Alma Lopez is an artist, activist and visual storyteller working in painting, photo based digital prints, and video. She is internationally recognized for her innovative digital images, which recontextualize cultural icons bringing issues of race, gender and sexuality into relationship with transnationalist myths.

She holds a BA from the University of California Santa Barbara and an MFA from the University of California Irvine. She exhibits her work extensively and has received awards for her work such as the California Community Foundation Arts Funding Initiative's Individual Artist Grant, and most recently, the Astraea Visual Artist Award.

Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Art in America, Flash Art International, and Ms. Magazine.

In 2005, she produced her first digital video documentary titled Boi Hair, and is currently working on a documentary about queer femmes.