I Was Here | An e-catalogue of works from Long-Sharp Gallery

I Was Here

On the cover: The moon goddess © Nicola Anthony, 2023

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I Was Here: Stories [Un]Told

To be human is to tell stories. Since time immemorial, it is through spoken and written word that we have learned one another, taught one another, and made manifest our existence.

I Was Here honors mark-making: the physical, creative desire to take proverbial pen-to-paper and the visceral, human yearning to record, to memorialize, to matter.

The works in this exhibit are as universal, complex, and as fundamentally beautiful as the artists who create them. Whether transforming unspoken testimonies from verbal to visual or celebrating radical human connection, these works are a testament to the call of storytelling and the power of storytellers.

Nicola Anthony

NICOLA ANTHONY (British Anglo-Indian, b. 1984)

A sculptor based in the UK who has created public artworks around the world from Los Angeles to Singapore. Nicola was appointed as artist-in-residence for the UK Government in Dubai (2021-2022), and has shown work in museums internationally. One of her most noteworthy permanent sculptures was commissioned for Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation, featuring the story of a Holocaust survivor (2018, Los Angeles).

Nicola is known for her signature metal text sculptures which tell powerful stories, connecting with history, people and places. (As featured in the New York Times, Architectural Record, Blouin Artinfo, BBC, among others). She gathers words, narratives and patterns in a variety of methods including collecting anonymous stories and confessions, inviting letters, sourcing big data from the depths of the web, and scouring traditional texts to find previously unknown subtexts.

Nicola says “I aim to give voice to important and often unspoken stories, revealing our inner worlds, exploring the tangled threads of history, roots, identity and universality which connect us all.”

Select public sculptures are in London (Embankment); National University of Ireland (commissioned by European city of culture 2020); Aspen, Colorado; USC Shoah Foundation (Los Angeles); Marina Bay (Singapore), Lim Chin Tsong Palace (Myanmar), and National Design Centre (Singapore).

Her artworld accolades include being shortlisted for the Sovereign Art Prize in 2020 for her artwork in Singapore, as well as the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2021 for her work on the subject of the migrant crisis. In 2019 whilst based in Dublin she received a ‘New Voices Of Ireland’ award. Nicola has recently had 3 works acquired by Ingram Collection of British Art and has been spotlighted by SmArtify as one of 50 noteworthy female artists.

Notable exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Singapore Art Museum (2017), and exhibited works at the Kuala Lumpur Biennale (2018).

Nicola is also a diversity champion, a trustee, poet and paper aeroplane collector. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, alumni of Central St Martin’s (University of the Arts London) and Loughborough University.

Amulets

This series of metal text sculptures is based on beliefs about luck across multiple cultures. The artist considers these artworks as amulets (defined as an object that is believed to possess magical or protective powers).

The artist wrote each text by researching folklore, stories, and symbols about luck that are still present in modern society and can give us a fascinating insight into human nature - our fears, hopes, and desires. The concepts contained have come from religions, myths, proverbs, and superstitions. The artist has also woven in some of the concepts from mathematics, astronomy, and science that guide our contemporary worldview.

Featured text: Up in the dark sky of ancient Greece, the moon goddess looks over us. She sleeps languidly on the curve of the moon, whose gentle light brings fertility and good fortune. The delicate lunar crescent rotates to become a horseshoe. If you find one, rub it seven times while making a wish. Don’t worry if it tips upside down, the luck collected within will flow down onto your mind and heart.

The moon goddess

Year: 2023

Medium: Stainless steel

Size: 39.3 x 39.3 x 29 in (100 x 100 x 75 cm)

From a unique series of 3 + 1AP

Unexpected Happiness

Each piece from the Unexpected Happiness series captures something remarkable about the human spirit. The sculptures feature a few moving sentences from the artist’s research, reverse-cast in stainless steel and captured inside a glass bell dome.

