Diana Mercado was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She left Ecuador as a child and immigrated to the United States. Diana received her BA and MA from Columbia University. In 2009, she moved to London and began her artistic journey, studying at the Chelsea College of Arts, London, and The Art Academy, London, as well as the New York Academy of Art. Her first exhibitions, Mujeres, in London, and Verde, at Neiman Marcus in New York, took place in 2021. Her painting, When I was Young, was selected for exhibition in 2021 as part of the Combined Federal Campaign’s Arts and Culture Show in Washington, D.C. Recuerdos de Los Andes is Diana’s first solo exhibition in London. She lives in New York, London and Seabrook Island, South Carolina where she finds inspiration for her work in the island’s breathtaking sunsets, beaches and natural habitats.Her work is held in numerous private collections in both the United States and Great Britain.