ABOUT ME
Hania Rios, Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist + model exploring the healing power of creativity
Photo by Justin Macala
Born in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, Hania Rios is a Mexican-American artist, model, and aspiring art therapist. After earning a bachelor’s degree in business, she shifted her focus to art full-time, developing as a self-taught painter and mixed-media collagist while pursuing visual arts courses at UCLA and Pasadena City College. For Rios, art has been a lifelong source of healing and self-expression, and she seeks to inspire others to connect with their own creative fire. Her practice spans painting and collage, marked by saturated color, glossy textures, and layered, playful compositions. Influenced by her deep fascination with fashion imagery and her professional work as a model, Rios explores themes of desire, beauty, and material excess. Through fragmented magazine cutouts, neon tones, and surreal juxtapositions, she constructs nonlinear “visual scrolls” that both celebrate and critique pop culture’s visual language. Her work invites viewers to feel both overstimulated and seduced—caught between fantasy and critique—while affirming creativity as a transformative force.
INSTAGRAM: @haniarios
