ARTISTAria Luna

Aria Luna is one of the world’s youngest exhibiting artists and a changemaker who uses the power of her art to raise awareness of social and environmental issues. Her work has been exhibited internationally, sold to private collectors throughout the United States, and has raised funds for such causes as art programs, ocean conservation, ecotourism, and wildfire relief. She serves as an artist ambassador for the protection of the Amazon rainforest and direct air capture of CO2.

Aria Luna has studied masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, and Van Gogh, whose styles naturally mesh with her own innate expression. She has exhibited at galleries and studios in California, New York, France, and Colombia. 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 finally to the Consulate of Colombia in San Francisco. Her first gallery exhibit is titled AMAZONAS, which celebrates the rich biodiversity of the Amazon.

Aria Luna has been featured on ABC 7 News, HuffPost, Telemundo, NBC’s “California Live” and in the Cartoon Network’s “Drawn to… Action” segment in the 2020 Hispanic Heritage Month series. In June 2020, she participated in two World Oceans Day events (co-sponsored by Ko Olina in Hawai’i and Ocean Future Fund in Australia). Aquarium of the Bay selected her as one of 30 artists to paint a 6-foot fiberglass sea lion statue for the 2020 “Sea Lions in San Francisco” public art exhibit. Her sea lion, named “Deep Blue,” is on display at Pier 39. In 2019, she was among the artists selected by the Sierra Club for its national “Art and the Green New Deal” initiative. Her work has garnered numerous honors, including First Place (5th grade category) in the Wyland National Art Challenge 2020; First Place in the 2020 IMMP x Klean Kanteen Orca Art Challenge (youth category); and  First Place in a 2018 California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife youth art competition.

In 2020, Aria Luna was invited to serve as the youngest “Artist for Air” for Tomorrow’s Air, an international collective for carbon removal; in 2021, she joined Amazon Aid Foundation’s roster of “Artists for the Amazon.” She is also a member of the International Association of Art / USA, Circle Foundation for the Arts, and the International Association of Visual Artists (IAVA) in Italy.

When she’s not drawing or painting, Aria Luna loves to play soccer and basketball, rollerblade, swim, and play the piano. She also enjoys bird watching and saving bees in swimming pools. She lives in Northern California with her family. Visit her online at www.arialuna.com or on Instagram at @aria.luna.art.