Patricia Iglesias Peco

Born in Buenos Aires and active in Los Angeles, artist Patricia Iglesias Peco (b. 1974) is attuned to the vibrancy of the natural world, imagining rambunctious gardens of flora and fauna rendered in oil paint: vegetal bodies caught in whirling gestures of bloom and decay, forming a choreography of endless beginnings. A playful, undulating tension pervades Iglesias Peco’s strange compositions, which appear simultaneously grotesque and beautiful, repulsive and alluring. Flowers appear as more than familiar metaphors; they become vessels through which the artist exercises her formal interest in painting and color theory, and, in revisiting the cyclical repetitions of life and death, with which she explores the multiplicity of the senses. Patricia Iglesias Peco holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has held solo exhibitions Las plantas de ese jardín conservaban en la sombra sus colores , François Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2024); Naturaleza Viva , François Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2022); Los Papeles Salvajes, Situations, New York (2022); and Seeking Arrangements , La Loma Projects, Los Angeles (2022). Iglesias Peco’s work has been shown in group exhibitions at institutions and galleries including Pace Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (2024); James Cohan, New York (2024); Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles (2021); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2020); among others.