Christina Misuro

My paintings explore the fragile boundary between the visible and the invisible, where dreams, memory, instinct, and emotion merge into symbolic landscapes. Rather than depicting the external world, I create spaces where psychological states take physical form through spectral figures, animals, shifting bodies, and fluid, oneiric shapes.

I am drawn to the parts of ourselves that are often hidden: fear, tenderness, desire, anxiety, longing, and the quiet forces that shape us beneath conscious thought. Water, hybrid creatures, and ghostlike presences recur throughout my work, not as fantasy, but as metaphors for the subconscious and the complexity of being human.

For a long time, I tried to fit the expectation of being gentle, agreeable, and emotionally restrained. Painting became the place where I could abandon that role and embrace contradiction instead. My work is rooted in the belief that light and darkness are not opposites, but inseparable aspects of the same inner landscape.

Working primarily in oil, I build atmospheric surfaces through layered, muted color, allowing forms to emerge gradually, as if remembered rather than invented. I am less interested in giving definitive answers than in creating images that invite contemp...

2026 – Anima (Group Exhibition), National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Minsk, Belarus (Upcoming)
2023 – Salon d'Arts Plastiques de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
2019 – Salon d'Arts Plastiques de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
2019 – I am Monet, I am Shishkin, I am Malevich (Group Exhibition), National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Minsk, Belarus
2018 – Salon d'Arts Plastiques de La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France
2018 – I am Monet, I am Shishkin, I am Malevich (Group Exhibition), National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Minsk, Belarus