Venuca Evanán is a visual artist, activist and educator. She is an heir to the artistic expressions of the Sarhua community, from the Ayacucho region in southern Peru. Specialized in painting with natural colored soils and bird feathers, for more than twenty years Evanán has continued the development of the traditional painting techniques of the Sarhua Tables, being the daughter of pioneers who disseminated this art such as Primitivo Evanán and Valeriana Vivanco.

Her work combines traditional technique with experimentation on various supports such as stone, wood or textiles. Venuca is one of the first women to contribute to this exclusively masculine artistic production, and her work has expanded its representational content to address themes related to the customs of her community, eroticism, feminism, gender violence, LGBTQ+ struggles, daily life from the agency of migrant women, and the valorization of Andean women in society and their legacy within contemporary visual arts.

In recent years Evanán has dedicated herself to the transmission of traditional Sarhua knowledge and to the exhibition of her work in public and private institutions inside and outside Peru.