Hi there! I’m an Italian illustrator, author, and designer based in Brussels. My work includes branding, advertising, murals, and publishing. I create poetic and surreal worlds with a simple graphic style, always infused with a pinch of humor and irony. I explores themes of identity, diversity, and empathy. I develop my artistic research through painting, focusing on the human figure, its body, and its expressiveness.

 

Contacts

→ luciabiancalana.wait@gmail.com

→ @luciawait

 

Books

L’inventore di Idee, Edizioni Clichy 2024
Novantanove volte un volto, Pièdimosca edizioni 2022
Cicero, Pièdimosca edizioni 2019

 

Live paintings

We all need water @Mart Rovereto 2023
Stan Smith Forever @KMSKA Antwerp 2021
Ichos Eikòna @Cinéma Sala Pegasus Spoleto 2018
Dèmone @Lars Rock Festival Chiusi 2018
Kurt Vonnegut @Urbino e le città del libro 2016

 

Exhibitions

From illustration to comics, BCBF @Frankfurt Buchmesse 2024
Novantanove volte un volto @ZOO Bologna 2022
Emoticons @KAVKA Antwerp 2022
PG_X Manifesti @Palazzo Penna Perugia 2021
Le storie degli altri @Torino graphic days 2019
I am, you are @BilBOlbul OFF Bologna 2018

 

Murals

Space Jam  @London Mural Fest
Day and Night @Leuven
Isala Van Diest @Science park Niel
‘t is weer proper @Oostende
Let’s grooow @Milan
Natural Invasion @Overijse
Embrace the different @Scherpenheuvel-Zichem
Mermaid’s song @Antwerp

 

Mentioned

Autori di Immagini 2021, World Illustration Awards 2022 and 2020, Cosmopolitan, FrizziFrizzi, Picame, Artribune, Exhibart, Brillo Magazine, Collater.al