Kilia Llano

Willy Gomez

Angurria

<p></p><p>"Quién descubrió a quién?” Este mural nace del encuentro, de la mezcla y de la memoria compartida del Caribe. Lo creamos junto a mis hermanos Willy Gómez y Angurria en el Festival Color Caribe en Puerto Rico, y cada trazo habla de nuestras islas, de nuestros orígenes y de esos viajes que nos conectan desde tiempos ancestrales.<br>Aquí recordamos a los taínos que cruzaban el mar guiados por estrellas, y también a quienes hoy siguen navegando en busca de esperanza. En el Caribe, la migración no es una excepción: es un pulso antiguo, natural y profundamente humano. Todos venimos de un viaje. Todos somos migrantes de alguna historia.<br>Este mural celebra la belleza de ser caribeños, de ser dominicanos y puertorriqueños, pero sobre todo de ser parte de un mismo mar que nos une más de lo que nos separa.</p><p>________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</p><p>“Who Discovered Whom?” This mural was born from the encounter, the blending, and the shared memory of the Caribbean. My brothers Willy Gómez and Angurria and I created it at the Color Caribe Festival in Puerto Rico, and each stroke speaks of our islands, our origins, and those journeys that have connected us since ancient times. Here we remember the Taíno people who crossed the sea guided by the stars, and also those who continue to sail today in search of hope. In the Caribbean, migration is not an exception: it is an ancient, natural, and profoundly human pulse. We all come from a journey. We are all migrants of some story. This mural celebrates the beauty of being Caribbean, of being Dominican and Puerto Rican, but above all, of being part of the same sea that unites us more than it separates us.</p>

Quién descubrió a quién?

<ul><li><p>Second mural of the project called Connections, a personal project about how nature connects human beings, in this case, through migratory animals.</p></li></ul>

"Connections" 2nd phase

<ul><li><p>Personal mural about conservation of different species of plants and bees in the area of Samana.</p></li></ul>

Coco, Honey and Hill

<ul><li><p>Mural done at Rosa Emilia Tavares Cancer Hospital in Santo Domingo, DR. The mural is inspired by Mia story, a young woman journey suffering from cancer and her recovery after treatment at this public hospital, where people can get a cancer treatment at no cost.</p></li></ul>

"Hope"

<ul><li><p>4th mural of the project called Connections, a personal project about how nature connects human beings, in this case, through migratory animals.</p></li></ul>

"Connections" 4th phase

<ul><li><p>First mural of the project called Connections, a personal project about how nature connects human beings, in this case, through migratory animals.</p></li></ul>

"Connections"

"South Holyoke"

<ul><li><p>Third mural of the project called Connections, a personal project about how nature connects human beings, in this case, through migratory animals.</p></li></ul>

"Connections" 3rd phase

<ul><li><p>Mural done with Common Wealth Murals at Springfield library</p></li></ul>

<ul><li><p>Mural done near Parque Nacional Los Haitises, for the conservation non profit organization Grupo Jaragua, as a way of calling the town of Sabana de la Mar to preserve the mangles at this national park.</p></li></ul>

"Los Haitises"

<div>Kilia Llano (@kiliallano) for Beyond Walls Lynn</div>

Untitled

<div>Kilia brought the dominican joy of life to Graniti bz painting a smiling young Dominican woman</div>

Hunter

YOUNG DOMINICAN WOMAN IN GRANITI

<ul><li><p>Mural done for "Barahona en Colores" festival, at Barahona, Dominican Republic, as a celebration of the legacy of Dominican painter Ramon Oviedo, who was born and raised in Barahona.</p></li></ul>

"Oviedo"

<div>”In 79 AD, the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius destroyed the city of Pompeii, leaving it covered in 20 feet of volcanic ash and stones, which kept it frozen in time until its discovery in the 19th century and where beautiful murals were found, among them the portrait of Terentius Neo and his wife.</div><div><br>&nbsp;This mural represents the past and the present of Pompeii, how it could be reborn from its past of ashes and fire, to become a city that looks to the future and that is reborn thanks to the people who inhabit it. Thank you Teresa Acanfora a resident of Pompei, for serving as a model to represent the present together with the past (my version of the portrait of that ancient fresco of Terentius's wife).” – Kilia Llano<br><br>Kilia is a fine artist, muralist, illustrator, and art teacher. She was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and studied Fine Arts and Illustration at Altos De Chavón School Of Design, also got a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Illustration at Parsons School Of Design, NY. She participated in several collective art shows, and also five solo shows in Santo Domingo, Barcelona, and Miami (Art Basel 2017). She has been working with other fellow artists doing urban art in the streets of several cities and small communities in the Dominican Republic since 2012, where she has done about 35 murals. She also has several murals across the USA, in Boston, Washington, Maryland, and Arlington. Recently she got awarded a scholarship to the SURP Art residency at the New York Academy of Art and another residency with the Urban Field Stations and the USA Forest Services to develop a mural project in the Dominican Republic, USA, and Canada.</div>

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