Lia D Castro’s artistic practice offers an approach to art that goes beyond her own paintings, texts and installations. It encompasses the complexity of society, and seeks to build more meaningful and inclusive narratives and lived experiences that have been overlooked in museums and art galleries. 

For the past 10 years, Lia D Castro has worked as educator, sex worker, transgender rights activist and gives antiracism and anti-transphobia lectures in art institutions, as well as in national and multinational companies. She also has interests in areas such as hate criminology, anthropology, behavioral psychology and sociology.

Full of meanings and resonances, Lia D Castro’s paintings reflect on gender and race hierarchies, art history, transphobia and biased notions of femininity, in works that invite the viewer to examine them closely. A powerful call to action, emphasizing the importance of representation and inclusivity.



Lia D Castro’s artistic practice offers an approach to art that goes beyond her own paintings, texts, and installations. It embraces the complexity of society and seeks to construct more meaningful and inclusive narratives and lived experiences. Through constant repetition – of gestures, scenes, characters, and colors – her paintings act as a mirror, implicating the viewer as a witness in the stories they tell, of a series of relationships related to race and visibility, identity and community, and capitalist structures that value profits more than human lives. In Castro’s works, we see people embodied by stories and affections, people who like to rest, to lose themselves in thoughts and daydreams, to be close to beautiful objects, friends, and loved ones.

For the past 10 years, Lia D Castro has worked as an educator, transgender rights activist, and gives anti-racism and anti-transphobia lectures in art institutions, as well as in national and multinational companies.


Lia D Castro

A Travessia do Rubicão, 2023