Laura Atria

Laura Atria is a professional artist based in Florida. In 2020, she was commissioned by President Joe Biden to create multiple banner murals for his South Florida Presidential Campaign. She currently has murals located in the Florida Keys, many murals throughout the state, and was commissioned by Broward County’s Cultural Division to complete a mural at Port Everglades. Atria graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a dual degree: a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History. Although her work can be seen conceptualized through murals, sculpture, and mixed media, her main medium is oil paint, often times creating her own pigments.

In addition to Atria’s studio work, she is a public art administrator for multiple municipalities including the City of Coral Springs, the City of Pompano Beach, is currently working with the Town of Davie to create their Ten Year Public Art Master Plan and Guidelines, and is currently a member of the City of Pompano Beach’s BaCA Artist Selection Panel. Atria was one of the lead panelists at the 2019 Florida Professionals of Public Art Conference. In addition, in February 2016, she was one of the presenters for a statewide arts Convening Culture Conference at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. In 2015, she served on the Broward County Artist Selection Panel. In 2012, Ms. Atria worked with the Coral Springs Museum of Art to receive a Community Foundation of Broward Grant. In 2016, along with the Pompano Beach Development Services Department, she was awarded the Florida Planning and Zoning Outstanding Study/Plan for the City’s Ten Year Public Art Master Plan. She also worked with Pompano Beach’s Cultural Affairs Department and CRA to receive a $100,000 National Endowment of the Arts Grant in 2017. In 2018, she was part of the department team awarded a one million-dollar Bloomberg Philanthropies Grant for the City of Coral Springs’ Public Art Challenge. Most recently, in 2020, Ms. Atria worked with Pompano Beach’s Cultural Affairs Department to receive a Community Foundation of Broward Art of Community Grant for the City’s Public Art Program. As a professional artist and a program manager, Atria brings academic and hands-on knowledge in addition to familiarity of artistic theory, principles, and materials to the projects she encounters.