Bio

Cynthia Ortega is an interdisciplinary artist living in Los Ángeles, exploring neo surrealism as a Mexican American. She primarily works with acrylics, ink, and color pencil. Ortega experiments with color and patterns to achieve surreal paintings. She uses a limited color palette and under paintings of cool tones that are topped off with warm tones to feel nostalgia and timelessness. Many of Ortega’s paintings are depicted through anthropomorphism to contortions of figures, incorporating familiar objects or a dream dreamt from the night before. She has exhibited artworks from central to southern California including Rancho Palos Verdes, Fullerton and Bakersfield. She has a mural painted in Long Beach at Retro Row Ink where she is also working as a tattoo artist. Ortega received her AA for Transfer at Porterville Community College (2017) and is working to get her BA at California State University of Domínguez Hills (2024).