Dayana Lucas (Venezuela, 1987) is an artist and graphic designer whose practice spans expanded drawing, sculpture, and installation. She was born in 1987 in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2003, she moved to Madeira Island, her parents’ homeland, and in 2006 relocated to Porto, where she graduated in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto (2010).

She co-founded Oficina Arara, an independent collective dedicated to manual printing, graphic design, and curatorial projects, where she collaborated from 2010 to 2017 on editorial initiatives, exhibitions, and artistic gatherings within Porto’s creative community. Since 2010, she has also been a member of the SOOPA collective, developing projects in the fields of experimental music, theatre, cinema, and contemporary dance.

Alongside her work as a graphic designer within the cultural sector, Lucas conducts practical research into expanded drawing, with a particular interest in its transformation into sculpture.Drawing lies at the heart of Dayana Lucas’s practice — not as a preparatory act, but as a complete and expansive language in itself. Her work unfolds through continuous, curved, and undulating lines that resist the rectilinear logic of traditional drawing. Whether on paper or in three-dimensional space, her drawings emphasise movement, rhythm, and the tactile presence of the hand. In recent installations, drawing transcends the confines of the page, adopting a sculptural and immersive form.