STATEMENT
My practice explores how ancestral memory and transformation are carried through landscapes, materials, and living beings, revealing the connections that bind us across time, place, and generations.
Rather than depicting the visible world, I seek to uncover what lies beneath its surface: memories embedded in place, traces of those who came before us, and the continuous exchange between human experience and the living world. 
Through an intuitive process, figures, organic forms, layered surfaces, fragments of text, and symbolic imagery emerge, creating spaces where the physical and the intangible coexist.
My work questions the boundaries between humanity and nature, self and collective, and past and present. It invites contemplation rather than certainty, encouraging viewers to reflect on our shared histories and the interconnectedness of all forms of life.
Working across painting, collage, and sculpture, I create layered forms and surfaces that echo the accumulation of memory—each layer concealing, revealing, and transforming what came before.
BIOGRAPHY
Anabella Rainer is an Argentine-born artist based in Los Angeles whose work explores ancestral memory, transformation, and the connections between humanity and the natural world through painting, mixed media, collage, and sculpture.
Rainer began her artistic training at the Rubén Darío Art Academy and later studied at the University of Visual Arts in Córdoba, Argentina. She continued her education in Los Angeles, specializing in printmaking at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) with Marianne Sadowski and sculpture at Teale Street Studios under Vladimir Goryachev.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Cipriarte Gallery in Venice during the 60th Venice Biennale, as well as at the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum and Nagasaki City Hall in Japan. In the United States, she has exhibited at The Ebell of Los Angeles, the Beverly Hills Art Show, and galleries throughout California.
Alongside her visual art practice, Rainer has worked as an art director and costume designer for film, commercial, fashion, and theater productions. 
EDUCATION
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Printmaking with Marianne Sadowski 2012-201
Teale Street Studios-Sculpture, Los Angeles with Vladimir Goryachev 2009-2012
University of Visual arts,  Argentina — 1996-1999
Art Academic Ruben Dario, Argentina-1989-1995
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
"ACE" Manhattan Beach Creative Art Center
"A Sky of Stitches," LACMA Art Parade 
"Bedrock" Los Angeles Art Association 
"Interiority" Los Angeles Art Association
"March/ Forward" Shoebox Artists, Brewery Arts Complex, LA
"Call and Response" Startup Art Fair Los Angeles
"Centered on the Center" Huntington Beach Art Center 
"What Come Next" The Makery DTLA
2025
"A Woman's Place: Visual Voices," The Ebell of Los Angeles 
"Spring Awakening," The Makery Downtown LA 
"United We Are One," MTLE Gallery 
"Five Muses," Gallery of Hermosa
"Discovery," Gallery of Hermosa 
"Spirit of Omoide Yokocho," Gallery of Hermosa 
"The New Year Show," Gallery of Hermosa
Beverly Hills Art Show
2024
60th International Biennale, Cipriarte Gallery, Venice, Italy
"A Bridge For Peace," Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
"A Bridge For Peace," Nagasaki City Hall, Japan
"Expression of Peace," The Makery Downtown LA
Spectrum Gestalt, BG Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Andakulova Gallery, Dubai, UAE
ArtExpo Paris, Galerie Agnes Nord
"6000 Circles," Beverly Hills Art Show
"6000 Circles," Range Projects Gallery, Los Angeles
CASA of Los Angeles Wine+ART
2023
Red Dot Miami Art Week
"Time," Laguna Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
Art On Loop Europe: Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam
ArtExpo Basel
ArtExpo New York
Finity Gallery, Berlin
Jonathan Schultz Gallery, Miami
Los Angeles Art Lab
Thomson Gallery, Switzerland
Moah Cedar Museum, Lancaster 
2022
Vogue 5th Edition, Boomer Gallery, London
The Queen, International
Grand Prize, International
Artistonish Magazine, International
Diversia UN, Canada
2020-2021
Laguna Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
New York Art Gallery, Tribeca
Montclair Gallery, NJ
2018-2019
Los Angeles Art Walk Gallery
Art Share LA Gallery
1999
Cordoba Gallery, Argentina

PROFESSIONAL  AFFILIATIONS
Kipaipai Fellowship. San Luis Obispo, CA. 2026
COMMISSIONS
Artworks for Film "A Girl Upstairs," Los Angeles, 2022
Artworks for "Let's Get Together" Music Video-Live, Brazil Arts Connection, 2021

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Art Director, 2005-present (film, commercials, fashion, theater)
Costume Designer, 2008-present (film, commercials, fashion, theater)
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