Yam Miglioranza

Yam was born in 1997 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The granddaughter of
Italian and French immigrants, she grew up shaped by multiple cultural
inheritances - something that resonates in her ongoing search, her
explorations, and her deep interest in the symbolic and emotional. She
currently lives in Barcelona, where she continues to deepen her artistic practice.

She studied Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, a field that
shaped her way of observing the world and continues to influence her
artistic work. Her journey into art began with photography, which she
transformed into an expressive and conceptual tool. She later trained in
visual arts, specializing in art direction, where her connection to cinema
grew stronger—finding in film a way to travel, inhabit other lives, and build her own narratives.

Today, her practice is focused on painting, a discipline she explores freely
and self-taught. Yam experiments with pigments, coffee, cinnamon, water,
and acrylic on canvas, creating compositions that emerge from gesture,
stain, and improvisation. She works with unpredictability, allowing herself
to be guided by what unfolds in the moment. She sees her work as a form
of introspection, where painting becomes a space of freedom—almost therapeutic.

Her interest lies in material research and the exploration of pictorial
language through the organic, the erratic, and the intuitive. She uses a
limited set of elements that transform over time depending on their
combination, intensity, and symbolic weight. Her works reveal intimate
decisions, traces of a silent dialogue between body, matter, and memory.