Loren Means is a Dallas-based mixed-media collage artist.

Working with black-and-white photography, magazine clippings, paint, and graphic interventions, Means constructs portraits and figures that explore identity as something assembled rather than fixed. Her compositions often begin with a structural form—frequently a skull, face, or body—before evolving through layered imagery that introduces tension between beauty, persona, and underlying structure.

Recurring elements such as lips, eyes, chains, and surreal substitutions appear throughout her work, functioning as symbolic fragments of contemporary culture. Fashion imagery, luxury objects, mechanical parts, and organic forms are combined to suggest the forces that shape how identity is built, performed, and perceived.

Her work sits at the intersection of contemporary collage, pop surrealism, and editorial visual language. The resulting images are both graphic and psychological—portraits that feel at once playful, constructed, and slightly uncanny.

Means’ work has been featured in Canvas Rebel and Shoutout DFW and is held in private collections.