Featured text: War radically changed the daily rhythm of our family’s life. Everyone must always be alert. Everything must be charged, fuel, water, & food. One thing changed for the positive though. I have a new sense of home, not in a place but within myself. I find it helpful for my mental state to create my home wherever I am now bringing some echo of what I had there, and build something new. In a way I truly found myself.

Unexpected Happiness (Finding Home Inside Yourself)

Year: 2023

Medium: Stainless steel on mirror polished stainless steel base; in hand-made glass dome

Size: 11.8 x 8 in (30 x 20.3 cm)

Featured text: Fixing something that is broken, the feeling of breeze on skin, seeing a treasured person after a few days apart, having a sunny morning which stretches out peacefully because there are no other obligations today. In these moments there is such unexpected happiness. Hold on to these moments, they are there often. But they may surprise you by being humble, not the showy ones you may expect from true joy.

Unexpected Happiness (Hold onto these moments)

Year: 2023

Medium: Stainless steel on mirror polished stainless steel base; in hand-made glass dome

Size: 11.75 x 9.8 in (30 x 25 cm)

NICOLA ANTHONY

Education

2003 Fine Art BTEC, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins

2006 Fine Art BA First Class Honors, Loughborough University, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2023 The Magical Zone, Dublin, Ireland

Murmuration, Public sculpture unveiling, National University of Ireland

2021 See Things Differently, UK Pavilion, Dubai Expo, Dubai, UAE

2020 A Desire For Closeness, Presentation Arts Centre, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland

2019 The Opposite of Love is Indifference (unveiling), Aspen JCC, Colorado, USA

2018 Remembering our Father’s Words (unveiling), USC Shoah Foundation, Los Angeles, USA Intersection, Myanm/ART Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar

2017 Human Archive Project, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

The Flow of Time, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2023 Congregation, an exhibition of trustees from the Royal Society of Sculptors On the Edge, Espacio Gallery, group exhibition of members of the Royal Society

2022 Ingram Collection at Saatchi Gallery, curated by Jo Baring

Breaking Borders, (part 2), Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland

Artist residency at Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland

Breaking Borders, (part 1), Gallery of Modern Art, Ireland

2021 Artist in residence for the UK Government, UK Pavilion, Dubai

Rias Arc Museum of Art, Kesennuma city, Miyagi, Japan

Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK

2020 Life On An Island, National Museum of Marine Science & Technology, Taiwan

Redressing The Balance: Women Artists From The Ingram Collection, Lightbox Museum, UK

Sovereign Asian Art Prize Shortlisted Finalists Exhibition 2020, Hong Kong

Murmuration, public sculpture, Presentation Arts Centre, Enniscorthy, Ireland

The Time Is Yours, Lim Ching Tsong Palace, Yangon, Myanmar

2019 New Voices of Ireland Award, Culture Night showcase, Dublin, Ireland

Public sculpture unveiling, Aspen, Colorado, USA

Parallel Lines, The Lightbox Museum, London, UK

Field Trip Project Asia, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand

Sovereign Asian Art Prize Shortlisted Finalists Exhibition 2019, Hong Kong

2018 Resonant, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany

USC Shoah Foundation, Public Sculpture & digital exhibition launch, Los Angeles, USA

Unexpected Happiness, National Design Centre, public sculpture, Singapore

Sovereign Art Foundation, Finalists Exhibition, Hong Kong

Yangon Secretariat Building, residency & installation, Myanmar

2017 Kuala Lumpur Biennale, National Art Gallery, Malaysia

The Flow of Time, Public Sculpture Space, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Temperature Communication, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong

Departure Edition, Japan Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia

Field Trip Project, Aceh Tsunami Museum, Indonesia

2016 Krisis, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Artist-in-Residence, NPE Art Residency, Singapore

2015 Field Trip Project, Gudang Sarinah Ekosistem, Indonesia

Field Trip Project, Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines

Field Trip Singapore, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Exparte, Singapore Inside/Out, London, UK

