Artist Bio

Tere Sanz (b. 1968, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a contemporary painter whose work explores transformation, memory, and emotional resilience through abstraction. Her practice centers on the physical and symbolic layering of paint — the interplay of gesture, erosion, and emergence — reflecting a process that is both expressive and meditative.

Raised in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Sanz discovered her artistic voice early, inspired by her father’s passion for sketching and painting. What began as a fascination with drawing and charcoal evolved into a lifelong dialogue with texture and color. By the early 2000s, her practice expanded into acrylics and mixed media, shifting from monochromatic compositions to vibrant, emotionally charged fields of color.

Sanz studied Drawing and Basic Painting at the Art Students League of Old San Juan under Puerto Rican artist Sergio Centeno, and later continued formal studies at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de San Juan. Her first professional exhibition, El Objeto del Deseo (Teatro Coribantes, 2006), established her presence in Puerto Rico’s art scene and led to further solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including Frankfurt, Germany, and Cuenca, Ecuador.

Her work has been featured in cultural and philanthropic initiatives, including contributions to the Muscular Dystrophy Association and the Ronald McDonald House – Advent Health for Children and Arnold Palmer Medical Center (Orlando, 2020), where her paintings form part of a permanent healing-art installation.

Sanz currently lives and works in Saint Cloud, Florida, where she is developing Continuum — a forthcoming body of large-scale abstractions reflecting her ongoing search for renewal, presence, and transformation through the act of painting.