Brazilian Trans Artist, Painter, Designer // Luna Peregrino
Luna Peregrino is a Brazilian artist based in Lisbon whose life and work are deeply shaped by both her roots in Rio de Janeiro and her journey as a transgender woman. Growing up, Luna often retreated from the outside world, navigating the challenges of gender dysphoria in solitude.
Yet, within that quiet space, she discovered drawing and painting as lifelines languages through which she could explore, transform, and eventually emerge into herself.
Her artistic path has been fuelled by a search for belonging, for dimensions where art and identity intertwine. Today, Luna’s practice reflects both vulnerability and strength, holding the intimacy of lived experience while reaching outward to connect with others.
Her art is as much a personal journey of becoming as it is a generous offering to those who encounter it.
"Identity is never static. It is layered, branching, repeating."
Lines of Identity
As a transgender artist, Luna’s practice is guided by a profound search for spaces of authenticity, where being, seeing, and expressing flow freely. Her work emerges through an organic, intuitive process, with a particular focus on the human nude form. She views it not only as one of the greatest artistic challenges, due to its complexity and imperfection,
but also as a mirror of her own transition and transformation.
“If you can draw the human form, you can draw nearly anything,” Luna reflects. This belief echoes in her art and in her life: that to engage with change, to embrace what is mutable, is to discover resilience and depth. Through delicate lines, layered forms, and a sensitivity to movement and stillness, Luna creates works that embody both fragility and defiance, visual meditations on humanity’s endless capacity to change.
from janeiro to the easel
Luna’s story begins in the quiet corners of a small room in Rio de Janeiro, a room that became both shelter and mirror. She was a child of silence, introverted, hidden from the noise of the world, her body and soul often at odds. The walls around her witnessed the quiet ache of dysphoria, the weight of existing between what was seen and what was felt. But within that stillness, something began to move, a hand tracing lines across paper, a breath releasing itself in charcoal, in colour, in form.
Drawing was never simply art for Luna; it was a kind of survival. Each sketch became an exhale, each stroke a small rebellion against invisibility. She found, through the act of creation, a way to speak without words, to translate the shapeless tension of being into something tender, raw, and real. As she drew bodies, faces, and landscapes, she began to see her own reflection emerge: not the reflection forced upon her, but the one she had carried all along, waiting to be seen.
In time, the girl who once refused to leave her room found herself stepping into the world through the doorway of her art. Every canvas became a threshold, between fear and courage, between hiding and becoming. The very process of drawing, once an escape, transformed into a revelation: a way of shaping the self, of affirming existence, of tracing identity with intention and grace.
Today, Luna paints not only what she sees, but what she feels, the quiet pulse of humanity that binds us. Her art captures the lines that define identity, the textures that compose belonging, the unspoken stories that live beneath the skin of the visible. Through her easel, she continues to draw the world as she once drew herself, patiently, vulnerably, and with the unwavering belief that every mark, like every life, deserves to be seen.
from void to identity
Luna believes that art is not only a practice of creation, but a passage of return, a path leading out of the void and into the centre of one’s truth. For her, the act of drawing or painting is both an exorcism and a healing: each stroke a dialogue with the self, each gesture a way of reclaiming presence from silence. Through this process, she has come to see art as a form of therapy that transcends words, a language of transformation written in charcoal, oil, and light.
Yet the healing she seeks is not confined to her own hand. Luna’s vision extends to those who stand before her works, to the viewer who lingers, who dares to look long enough to be seen in return. She believes that within the depths of an artwork lies a mirror far more intimate than reflection: a resonance, a vibration that calls us back to the parts of ourselves we have forgotten or hidden. “To look deeply is to remember; to remember is to begin again” she affirms.
In her commissioned pieces, Luna aspires to create more than portraits. She creates portals, visual reverberations of identity, constructed through dialogue, energy, and intuitive translation. Each bespoke work becomes a sacred artifact of self-recognition, a tangible embodiment of who we are, who we wish to be, and who we are forever becoming.
For Luna, the canvas is not a surface; it is a threshold. And through it, she invites us all to cross, to move from void to voice, from absence to presence, from the unformed shadow to the luminous metamorphosis of being.