Luna Vela is a Mexico-born, Texas-raised interdisciplinary artist whose work lives at the border between myth and memory, where Tejana vernacular culture becomes cosmological grammar.

Working across performance, film, installation, poetry, and collective cooking, she treats the processes of transformation — fermentation, calcination, dissolution, fire — as shared logics across the body, the land, and the folk traditions of South Texas and the Mexican diaspora.

Drawing from fairytale, folklore, and pre-Hispanic cosmology, she moves across kitchens, stages, galleries, and community spaces as a single continuous practice — where grinding corn and writing poetry are the same gesture, and a shared meal carries the same intention as a film.

She is the founder of Neighborhood Molino, a community-based nixtamal research and education initiative rooted in Austin, TX. Her work has been supported by NALAC, the James Beard Foundation, and the City of Austin.