Mara De Luca is an artist currently based in Los Angeles. In her work, she is primarily concerned with Painting as a potential vehicle for cultural criticism. In recent projects, she has analyzed and reconfigured the medium's historical, theoretical and technical conventions in order to perform a visual and conceptual gesture, at once critical and experiential. De Luca's current work, Stations, is an investigation of the aesthetics employed in advertisement, media and propaganda filtered through redirected late-modernist painting theory. Stations will be exhibited as a CERCA Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in March 2010.

Mara De Luca received a BA in Visual Arts at Columbia University in 1995 and her MFA at CalArts in 2004. From 1998 to 2003, she lived and worked abroad in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe in group and solo exhibitions at venues including Galerie Chromosome (Berlin), AbstruseSpace (London), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and most recently in "Suburban Sublime" at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She has received critical press in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Time Out London and Tip Berlin, and her work is represented in collections such as British American Tobacco-Hamburg and Universitetets Kunstsamling University of Oslo, Norway. De Luca has recently been the recipient of a Durfee Foundation Artist's Resource for Completion Grant.

Mara De Luca is currently a Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at the University of California, San Diego and University of California, Riverside.