Kilia Llano

Kilia Llano is a muralist and multidisciplinary artist from the Dominican Republic whose work centers on public space, community engagement, and environmental awareness. Through largescale murals and street art projects, she explores art as a tool for social dialogue, collective memory, and climate action.

She graduated with honors from Altos de Chavón and Parsons School of Design, and holds an MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art. Her work has been featured in over 30 public art and street art events across the Dominican Republic, the United States, Colombia, and Europe.

Her public art projects include Muralizar la Frontera (Ministry of Culture, DR), Connections (USDA Forest Service), and Miches 001 (Dominican Public Art Commission). In 2025, Connections was selected as one of five projects to be presented at the conference Public Art as a Catalyst for Climate Change Action at Yale University, where she presented her work to an audience of scientists, scholars, and artists.

In 2024, she received a full scholarship to participate in the Global Artivism Conference in South Africa. In December 2025, she was nominated for the Creativity for Social Change Award by the Community Arts Network. She was also selected for a Special Projects residency at Project 14C (New Jersey) and for a public art project with the City of Philadelphia in 2026.