Mariela Ajras Muralist New York

Muralist · Brooklyn, New York

MARIELA
AJRAS

I paint images that feel like memories.

O-1 Visa · Extraordinary Ability · 2025
Distinguished Personality of Culture · 2022
10+ Years · 30+ Cities

About

Distinguished Personality of Culture — Buenos Aires Legislature2022
O-1 Visa for Extraordinary Ability in the Arts — USA2025
Founder — AMMURA, Association of Female Muralists of Argentina2020
Most Influential Female Muralists — Public Art Review2021

I paint images that feel like memories.

I am an Argentine muralist and visual artist based in Brooklyn, with over a decade of experience developing large-scale public artworks across Latin America, Europe, and the United States.

My practice combines community engagement, large-scale mural production, and narrative-driven imagery that explores memory, identity, and collective experience. I hold a degree in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires.

My current investigation, Visual Paganism, emerges from encounters with spontaneous symbolic systems in New York — altars and accumulations that signal cosmologies operating beneath the surface of the city.

Work

CORREDOR DE LA MEMORIA Buenos Aires, Argentina · 2019
BUENOS AIRES MUSEO Buenos Aires, Argentina · 2021
INTIMIDAD NÓMADE Buenos Aires Museo · 2023
CHROMA ZONE FESTIVAL Saint Paul, Minnesota · 2019 · 2025
LAKE STREET COUNCIL Minneapolis, Minnesota · 2025
INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Washington D.C., USA · 2019
BEYOND WALLS Lynn, Massachusetts · 2017
CENTRAL DE ABASTOS Mexico City, Mexico · 2018
RODEARTE FESTIVAL Guadalajara, Mexico · 2017
BLOOMINGTON CREATIVE PLACEMAKING Bloomington, Minnesota · 2025
BUENOS AIRES MUSEO Buenos Aires, Argentina · 2021

Video

Mariela Ajras — Muralist

Murals across Buenos Aires — Drone

Intimidad Nómade — Buenos Aires Museo, 2023

Press

ArchDaily

"I Think of the City as a Large Canvas Loaded With Morphological and Historical Stories"

2022
Public Art Review

Named one of the most influential female muralists in South America

2021
La Nación

She is Argentine, having created the largest mural in the city and extending her artistry to walls around the globe

2024
Forecast Public Art

A movement to give women muralists their due in Argentina and beyond

2021
Marie Claire

"We are many. Walls that proclaim equality."

2019
Google Arts & Culture

Featured works across multiple international collections and festivals

ongoing

Contact

LET'S
WORK
TOGETHER

Instagram @marie_ajras
Based in Brooklyn, New York