A practice of surreal and symbolic imagery, rooted in Puerto Rico.

Leeann E. Vázquez Alemán is a Puerto Rican interdisciplinary visual artist based in Aguadilla. Her work spans painting, illustration (analog and digital), and small-format ceramics, transforming everyday Caribbean imagery into narratives of identity, memory, and cyclical life. She studied Fine Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, collaborated with Antonio Martorell, and completed workshops in Berlin. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Puerto Rico and internationally, including Espiral (2019), En/Fuera Colectiva Fem (2022), and Puerto Rican Women in the Arts in Chicago (2025).

Her images carry an irreverent humor drawn from folklore, personal mythology, and the rhythms of rural life on the island. Familiar figures and household objects appear in scenes that feel at once intimate and slightly off-kilter.

Vibrant color and tenderness sit alongside a sharper undertow — what looks first like a joke can hold a quiet edge, and the simplest scene often opens onto something stranger.

The work asks the viewer to linger: to find the surreal hiding in plain sight, and to take seriously the spiritual weight of ordinary moments.