Christina Dias aka chromaven is a Portuguese American artist, illustrator, and educator whose work explores the unseen relationships connecting humanity, nature, and the cosmos.
Guided by curiosity, she creates symbolic narratives inspired by dreams, ancestral memory, mythology, and the natural world, revealing the hidden patterns that shape our experience of being alive.
Blending luminous color, layered textures, and visual metaphors. Her paintings explore duality, transformation, and the latent connections woven throughout all living things. She invites viewers into a process of remembrance, creating spaces where curiosity becomes reverence, and the familiar begins to feel extraordinary.
Christina earned her BFA in Illustration from California State University, Long Beach, and her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Honolulu, Japan and beyond.