Biography

Juliana España Keller is an interdisciplinary artist who brings art and life together.              

She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing (2000) and a Masters degree in Sculpture (2003), both from Concordia University in Montreal. She explores and experiments with all contemporary media. She has recently curated two exhibitions in Montreal this year at Galerie Articule and Galerie Art Mûr and her own work has been presented in many international venues, most recently at the Ice Box Project Space as part of the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, Philadelphia, USA, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico and Muu Gallery in Helsinki Finland. She has an upcoming solo exhibition in October at Galerie Art Mûr in Montreal.

Artist Statement

My process deals with and of and about society, community and the individual and the sense of the fragmentary, ambiguous and the uncertain nature of living. I am interested in notions of representation and identity by exploring ideas that are constructed around a re-examination and reconsideration of traditional portraiture and masquerade. I construct bizarre intersections of reality and situation in which pop culture's interlocking clichés are amplified and exploded. I openly collect and reassemble our collective image-repertoire with intent to provoke contrasting feelings of discomfort and fascination, repulsion and seduction while touching on the sublime.

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Selected solo exhibitions

2005 Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec, “curio: curious moments”
2004 Galerie McClure, Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Québec, “culebra”
2003 Heidi Hollinger Gallery, Montréal, Québec, “whereveryougothereyouare”
2003 Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec, Canada, “ a standard life”
2002 Ocatillo Gallery, London, England, “Fire and Ice”

Selected group exhibitions

2005 Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, USA, “Operation Rapid American Withdrawal”
2005 Galerie Art Mûr, “Parameters of Fear”
2005 Articule, Montréal, Québec, “BAMBI”
2004 Muu Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, “Parameters of Fear”
2004 Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico, “causa y efecto”
2004 Studio XX, Montreal. Quebec, “La Fête de L’Art”
2003 Struts Gallery: Faucet Media Arts, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, “Video Salon”
2003 Galeria Epicentro and Hotel Isabel, Mexico City, Mexico, “VITAE – the Sonnet Project”
2003 Institute of Contemporary Art, Video Lounge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, “BAMBI”
2003 BlackBox Theater: Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA, “INsideOUT”



Education

2003 Dawson College, Introduction to Web Design and HTML
2000 - 2003 Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture
1997 - 2000 Concordia University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentration: Painting and Drawing

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