Tiffany Alfonseca

Tiffany Alfonseca is a Dominican-American contemporary artist known for vibrant mixed-media paintings that explore Black and Afro-Latin diasporic identity through portraiture, colour, and richly layered surface. Drawing from personal memory, family history, and lived experience, she creates works that celebrate the beauty, complexity, and emotional depth of Black and Brown communities.

Contemporary Figurative Painting

Alfonseca’s work is distinguished by saturated palettes, textured brushwork, and immersive compositions in which figure and setting become inseparable. Her paintings construct spaces of belonging shaped by womanhood, memory, ritual, and cultural identity. Through this visual language, she offers images of strength, tenderness, and affirmation that challenge reductive narratives and expand the representation of diasporic experience in contemporary art.

Background and Recognition

She earned her BFA with honours from the School of Visual Arts in 2020 and was an Artist in Residence at The Mistake Room in Los Angeles in 2021. Her work has since gained increasing international visibility through exhibitions and art fairs in the United States and abroad.

Selected Exhibitions

Notable presentations include her solo exhibition De las manos que nos crearon in Los Angeles and her participation in WHEN WE SEE US: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting at Zeitz MOCAA in South Africa. Her work has also been shown at Unit London, Expo Chicago, The Armory Show, and in exhibitions in New York, Detroit, West Palm Beach, and Barcelona.

Curatorial Engagement

Alongside her studio practice, Tiffany Alfonseca has also developed curatorial projects that reflect her commitment to uplifting underrepresented voices. This expanded practice reinforces her place within a generation of artists reshaping conversations around identity, heritage, and representation.

Available Works

Discover available works by Tiffany Alfonseca at OOA Gallery.