Panamanian artist Susana Gonzalez-Revilla (b. 1982) channels a powerful duality. Harnessing her performative potency, her public art confronts violence and corruption through provocative actions at sites like Panama’s Palace of Justice. These interventions in public spaces thrive on the immediacy of the viewer’s reaction.

In the refuge of her studio, however, her painting practice flows. Her intuitive dance of controlled chance and gestural freedom gives birth to poetic compositions—vibrant, expanding universes of stellar and microscopic forms that invite the viewer into a more contemplative stance.

This dynamic interplay of protest and poetry will be showcased in her upcoming participation in the BOG25 Bienal and her solo exhibition at New York’s Lichtundfire gallery. Her extensive education, which includes a BFA from Sarah Lawrence College, studies at Florence’s Scuola Lorenzo de Medici, and the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia, provides the foundation for a career that confronts pressing social issues head-on.