Bio

Teresa Olds is a multidisciplinary artist born in Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico, and based in New York City. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from The Ringling College of Art and Design and an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons. Rooted in her Mexican heritage and informed by spiritual practice, Teresa blends inner experience with outer reality. Known for her vibrant palette and layered compositions, her work collapses boundaries between the visible and unseen, offering encounters with thresholds of change. Teresa's work has been exhibited in Florida, New York City, and Mexico.

Artist Statement

I paint from memory and emotion to access the spaces between life, death, and rebirth, the invisible dimensions that coexist alongside our everyday reality. My work exists at the intersection of memory, transformation, and spiritual inquiry. Rooted in personal experience and perception, my paintings translate vulnerability into immersive environments. These works are born from moments of profound change: surviving cancer, undergoing a transformative spiritual retreat in Mexico, and navigating the loss of my father. Through color, atmosphere, and symbolic imagery, I create visual portals that invite viewers into intimate encounters with threshold moments, the stillness before impact, when everything changes forever. My practice is an act of radical honesty, reclaiming hidden parts of myself and offering spaces for communion with the unseen.

At the heart of my process is also the personal mythology, reframing lived experiences, even painful ones, through a mythic lens that transforms them into narrative cycles of meaning, renewal, and growth. This reframing allows me to process trauma as part of an ongoing journey, expanding beyond the rigid, western frameworks of the systems we inherit.