Louisa Lama Aknin

I am a French contemporary artist, member of The Art Students League of New York, where artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Cy Twombly, Alexander Calder, Mark Rothko, among many others, studied or taught.
I concentrate on acrylic painting, watercolor and mixed media.
After having lived in London and Reunion Island, I painted at Paris Ateliers and La Grande Chaumière in Paris, before moving to New York City with my husband and two children in 2014.

My class mentors and instructors at The League count amongst renowned artists like Charles Hinman, Naomi Campbell, Frederick Wong, Frank O'Cain and Ronnie Landfield.

While exploring different techniques, I am drawing my inspiration from the streets of Paris and New York and from people I have met throughout my life.

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

March 2017: The Art Students League, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery - Annual painting exhibition

January 2017: The Art Students League, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery - Annual painting exhibition

January 2017: Metro Pictures gallery (New York), ‘Postcards From the Edge’

April 2016: "Women in Innovation Forum" (New York)

April 2016: West End Health & Fitness (New York)

January 2016: Sikkema Jenkins gallery (New York), ‘Postcards From the Edge’

September 2015: Best of France, Times Square

May 2015: The Art Students League, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery - Annual watercolor exhibition

February 2015: The Art Students League, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery - Annual painting exhibition