Urshula Dunn (born in 1999 in Washington State) is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Washington DC. Her work examines uncomfortable emotions and storytelling through portraiture and the human form, inspired by classical oil painting and surrealist imagery.

Her pieces often feature augmented faces and bodies in bold color palettes. Central to Dunn’s work is her use of zoomed-in compositions to cut off parts of the image, or literally cutting off parts of the subject to reveal a hollowness of the form. This also serves to partially obscure the subject's identity to bring attention back to what is being depicted rather than who is being depicted. Melancholy in imagery, yet loud and demanding to be looked at, Dunn’s practice is one of quiet contemplation put on display for the world with the intensity that is felt by the individual.