Ouroboros, SouthEast Asian Games Commission, Singapore

Solo showcase at SPR MKT, part of Singapore Tyler Print Institute

2014 Urban Paddy Field, public sculpture, National Library, Singapore

Temporary public sculpture, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2013 READYMADE, Substation Gallery, Singapore

Art for youth, Royal College of Art, London

The Displaced, The Arts House, Singapore

Ambiguous Portrait of a Cunning Linguist, Ikkan Art, Singapore Displacements, Wilkie Terrace, Singapore

2012 The Alchemy of text-based Art, Bleicher Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Imprint, Serpentine Gallery Project Space, London, UK

2011 London Calling, Orange County Contemporary Centre for Art, USA

2010 No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern, UK

Lavett Ballard

Photo by Jonathan Kolbe

LAVETT BALLARD (American, b. 1970)

Lavett Ballard holds dual Bachelor’s degrees Studio Art and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies (Rutgers University), as well as a MFA in Studio Arts (University of the Arts, Philadelphia).

Ballard describes her work as a re-imagined visual narrative of people of African descent. Her use of imagery reflects social issues affecting primarily Black women’s stories within a historical context. Her current body of work uses collaged photos adorned with paint, oil pastels, and metallic foils. These photos are deconstructed and layered on reclaimed wood fences; the use of fences is a symbolic reference to how fences keep people in and out physically, just as racial and gender identities do so socially. The fusion of wood and photography offers artwork that both explores Ballard’s southern roots, as well as visually speaks volumes to continuing themes within her community.

Her artwork has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, selected for the “100 Women of the Year” edition in 2020. Named by Black Art in America as one of the Top 10 Female Emerging Artists to Collect, Ballard has placed works in the private collections of the African American Museum of Philadelphia, the Colored Girls Museum, the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection, and the Grant and Tamia Hill Private Collections.

According to the artist: “Prior to a universally understood written language, often a griot held the histories, legends, myths, and stories of a community’s culture. This was an honorable position often passed in one family from generation to the next. Much like those depicted in this work, I look at myself as having the honor of being a visual griot.”

The Griot

Year: 2021

Medium: Mixed media/collage on reclaimed wood

Hand signed on verso

Size: 71 x 32 in (180.3 x 81.3 cm)

According to the artist: “This work is the first in my new Goddess Myths and Legends body of work. This body will include images of friends and family as the central figures and reimagine them as deities. Here I have used my friend Nina

‘Lyrispect’ Ball, a well-known spoken word poet. The theme of love and passion is reflected in the work with the colors and choice of roses as decorative elements throughout. I tie the figures to their African roots by either marking or carving tribal patterns and designs on their faces. Much like love, the fence panel I chose is scorched from its past and broken yet still beautiful.”

Ase’,

So Be It

Year: 2021

Medium: Mixed media/collage on reclaimed wood

Hand signed on verso

Size: 29.5 x 71 in (74.9 x 180.3 cm)

LAVETT BALLARD

Education

2017 MFA (Studio Art), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2014 BA (Studio Art & Art History), Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

2021 AS (Art), Rowan College at Burlington County, Mount Laurel, NJ

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Long-Sharp Gallery- ‘My Soul Has Got to Move’- Indianapolis, IN

Rush Arts Philadelphia- ‘Rooted: From our head to our Souls’- Philadelphia, PA

Syracuse University/Community Folk Arts Center- ‘Stories My Grandmother Told Me’- Syracuse, NY

2020 Long-Sharp Gallery- ‘When She Roars’- Indianapolis, IN

Saint Joseph’s University- ‘Just Like a Woman’- Philadelphia, PA

Rutgers University-SWG- ‘Her-Stories: Visual Narratives of Women of the African Diaspora’- Camden, NJ

2019 Noyes Museum Stockton University- ‘Souls of Black Folk’- Atlantic City NJ

Art Sanctuary- ‘Reclaiming Her Time’- Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 Cornell Art Museum- ‘Heart of the Square’- Delray Beach, FL

