Ludi Leiva (b. 1990, Canada) is a visual artist with Guatemalan and Slovak roots working primarily in painting and printmaking. Her practice is a contemplative dialogue between landscape, body, and memory.
Working in watercolour, oil, and monotype, she builds richly layered, luminous surfaces from observation, imagination, and memory. Through intuitive mark-making, her work draws the human figure into conversation with abstract natural forms, blending remembered landscapes from childhood and ancestral homelands with the Swedish landscapes of her everyday life.
Since completing her MFA at Konstfack and a year of intensive study at The Royal Drawing School, Ludi has increasingly focused on her fine art practice. Alongside her studio practice, she maintains an active commissioned practice spanning illustration, murals, and site-specific drawing. Since 2016, she has created work across advertising and editorial projects, live drawing and portraiture, and public-facing commissions.
Ludi lives in Stockholm and works between there and London. Her original artworks are currently available through Rhodes Contemporary Art and Carta Magna, both in London.
Selected group exhibitions & fair presentations
Selected group exhibitions & fair presentations
2026
What the Surface Holds, Rhodes Contemporary, London, UK (upcoming)
London Original Print Fair (presented by Rhodes Editions), Somerset House, London, UK
A Line Has Time In It, Carta Magna, London, UK
Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Drawing Closer, The Royal Drawing School, London UK
Sandvikens Salon, Konsthall Sandviken, Sandviken, SE
2025
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (presented by Rhodes Editions), London, UK
The Art of Being, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, SE
Works on Paper 7, Blue Shop Gallery, London, UK
Hardly Soft, NE Sculpture Gallery Factory, Minneapolis, US
2024
VITAL SIGNS: another world is possible, The Science Gallery, London, UK
Mine, Yours, Ours, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, US
Transcending Time, The Arts Society, Nerja, ES
Lugares, PTM Contemporary (organized by NY Latin American Art Triennial), New York City, US
HOY, National Museum of Somalia, Mogadishu, SO
2023
Graduation Exhibition, Konstfack University, Stockholm, SE
Experiments in Print, Candyland, Stockholm, SE
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2023, A Home is a Portal, Körsbärsgården Konsthall, Burgsvik, SE
Select clients
Select clients
Adidas, Apple, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, The Other Art Fair, The Guardian, The Smithsonian, Herman Miller, Phillips Auction House, Boots, Dr. Marten's
Education
Education
Summer Intensive, Turps Art School, London, UK (Upcoming: Summer 2026)
Online drawing development year, The Royal Drawing School, UK (2025-2026)
MFA, Visual Communication, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts & Design, Sweden (2021-2023)
BA, Political science & gender studies, University of British Columbia, Canada (2008-2013)
Selected honours
Selected honours
2026, Cultural pilot grant, City of Stockholm
2026, Studio grant, City of Stockholm
2025, Studio grant, City of Stockholm
2024, One-year working grant, The Swedish Writers' Fund
2024, Longlisted, World Illustration Awards
2024, One-year working grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2024, Studio grant, City of Stockholm
2023, Shortlisted, Ung Svensk Form (Young Swedish Art & Design Award)
2023, Exhibition grant, The National Association of Swedish Art Societies
2023, Graduate student award, Konstfacks Foundation
2023, Project grant, Beata Brummers Foundation & Ulla Fröberg-Cramérs Foundation
2020, Artist grant, Choose Democracy
2018, Illustrator in Residence, The Other Art Fair: Brooklyn
2018, Fellow in Fiction (Writing residency), Lambda Literary Foundation
Collections
Collections
Original works held in private collections in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.