Alonsa Guevara (born 1986)[1] is a Chilean contemporary realist oil painter[2] living and working in New York City.
Alonsa Guevara Aliaga was born in Rancagua, Chile[3] and grew up for 7 years in the Ecuadorean jungle,[4] before moving to the United States in 2011.
[5] She studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and for a Masters at the New York Academy of Art, before being awarded their Fellowship in 2015.
[8] Guevara's early works focused on constructions of invented worlds containing characters in the form of female fashion models, represented as crumpled paper,[9] the intricate structures of fruit, representing "desire, fecundity, and fertility",[7] and included homages to other female artists such as Judy Chicago.
[10] Her current works juxtapose tropical fruits and mostly female nudes to represent life-cycles, the connection between humankind,[11] nature and spiritual themes.