Biography

Jamie Luoto (b. 1987) lives and works in the San Francisco North Bay. Her intimate self-portraits and still lifes explore how identity is shaped internally and externally, with a current focus on the lasting psychological effects of sexual trauma. Luoto’s work has been included in academic discourse, most notably UCLA’s Honors Collegium course Feminism, Art and Metaphors of Trauma. 

Her painting Minds Pass Minds If They Be Occupied exhibited at the de Young Museum in The de Young Open (2023), and We Hunt the Doe was a semifinalist for the Smithsonian Institute’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition (2022). 

Luoto’s work has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings (Editor’s Selection, Issue 175), Kunstforum International, and Trebuchet Magazine; appeared on platforms such as Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, and Booooooom; and is in international private and public collections including the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA (2023).

Selected recent exhibitions include: (Upcoming) Reflections and Refractions, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA (2026); (Upcoming) Salon at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA (2026, solo); (Upcoming) Shadows of Unseen Grief, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2025, solo); The Armory Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York, USA (2024); When Dusk Falls, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2024, duo); Mirror, Mirror, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2024); EXPO Chicago, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Chicago, USA (2024); The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA (2023); True North, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, USA (2022); Stories from My Childhood, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, USA (2022).