Luz Valeria Chavez was born in 2001 in Mexico City. In 2021, she migrated to Chicago to attend The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she is currently pursuing a BA in Visual and Critical Studies. Luz Valeria is an interdisciplinary artist exploring a variety of mediums and conceptual scopes, including conceptual drawing, collage, installation, performance and writing. Her professional practice extends and often overlaps between studio and scholarly production. She develops curatorial projects with her own work translating them into solo exhibitions, or gathering works by others as a mode of sociality and interaction that can illuminate unexamined connections.

Through her latest artistic practice, she explores "refuge" as a concept where nature, architecture, the body, and the soul layer to provide a maternal force where one may find belonging. Luz Valeria is the creative director and founder of an emerging independent cultural center in Mexico City. 

She was awarded financial support to complete her bachelor's degree being the recipient of the Buonanno Scholarship based on an internal nomination and review process.