Edward Telleria (b. Santo Domingo, 1974) is a painter based in Cary, North Carolina. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, he trained at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales (formerly the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes) in Santo Domingo, where he earned a postgraduate degree in painting, graduating top of his class in 1996, following his graduation in painting, drawing, and printmaking.

Across more than two decades, Telleria has returned again and again to two recurring motifs: the rose and the eye. His roses bloom as large-scale acrylic abstractions of gestural line, saturated color, and spiraling form, while his ongoing Miradas series turns that same energy toward perception—how we look, and how each of us sees the same thing differently. Together they give his work its distinctly Caribbean charge, poised between figuration and abstraction.

Telleria has exhibited widely across the United States and the Dominican Republic. His work has been included in the XXIX Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales at the Museo de Arte Moderno and the 2024 Premio de Arte Juan José Bellapart at the Museo Bellapart, with solo exhibitions in New York, Boston, Provincetown, and Santo Domingo. He is a 2023 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant for painters and a 2018 Fay Chandler Emerging Artist honoree from the City of Boston. His work has been featured in Artscope Magazine and The Brookline Tab.

He continues to paint and exhibit from his studio in Cary, North Carolina. In 2027 he presents Living Lines, a two-person exhibition at the North Carolina Botanical Garden at UNC–Chapel Hill (January 5 – March 30).