Ileana Moro

°1991, Costa Rica.
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

Ileana Moro is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist from Costa Rica. She currently lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

Her practice unfolds as a visual diary—a meditation on the unseen currents that shape inner life. Moro’s work is less concerned with depicting the visible world than with expressing the fleeting emotions, quiet tensions, and existential questions that define what it means to exist. Her paintings reveal a temperament that is introspective and searching. She approaches art as a process of discovery rather than decoration, allowing the unseen forces of memory, longing, grief, and transcendence to surface. The absence of human figures in her work does not signify absence of humanity; rather, she paints the emotional weather of being human—the storms, the silences, the twilight moods that pass through all of us. Her canvases can be read as portals to the soul’s inner climate.

A spiritual undercurrent runs through her work. Through the interplay of shadow and light, she evokes the liminal spaces where the sacred might enter, creating thresholds that invite viewers into the deeper layers of experience rather than another world. At the core of her practice lies a paradox: a simultaneous embrace of ambiguity and intensity. Her work reflects a life lived in contact with extremes—grief and awe, tension and release—without seeking resolution. Instead, she asks the viewer to dwell within the unspoken, to inhabit the emotional space she evokes.

Moro’s technique mirrors this openness. Guided by intuition, her process allows spontaneity, fluidity, and the rise of subconscious material, producing works that hover between control and surrender, pain and beauty. Her art transforms inner experience into visible form, offering both artist and viewer a cathartic encounter. By honoring ambiguity rather than explanation, her paintings remain open-ended, emotionally charged, and resonant with the hidden dimensions of life.