Maria Elisa Quiaro is a Venezuelan visual and multimedia artist based in Germany. A lover of paper and photography, she collects travels and memories and impressions of the changing world, which she transforms into abstract figurations.

In her works she addresses various contemporary issues, focusing on the concepts of identity and memory, and relates them to abstraction through the consideration of an increasingly abstracted world in terms of its evolving or "devolving" conditions.

Quiaro is interested in aspects of abstraction. In her research she explores significant forms or strategies of deconstruction and reconstruction of the visual image. Abstraction opens up new forms of engagement with the phenomenal world and gives the possibility of diverse readings of the same forms, ranging from the formalist and transcendental to the conceptual.

Her work has been exhibited in different parts of Europe and the American continent and forms part of various collections. It has been published internationally.She has served as a juror and curator for exhibitions and competitions.