Osiris Zuñiga (b. Cali, Colombia) is a bicoastal sculptor and multimedia artist navigating the threshold where heavy structural fabrication meets the mystical natural world. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, and shaped by formative years in San Francisco, Zuñiga operates her practice between Los Angeles and New York. She is recognized for a distinct, physical approach to metalworking—inflating, braiding, and weaving raw steel to evoke visceral human emotion and explore cosmic symmetry.
Collaborating with the unyielding properties of industrial mediums, Zuñiga utilizes heavy fabrication methods, including welding and blowtorches, to manipulate metal volume. By injecting air directly into steel, she creates contorted, balloon-like forms that mimic the human psyche. Appearing swollen, bound, or weighted by gravity, structural installations like Ruptured capture an internal landscape of pressure, tension, and resilience.
Expanding beyond heavy-floor fabrications, Zuñiga’s practice includes atmospheric nightscape paintings and raw, time-based video art. Raised by a devout Catholic mother amidst religious iconography, Zuñiga’s latest body of work draws deeply from sacred structures, ritual, and spiritual devotion. This is explored through an ongoing video archive captured during recent travels with her mother to global Marian apparition sites and sacred shrines—including those honoring the Archangel Michael. By pairing distorted field recordings of communal prayer with heavily stylized visuals, her video art functions as a spiritual topography, mapping the delicate boundary between physical architecture, personal heritage, and the liminal search for the afterlife.