About

Gina Ortiz is a Mexican contemporary artist, illustrator, and trained architect based in Canada. Her work explores the intersection of personal history, migration, and cultural identity through process-based abstraction.

Using acrylic, gouache, and spray paint on raw, unstretched canvas, Ortiz builds layered compositions of colour, texture, and repetition that investigate themes of freedom, belonging, and selfhood. Influenced by architectural thinking and shaped by working across cultures, her practice balances structure with spontaneity, gesture with restraint.

Her large-scale paintings combine transparent washes, soft marks, and recurring motifs that reference textiles, emotional landscapes, and cultural memory. Through repetition and material exploration, each work becomes an evolving negotiation between intuition and form.

Parallel to her studio practice, Ortiz leads Love All Design, an illustration and visual storytelling studio focused on editorial, branding, textile, and cultural projects. Across both disciplines, her work remains tactile, poetic, and deeply human.

Ortiz’s work has been exhibited and collected privately across Canada, and selected for public art programs with McMaster University, Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, City of Vancouver, and Vancouver Writers Fest.