Bio
Grisell Vargas is a Venezuelan-Canadian contemporary artist whose work weaves together science, emotion, and imagination. Originally from Venezuela, she has lived in Canada for over two decades and spent five formative years in France—experiences that shape her multicultural and multidisciplinary approach to art.
Before fully embracing her artistic path, Grisell had a distinguished career as a physician specializing in pain management. An award-winning medical professional, she authored three books and over sixty articles and developed innovative educational tools for both patients and clinicians. In 2010, she founded an art-based creativity group for people with chronic pain, reflecting her belief that healing can arise as much from creation as from science.
Her artistic training began at the Rafael Monasterios School of Plastic Arts in Maracay, Venezuela, and evolved through years of personal exploration. She works across painting, sculpture, and drawing, often blending abstraction and symbolism to explore the body, memory, and inner life. Her creative process is deeply intuitive and emotional, each gesture echoing personal narratives and universal human experiences.
Now fully devoted to her art practice, Grisell sees art as her primary language of connection. Just as she once offered care through medicine, she now aims to spark reflection, emotion, and beauty through visual expression. Her work invites viewers into a space where vulnerability and imagination coexist—where art is not only something to look at, but something to feel.
She shares her work on Instagram as Neuron Art GV—a name that symbolizes the union of her two lifelong passions: science, represented by the neuron, and the fine arts, especially painting and sculpture.