Annie Ríos (b. 2002), a Spanish-Panamanian abstract expressionist artist and pianist, explores the intersection between light, geometry, and the human-spiritual experience. Through a technique of chromatic flattening, she interprets the phenomenon of refraction, allowing color to coalesce organically—thus transforming everyday elements into serene compositions that invite introspection.
For Annie, abstract art is a trace of identity and transformation—a composition charged with intuition and lived experience. Her work evolves like a canvas shaped over time: layers are applied, scraped, and recontextualized, yet its essential energy endures. Fascinated by the dialogue between light and matter, Annie finds in refraction a metaphor for questioning the accelerated pace of urban life, which often distracts us from the essential—the human and spiritual experience. Through abstraction, Annie constructs an intimate space oriented toward absolute personal introspection. She does not seek to impose, but rather to allow being.
Her goal is to create a synergy between beauty and the fractured, enabling profound dialogues between the viewer's soul and the material. In this way, her work seeks to foster an internal dialogue within today's generations, proposing a reflective pause amid the abrupt tendency toward distraction.
In this exchange between fluidity and geometry, it is the observer who completes the work, integrating their own experience to endow it with existential meaning.
Recently, her piece "Composition of a Refraction" was selected by a prestigious jury to be part of a group exhibition at the Fundación Los Carbonel (September 2024), where only ten artists were chosen. This achievement adds to her trajectory, which includes her first solo exhibition in Madrid (February 2024) and participations in group shows in Paris and Lanzarote. Annie has also expanded her collector base in Germany, the United States, France, and Panama.
Committed to the social impact of her art, Annie donates part of her earnings to support an orphanage for children with HIV in Colón, Panama.