who are sharing their hopes for our planet. During the exhibition, visitors first discover the artworks and can then scan a QR Code guiding them to a video reel illustrating one of the 17 goals through the voices of students. Terra Futura was inaugurated in October 2022 in Louisa L.'s hometown in Lorraine, France and then presented at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris to the Art Shopping international art fair. One of Terra Futura's painting was also on display at Antoni Gaudi's La Pedrera in Barcelona, Spain. Terra Futura was selected among more than 600 projects as one of the most inspiring by the French Department of Ecology and Energy. And all over the 2022-2023 school year, the exhibition toured across French schools, cultural centers and city halls, touching over 3,000 visitors, before being presented in a New York school for Earth Day.

“We have entered an era where supporting each other is more important than it has ever been, and where contributing to the community we live in has become inherent to who we are and what we stand for. I am using painting and technology to tell stories behind the canvas. Through the NewYorkHer project I created in 2019, speaking about women empowerment and diversity, I saw how my art, that I am using as a media, could elevate people’s conscience and had a positive impact on young women in particular, bringing them self-confidence.

My abstract and semi-abstract work, filled with light, conveys a universal message of freedom, love, resilience, multiculturalism and most of all, peace. Both the female and earth presence in my art are here to represent the source of life, humanity and diversity, and serve as a healing process. And the colors I am using are showing that life is not that dark after all.”