Isabel Velasquez (1998) is a figurative painter whose work centers on identity, heritage, and community. Born in Honduras and raised in Amsterdam, she carries two worlds within her ; worlds with fundamentally different relationships to culture, nature, and belonging. That tension is the driving force behind her painting practice.

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Working in oil paint, Velasquez portrays people within their own environments: portrait and landscape together, the personal and the political in a single image. Her work documents and honors communities that are rarely made visible at this level. She works from direct encounter and presence. 

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Velasquez is self-taught and has developed her practice through her own research and lived experience. In 2025 she participated in a residency at Hama Gallery in Amsterdam, a first step in an artistic trajectory that is increasingly reaching  and developing