ONE
MIND
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lara Gallardo is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, Florida. She holds a BBA in Design Marketing and a Minor in Visual Arts from Parsons School of Design in New York (1999).
Her work is held in private collections internationally and has been exhibited and placed in public and institutional contexts worldwide.
In 2026, Gallardo was an official nominee for the Global Arts Prize for Innovation, recognized for advancing innovation through creative process and contemporary artistic exploration.
She serves on the City of Miami Arts & Entertainment Council and participates in public arts and cultural advisory initiatives supporting the city’s creative and institutional development.
Before dedicating herself fully to fine art, she built an international career in fashion and design through her label Laradiva, carried by retailers including Anthropologie, Bloomingdale’s, Henri Bendel, and Peninsula Beverly Hills, and featured in Vogue, E! News, InStyle, Us Weekly, and Women’s Wear Daily.
Her practice continues to evolve through painting, material exploration, and visual systems rooted in light, rhythm, and structure.
Recognized as one of Miami’s “Icons & Innovators” by Luxe Magazine, December 2024 & Named Top 10 "Influential Women of Design” by
Luxe Magazine, May 2023
PRACTICE
Gallardo’s practice is grounded in a lifelong dialogue between art, design, and lived experience. Her work is informed by extensive travel, cultural exposure, and an ongoing study of visual language, drawing subtle influence from modern and post-war abstraction, including artists such as Matisse, Frida Kahlo, Helen Frankenthaler, and Frank Stella.
Rather than referencing a single narrative, her paintings function as fields of energy—compositions that invite the viewer into states of reflection, memory, and spatial awareness.
CAREER
Before fully dedicating herself to fine art, Gallardo built an international career in fashion and design through her label Laradiva, which was carried by retailers including Anthropologie, Bloomingdale’s, Henri Bendel, and Peninsula Beverly Hills. Her work has been worn by cultural figures including Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Kim Cattrall, and featured in Vogue, E! News, InStyle, Us Weekly, and Women’s Wear Daily.
This background in design and cultural production continues to inform her visual language—particularly in her sensitivity to composition, movement, and surface.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE
Gallardo’s creative work extends beyond painting into entrepreneurship, visual storytelling, graphic design, and interior concepts. Her approach is inherently multidisciplinary, shaped by a consistent exploration of form, identity, and visual impact across mediums.
She also incorporates a personal study of energetic awareness and intuitive perception into her creative process, allowing works to emerge through both structure and instinct.
STATEMENT
Gallardo’s work reflects a sustained inquiry into how color holds memory, how gesture carries emotion, and how abstraction can function as a space of encounter rather than representation. Each piece is constructed as a moment of translation—between inner experience and visual form.
Her practice continues to evolve through large-scale series that explore light, movement, and the architecture of perception.
One Mind Lab was born from a simple but guiding belief: that we are all part of one field of consciousness, and that creativity is a way of remembering that connection.
The studio is a space of exploration—part painting practice, part creative laboratory—where ideas are tested through color, rhythm, and material. Each work becomes an experiment in form, an attempt to translate invisible forces into visual language.
What emerges is not a fixed style, but an evolving system of inquiry shaped by intuition, structure, and the search for unity through contrast.