Artist Bio

Tere Sanz (b. 1968, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a contemporary abstract painter whose work examines the interplay between memory, transformation, and emotional resilience. Through her distinctive approach to layered surfaces—built through gesture, abrasion, and slow emergence—Sanz creates paintings that function as repositories of psychological experience.

Raised in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, she began her artistic practice through drawing and charcoal studies before moving into acrylic and mixed media in the early 2000s. She pursued formal training at the Liga de Arte del Viejo San Juan and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico.

Her debut exhibition, El Objeto del Deseo (Teatro Coribantes, 2006), established her presence within Puerto Rico’s contemporary art landscape and was followed by exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including Frankfurt, Germany, and Cuenca, Ecuador. Her work has also been included in philanthropic and community-based cultural initiatives, notably the Muscular Dystrophy Association (San Juan, 2007) and the permanent healing-art installation at the Ronald McDonald House – AdventHealth for Children and Arnold Palmer Medical Center (Orlando, 2020).

Sanz lives and works in Saint Cloud, Florida, where she is currently developing Continuum, an expanding series of large-scale abstract works that investigate renewal, presence, and the evolving architecture of memory.