Gena Milanesi is a Scottish-American artist, born in Los Angeles and raised between Los Angeles and Glasgow. She received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2025. In 2026, she was an artist-in-residence at the Mack Art Foundation in New York.

Milanesi’s paintings unfold within an unrestrained ecology where accumulations of material expose layers of possibility. Her process moves through disruption and revision. Marks are buried and reintroduced as forms emerge, disappear and return in altered states.

Milanesi approaches painting as an active encounter and a site of perception. Her work explores the delay between sensation and recognition. Figural traces surface and recede while evidence of touch and previous decisions remain visible. In quiet tension with the speed of contemporary image culture, her paintings insist on the value of duration. Meaning develops slowly through the act of looking.