Josie Licavoli is a Bay Area raised painter and art educator based in San Francisco. Her work explores the relationships between the body, memory, and the natural world; with a focus on the feminine form as a site of vulnerability, resilience, and presence. Inspired by her experiences along the California coast and her Filipino ancestry, she draws from both personal and collective histories to create paintings that reflect how bodies and environments shape one another. Her work engages with the weight of history and the traces of erasure left by social, cultural, and economic systems, imagining figures as living, adaptive landscapes that hold memory, emotion, and knowledge.

Through immersive compositions, her paintings reframe the feminine body as an active, knowing presence rather than a symbol, exploring themes of subversion, connection, and rememberance. Influenced by the histories of both Western and Asian art, her practice considers the ways we inhabit space—emotional, physical, and ecological—and how these spaces in turn inhabit us. In her work, land and body are inseparable. They reflect and shape each other, offering a reflection on memory, intimacy, and earthly beauty.