Luiza Lacerda

I’m Luiza Lacerda also known as Shira Luhz, born in Aracaju – SE – Brazil. Visual Artist and Graffiti Artist. Since childhood I had an interest in the arts where I started by painting some canvas. In 2015 I migrated to Portugal where I studied Visual Arts expanding my knowledge and improving the techniques learned, focusing more on watercolour and acrylic paint on canvas.

In 2018, when I returned to Brazil, I expanded to projects with bigger dimensions like mural paintings with elements of nature and mandalas. In the same year I also got to know the Hip-Hop culture and consequently the graffiti that was love at first sight, where I started to leave my mark on the streets with representations of plants, minerals and women, mostly indigenous.

In Graffiti, I have been representing the female presence in a space that is recognized for being mostly male, breaking paradigms with revitalization of degraded and even abandoned spaces, brightening city streets. This way, I began to mark my art on the walls of cities such as Aracaju, Recife, Salvador, and other Brazilian cities, where I have participated in national and international events and meetings, such as Pão e Tinta, Cores Femininas and Graffiti e Aprendizagem.