Hello, I'm Michaela L.

Michaela Lozada is an artist, advocate, muralist, software engineer, visual designer, and storyteller. She began making murals in 2019, as an activist within the Hong Kong Democracy Movement, a context of desperation that mandated larger, louder work than her prior pieces. She has since continued her work, both as a human rights advocate with the Hong Kong and other democracy movements, and as a muralist.
Lozada graduated with degrees in Visual Arts and Computer Science during COVID, a Dark Period from which she emerged with a life mission: always to defend and exalt "People and Art, in that order". She has since composed and fabricated many more mural and illustration projects, including work dedicated to Ukrainian and Middle Eastern lives in crisis, the global environmental crisis, and an ongoing healing investigation of her Filipina and Filipina-American family roots.
Lozada has worked on a wide variety of teams, spread across the cities of Newark and New York. She is currently a member of Los Muralistas of El Puente in Brooklyn, and of the Groundswell NYC mural artist's collective. She has also worked with and apprenticed under the celebrated Newark-based muralist, painter, and multidisciplinary artist Layqa Nuna Yawar. Also in Newark, she has exhibited her work with the Newark Arts Festival and with the Femme Curators Arts team since 2023.
Concurrently, Lozada worked for over three years as a software engineer and web developer on the Japan Team of Sesame Workshop, the global nonprofit behind Sesame Street, creating interactive content, games, and delivery systems to teach English to children in Taiwan and Mexico. She has also worked as a graphic designer and facilitator for the sustainability team of UNICEF NYC.
 The flavor of 2026 is chiaroscuro so far, and Lozada looks forward to working with its low lows and high highs.