Layla Pizarro is a Chilean visual artist whose practice brings together expanded photography, data-driven generative art, and experimental image-making. Her work explores themes of memory, identity, and belonging — and the way places leave their mark on both people and images. Based in Santiago, Layla adapts her approach to the conceptual needs of each project, working across analog and digital processes with a consistent commitment to experimentation.

Her artistic foundation was laid in Union City, New Jersey, where she attended an art-focused high school and participated in summer programs at Montclair State University and Rutgers University. She pursued further studies in Art and Anthropology at Rutgers, deepening her understanding of the connections between visual culture and human experience. After returning to Chile, she developed her practice through workshops in drawing and painting with Magdalena Vial and Inés Schmidt, and experimental photography with Catalina de la Cruz.

Layla's engagement with generative and computational tools grew through the VerticalCrypto Art Residency, where she explored AI techniques and trained GANs on her own datasets. While living in Buenos Aires, she deepened her work in photography and creative coding, combining traditional photographic processes with algorithmic experimentation. She also participated in seminars including The Futures to Come: Art and Politics in Times of Crisis (Fundación Proa) with Marcelo Expósito, and IA: Inteligencia o Idiotez Artificial at Fundación Andreani, led by Germán Rúa. Her formation has continued to grow: she is currently enrolled in the Specialized Work Clinic in Contemporary Art Photography at Plataforma RARA, Argentina, under Marina Cisneros, and is part of the inaugural cohort of Artist Commons (2026), a year-long international program for artists.

Layla has exhibited her work internationally in Santiago, Buenos Aires, New York, Hong Kong, Belgium, Dubai, and Panama City, and at Marfa Art Weekend 2025.

Beyond her studio, Layla is the creator and co-host of Arte y Labia, a podcast that amplifies the voices of Spanish-speaking artists across Latin America. Her work reflects a sustained engagement with the dialogue between art, memory, and technology, inviting viewers to consider how images carry the weight of the places and times that shaped them.