Gloria Ceren is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, video, and performance. Her research includes a wide variety of media layered with intersectional and feminist interests. In her practice, she asks the burning question, “How can approaching discomfort affect and reshape our sense of identity, and the broadening of signifying systems?” Hybridity and ephemerality play a key role in her process. An ongoing series of mixed media paintings poke fun at materials found in her bathroom studio: terry towels, menses, and bleach. Additionally, her performances have pushed bodily limits while conjuring up a myriad of reactions, including concerns of censorship, issues with art handling, and even theft by spectators, turned participants. Currently, she is collaging a flash book of designs that probes at the tell-all experiences of women. 

Her work has been exhibited nationally in numerous institutions and alternative spaces: NudeNite, Artpace, The Warwick Center for the Arts, Ground Floor Gallery, The Blaffer Art Museum, DiverseWorks, Inman Gallery, Hooch and Hive, and Tempus Projects. Ceren was the recipient of the Larsen and Palmer Fund in 2018 and received a James Rosenquist Scholarship in 2015. She completed her BFA in painting at the University of Houston, and relocated to Tampa for postgraduate studies, obtaining an MFA in studio art from the University of South Florida.