ARTIST STATEMENT

My fascination with movement began at a very young age. Long before I understood the history of painting, I sensed that the body in motion could express what words often cannot.

My art studies led me to painting and art history, while the years I spent living in Europe expanded this fascination toward other disciplines that continue to shape my practice: architecture, opera, ballet, and classical music. Each shares the ability to create emotion through rhythm, space, and gesture.

Today, I return each day to my studio in Oxapampa, surrounded by woodland. There, nature has ceased to be simply a landscape and has become an active presence in my painting. Gradually, it began to infiltrate my work, occupying architectural spaces and entering into dialogue with references from art history, as if reclaiming its place.

My work emerges from this encounter: movement, the memory of painting, personal emotion, and nature coexisting within the same pictorial space.

BIOGRAPHY

Daniella Queirolo was born in Lima, Peru, and moved to the United States in her early twenties, graduating summa cum laude from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Her years living abroad and extensive travels through the United States and Europe shaped a multifaceted visual language informed by art history, architecture, theatre, dance, opera, and music. These influences continue to emerge through the movement, rhythm, and spatial depth present in her paintings.

Working between her studios in Lima and the woodlands of Oxapampa, Peru, Queirolo has developed a contemporary figurative practice in which the human figure, nature, and references to the history of painting converge. Her recent work expands this dialogue, reinterpreting classical imagery through her own pictorial language and personal experience.

Queirolo’s work has received international recognition. Her painting First Grace was named a Finalist in the Target Prize 2026. She was Highly Commended at the Visual Artist of the Year Award in London (2024) and received the Best Overseas Painter Prize at The Holly Bush Painting Prize, UK (2021).

She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, art fairs, and international events across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Her paintings are represented by international galleries and are held in private collections worldwide.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2026    Finalist, Target Prize, Madrid, Spain

2024    Highly Commended Artist, Artist of the Year Award, London, UK

2023–2024   Selected Artist, The Almenara Art Prize, Spain

2022    Finalist, The British Art Prize, London, UK

2021    Winner, Best Overseas Painter Award, Holly Bush Painting Prize, London, UK

2021    Finalist, Boynes Emerging Artist Award, Australia

2021    Selected Artist, ModPortrait Special Catalogue, Galería ArteLibre / MEAM, Spain

2017    Preselected, Figurativas, MEAM, Spain

CURRICULUM VITAE

SELECTED GALLERY PARTNERS

Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Signet Contemporary, London, UK
ETRA Gallery, San Pedro Garza / Monterrey, Mexico
Shayne Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Steidel Contemporary, Miami, USA
Soho Fine Arts, Canterbury, UK
Cotswold Contemporary, UK
Galería Indigo, Lima, Peru

EDUCATION

1996 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA — BFA, Summa Cum Laude, First Honors
First Prize, Self-Portrait; First Prize, Photography; selected work featured on Temple University Art Department billboard

1999 Chelsea School of Art, London, UK — Illustration Course

2011–2016 Carmen Herrera Workshop, Lima, Peru — Art Anatomy and Drawing

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Loved by Nature, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Dances of Light, ETRA Gallery, San Pedro Garza, Mexico
2023 Five Year Retrospective, online, Women United Art Movement, UK
2022 Libertad y Movimiento, Galería Indigo, Lima, Peru
2019 Simbiosis, Guzmán y Lazo Gallery, Lima, Peru

SELECTED ART FAIRS

2026 EVOLVE Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (next exhibit) 2026 AAF Battersea, Signet Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 2026 EVOLVE Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2025 CONTEXT Art Miami, Art Basel Week, Steidel Contemporary, Miami, USA
2025 Art Source Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2025 AAF New York, Signet Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA
2025 AAF Battersea, Signet Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
2024 Art Source Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2024 Feria de Arte Contemporáneo ArtMotiv, Museo Amano, Lima, Peru
2023 CONTEXT Art Miami, Art Basel Week, Steidel Contemporary, Miami, USA
2023 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Sol Art Gallery, London, UK
2023 Art Source Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2022 CONTEXT Art Miami, Art Basel Week, Steidel Contemporary, Miami, USA
2022 Palm Beach + Contemporary, Art Miami Fairs, Steidel Contemporary, Palm Beach, USA
2022 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Sol Art Gallery, London, UK
2021 Red Dot Miami, Wynwood Art District, Miami, USA
2021 Art Source Art Fair, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Red Dot Miami, Art Basel Week, Miami, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Summer Exhibition, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2026 Group Exhibition, Signet Contemporary Art, London, UK
2026 Group Exhibition, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2025 Christmas Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2025 Lima Art Expo, Los Inkas Golf Club, Lima, Peru
2025 Red Cross Association, ETRA Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2025 Summer Exhibition, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2025 International Women’s Day, Shayne Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2024 Group Exhibition, Cotswold Contemporary, Buckingham, UK
2024 Christmas Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2024 Illusions, Galería Indigo, Lima, Peru
2024 Group Exhibition, ETRA Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2024 Summer Exhibition, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2024 Aura Fine Arts, Nottingham, UK
2023 Christmas Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Anniversary Exhibition, Galería Indigo, Lima, Peru
2023 Red Cross Association, ETRA Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2023 Soho Fine Arts, Canterbury, UK
2023 International Artists Exhibition, ETRA Gallery, San Pedro Garza, Mexico
2022 The British Art Prize Exhibition, OXO Gallery, Oxo Tower, London, UK
2022 Timeless, Art & Antique Show, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Holly Bush Painting Prize Exhibition, London, UK
2022 Maravillarte, Ministry of Culture, Lima, Peru
2021 Holly Bush Painting Prize Finalists Exhibition, London, UK
2020 Your Best Painting, MEAM / Galería ArteLibre, Barcelona, Spain
2018 Noche de Arte, Sede Central BBVA, Lima, Peru

SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

2025 House & Garden Magazine, October edition, London, UK
2025 25th Anniversary Red Book, Galería ArteLibre, Spain
2024 House & Garden Magazine, August edition, London, UK
2024 Magazine D, Architecture and Design, Lima, Peru
2024 Arts to Heart Project, ATH #5 Print Magazine, London, UK
2023 HOLA Magazine, “Daniella Queirolo presenta exhibición en Norte de México,” Monterrey, Mexico
2023 EFE Noticias, “La artista peruana Daniella Queirolo presenta exposición en Monterrey,” Mexico
2023 Diario El Norte, “Danzas de Luz,” Monterrey, Mexico
2022 Artists & Illustrators Magazine, The British Art Prize, London, UK
2022 Diario La República, “Mi arte que sea como un espejo para que se vean libres,” Lima, Peru
2022 Luces, Diario El Comercio, “El Arte en los Huesos,” Lima, Peru
2022 ModPortrait Special Catalogue, Galería ArteLibre, Spain
2021 Design and Style Report, “Miami Art Week 2021,” Miami, USA
2021 Boynes Emerging Artist Award, “Top Eight Female Artists,” Australia
2021 Guía Leonardo, Galería ArteLibre Editores, Spain
2020 MEAM / Galería ArteLibre, Your Best Painting, Spain
2020 Beautiful Bizarre Art Magazine Web, Australia
2019 Cover artwork, Síntesis de la Libertad, Pablo Beytía, RIL Editores, Chile
2019 Interview, Cultural Agenda, TV Perú, Lima, Peru
2018 Figurativas en Red, MEAM, European Museum of Modern Art, Spain