MEET ENYA

Born in Havana, Cuba, raised in Miami, Florida, and now based in Barcelona, Spain, Enya Fontanills Pomares is a Cuban-American artist whose work navigates the fluid boundaries of identity, culture, and human connection. Rooted in painting and extending into immersive installations, her practice explores the interplay between material, metaphor, and lived experience.

The ocean is central to Enya’s work, both as a tangible presence and symbolic language. Born on an island and raised between shores, she understands water as both border and bridge, a force that unites, separates, erodes, and preserves. Through her art, water becomes a lens for migration, cultural pluralism, memory, and the constant motion of identity, revealing the currents that shape human experience.

Enya’s surreal and conceptually rich works transform familiar spaces into landscapes of reflection and interaction, translating cultural exchange and emotional displacement into visual and spatial form. Her work invites viewers to witness interconnection, embrace difference, and reflect on the fluidity, convergence, and transformation that define life, identity, and culture.

In October 2001, a child was born in the city of La Habana to a country where freedom of speech is punishable by law and artists have limited expression. As she grew up, she compromised her words for art. The habit carried through to the United States, along with the dream of using it to tell her story. 

In 2015,  Enya was admitted to New World School of the Arts. At the age of thirteen, she started taking a two-hour bus ride to Downtown Miami twice a day for the prestige of learning her craft.

 In 2019, she received a full-ride to California College of the Arts 

for which she relocated to San Francisco.

In 2023, she graduated with a Bachelor's in the Fine Arts for Painting/Drawing 

and a minor in Social Practice and Community Engagement. 

In 2024, she moved to Rome, Italy, to pursue a Master's Degree in Art and Culture Management at the Rome Business School.

In 2025, Enya completed her studies and moved to Barcelona, Spain.