Prizm Art Fair- Galerie Myrtis

Art Miami Art Fair- Long-Sharp Gallery

Newark Arts Festival- ‘Dionne Warwick: Queen of Twitter’- Newark, NJ

UTA Artist Space- ‘Literary Muse’- Beverly Hills, CA

2020 Prizm Art Fair- Galerie Myrtis

Galerie Myrtis- ‘Women Heal through Rite and Ritual’- Baltimore, MD

Penn State- Women X Women-Petrucci Family Foundation Group Show, -Lehigh Valley, PA

2019 Prizm Art Fair- Black Art in America Booth

Noyes Museum of Art, Kramer Hall ‘Driving While Black’- Atlantic City, NJ

Houston Museum of African American Culture- ‘Dorsey Family collection’- Houston, TX

Noba Art space, ‘PHOTO-Based’- Bala Cynwyd, PA

2018 Trestle Project Space Gallery- Contain her, NY, NY

African American Museum of Philadelphia- ‘Art for Social Change’- Philadelphia, PA

Timicua Arts House- ‘Housewives Collectives’- Orlando, FL

Little Berlin Gallery- ‘Mother’s Day’- Philadelphia, PA

Rush Arts Gallery Philadelphia- Giving up the Ghosts- Philadelphia, PA

2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition- Icebox Project Space- Philadelphia, PA

The Colored Girls Museum- ‘Urgent Care’- Philadelphia, PA

Selected Bibliography

2020 Cover Art: Her View. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Heguiaphal, Maia. “Lavett Ballard’s African American & Female Narratives.” Daily Art Magazine, December 14, 2020.

Baker, Chenoa. “‘To Set at Liberty Them That Are Bruised:’ Hybrid Antidotes Artistic Apothecaries and Women of….”

Sugarcane Magazine, July 14, 2020.

Dobrin, Peter. “Philly actors, musicians, dancers can’t imagine when they’ll work again:…”

Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25

Graves-El, Ahmad. “Timeless Perfection: Local Artist Creates Cover for TIME’s 100 Women of the Year Issue.” SNJToday, April 7

Cover Art: 1955 The Bus Boycotters. “Special Edition Women of the Year.” TIME Magazine, March 10-17, 2020.

Valentine, Victoria. “Time Magazine Recognizes 100 years of Influential women with Covers by....” Culturetype Magazine, March 8

2019 Osterheldt, Jenee. “Art Basel bears far better fruit than that $120,000 banana.” The Boston Globe, December 11, 2019.

2018 Robinson, Shantay. “Artist on the Move: Lavett Ballard.” Black Art In America.com, June 14, 2018.

Najuma, Ayana. “New Generation of Artists weaves common threads for community empowerment.” March on Washington Film Festival Catalog, July 11.

Robinson, Shantay. “10 Emerging Black Female Artists to Collect.” Black Art in America.com, June 14, 2018.

Carroll, Angela N. “Giving Up the Ghost Artifacts: A Study of Power & Solidarity Against White Violence in Modernity.” Sugarcane

Magazine/Global Black Art & Culture, February.

2014 Friedman, Sally. “Juried show offers a generous display of S.J. talent.” Courier Post-ARTs section, September 14, 2014.

Carbone, Mariel. “Art for Every Taste.” Burlington County Times, September 18, 2014.

2012 “RU Ready.” Rutgers University Camden. MATTER Magazine, January 2012.

2008 Featured Artist Article. Art Scene NJ, 2008.

“Home Décor with a personal touch.” Burlington County Times, March 2008.

2007 “Voices and Vision Art.” Burlington County Times, February 2007.

