Paulina Ramos Moreno (b.1993, El Paso, Texas) is an American artist based in Scottsdale, Arizona. She studied both Fine Arts and Psychology at Arizona State University, graduating in 2018. The dual disciplines, image and mind, vision and psyche, taught her that painting is not only a visual act, but an emotional excavation. Paulina paints at the meeting point of image and mind, where vision touches psyche. In every face she studies, she sees not only bone and shadow, but something deeper: unspoken truths, buried memories, flickers of longing or defiance that live in the tilt of a chin, the silence behind a gaze. She believes that we show more of ourselves in quiet than in conversation, that our true colors often rise to the surface without our knowing. Her work is an attempt to catch those colors as they emerge, subtle, raw, undeniable. 

Paulina’s work belongs to the lineage of figurative realism, but it breathes with something older, an ache for the past, for the methods and mysteries of the Old Masters. This longing led her to Florence, Italy. At the Florence Academy of Art, she learned not just how to paint with precision, but how to pause, how to listen to a pose, to let stillness speak. She graduated in 2023, carrying with her a reverence for classical craftsmanship and a commitment to emotional honesty. 

Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, including Italy, Austria, and multiple juried exhibitions in Arizona. She has been honored with awards such as the “Arizona Watercolor Association Inc. Scholarship” and “Painting of the Year” by Lux Magazine Creative Review, and her inclusion in exhibitions like the “21st Annual Artlink Juried Exhibition” and “REALISM” at {9} The Gallery. Today, she resides and paints in Scottsdale, Arizona. She takes private commissions, portraits, especially, because nothing moves her more than capturing the vastness of a person’s spirit in a single moment of light and color. To paint someone is to witness them, beyond masks, beyond posture. It’s to trace the soul as it momentarily surfaces through flesh and light. Paulina’s paintings are not just portraits; they are conversations with the quietest parts of us all.