Lara J. Trad is an internationally exhibiting visual artist whose work explores emotional dissonance, identity, and transience through surreal and figurative forms. Her practice draws from memory, psychological tension, and the quiet instability of human experience.Her visual language began in...
Read MoreLara J. Trad is an internationally exhibiting visual artist whose work explores emotional dissonance, identity, and transience through surreal and figurative forms. Her practice draws from memory, psychological tension, and the quiet instability of human experience.
Her visual language began in childhood through abstract scribbles used to conceal thoughts and lived events, an instinctive process that later aligned with surrealism. Over time, her work evolved to incorporate figurative anatomy and abstraction, primarily through oil painting.
A nomadic lifestyle significantly reshaped her practice, prompting a transition from traditional studio-based oil painting to digital media. While the tools shifted, the conceptual core remained constant: building emotionally charged, surreal environments rooted in form, tension, and philosophical inquiry.
Trad has exhibited internationally in Vancouver, Miami, Tbilisi, Byblos, Venice, Madrid, New York, Vienna, and Budapest. Her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and engage with moments of unease or recognition, depending on what they bring into the experience.
