Gena Milanesi is a Scottish-American artist born in Los Angeles. in 2025, she received her Painting MA from the Royal College of Art, London, and will undertake a residency at the Mack Art Foundation, New York, in summer 2026.

Milanesi's paintings unfold within an unrestrained ecology, where accumulations of material expose layers of possibility, evoking both violence and tenderness. Working through a continual negotiation of color, form, and gesture, she embraces a process shaped by both intention and surprise. Erasure and addition operate in tandem, allowing each painting to develop through a series of visible decisions and disruptions.

"I’m interested in making honest paintings," Milanesi notes, "works that reveal their own making rather than presenting a seamless illusion. The evidence of touch, time, and decision all remain active. They don't conceal their own becoming."

Through a sustained interrogation of materiality, tension-driven mediums accumulate across the surface, generating a visceral sense of presence and physicality. Her paintings occupy a space between structure and improvisation, stillness and turbulence, where opposing forces remain in productive dialogue.