Lara J. Trad is an internationally exhibiting visual artist whose work comes from the need to give form to things that are difficult to explain directly. Her practice began in childhood, through abstract scribbles used to hide thoughts, memories, and...
Read MoreLara J. Trad is an internationally exhibiting visual artist whose work comes from the need to give form to things that are difficult to explain directly. Her practice began in childhood, through abstract scribbles used to hide thoughts, memories, and lived events. What started as concealment slowly became a visual language.
Over time, her work moved toward surreal and figurative forms, where bodies, fragments, and distorted spaces carry emotional tension. Oil painting shaped much of her early practice, while her nomadic life later pushed her toward digital media. The medium changed, but the impulse remained the same: to translate memory, instability, and inner conflict into images.
Trad has exhibited internationally in Vancouver, Miami, Tbilisi, Byblos, Venice, Madrid, New York, Vienna, and Budapest. Her work invites viewers into spaces that feel familiar and unsettling at once, where recognition often arrives quietly.
