Louisa Gagliardi (b. 1989) has a background in graphic design – studied in Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne ECAL (BA, 2012) and Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Since 2015 she has been focusing on her painting practice.

Her artistic process in creating these paintings first appears to closely follow design parameters, but radically departs from this schema once her screen mock-ups take physical form with the entry of extraneous materials. Varnish, gel medium, and nail polish add texture to suspiciously smooth surfaces, their fluid digital quality subverted by painterly interventions. She had recent solo shows at Antenna Space, Shanghai; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; McNamara Art Projects, Hong Kong; MOSTYN, Llandudno; Plymouth Rock, Zurich; Pilar Corrias, London; and Tomorrow Gallery, New York. She has participated in group exhibitions at Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Centre d’art de Neuchâtel; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Istituto Svizzero, Rome; König Galerie, Berlin.