2004 Mikel, Valerie. “Lavett Ore knows how to paint the own.” 2001.

Media

CFAC/Syracuse University- Black Art Speaks- Highlight

Studionoize Podcast- ‘In My Life Time w/ Lavett Ballard’

Yale University Radio- Praxis- ‘Interview with Brainard Carey’

Good Day Street Talk, Fox News NY- ‘African American Art and its impact today’

Monmouth County Local Television- ‘Struggles and Success in the Arts’- PNC African American Festival, 2009

Visiting Artist Lectures

2021 Howard University- Panelist- Art for Social Change- Washington DC

Art Institute of Chicago- Visiting Artist lecture- Chicago, IL

University of the Arts- Visiting Artist Lecture- Philadelphia, PA

Rutgers University- Visiting Artist Lecture- Camden, NJ

Columbia College- Visiting Artist Lecture- New York, NY

2020 John Hopkins University- Black Womanhood: Language Art & History

2019 Tulane University- Visiting Artist Speaker Series- New Orleans, LA International Curators

2018 International- Livestream Artist Talk on Social Justice

2016 Kean University at Ocean Toms River NJ- Visiting Artist symposium

Awards and Honors

2020 Yaddo Artist Residency Summer Fellow 2020

Listed by Black Art in America as one of the ‘Top 10 Emerging Black Female Artists to Collect’

The Colored Girls Museum Artist-in-Residence

Alice C. Cole Fellowship Nominee, Wesley College

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship, Nominee through the AAMP

2016 Artist of the Year of Philadelphia- The Harvest Spoken Soul 215 1st Annual Awards

2015 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Competition Semi-Finalist- NY & Philadelphia

2014 University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA- Graduate Fellowship

Odyssey Arts Award Travel Scholarship

Gullkistan Student Artist Residency- Gulfoss, Iceland

First Place Center for the Arts of Southern NJ-Marlton NJ

Roberta K. Tarbell Art History Scholarship

Collections

U.S. Embassies program- Ambassador Natalie Brown- U.S. Embassy Kambala The Petrucci Family Foundation Art Collection

The Grant and Tamia Hill Art Collection

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University

Stockton University Art Collection

Syracuse University collection/Community Folk Arts Center

Saint Joseph’s University/Barnes Museum- shared Private Collection

ABC Studios

CBS Studios

NBC/Universal Studios

The Colored Girls Museum

African American Heritage Museum of South Jersey

Julia Ibbini

JULIA IBBINI (Jordanian & British, b. 1980)

Julia Ibbini is a visual artist and designer with a background in graphics and collage. She earned a BA (Hons) in Visual Communications from the Leeds University College of Art and Design, UK. Her work combines digital design processes and traditional craftsmanship to create highly detailed, visually complex, and delicate pieces that intersect contemporary design, art, and craft.

Studio Ibbini is an ongoing collaboration between Ibbini and Stephane Noyer, a computer scientist and maker with an interest in computational geometry. Ibbini and Noyer have worked on projects together since 2016, traversing analog and digital to create works of extreme intricacy and machined precision, but which remain distinctly human in origin. Studio Ibbini works predominantly with materials such as archival paper, veneer woods, or mother of pearl— selected for their delicate, tactile qualities—that are then layered and meshed together using a complex collaging method. Individual projects take up to a year to complete.

In 2019, Studio Ibbini received the prestigious Van Cleef & Arpels Middle East Designer Prize. Over the last few years, the work has been shown at Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival 2018, Art Basel Miami, LA Art Fair, Tashkeel Dubai and Jeddah 21,39 - 2020.

Studio Ibbini is based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

According to the artist: “My paternal family are of Syrian and Jordanian heritage. The family home in Amman is the home to many fond memories, in particular of my grandmother Aniseh sitting in her parlour surrounded by her treasured Syrian inlay furniture, the geometric patterning of endless fascination to me.

The eight-point star is one of the earliest geometric pattern design elements dating back to the 9th century. I felt drawn to the beautiful simplicity of this motif and the possibilities of creating a visually intricate piece referencing traditional wooden and mother of pearl inlay work in an unexpected and contemporary way.”

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For Aniseh

Year: 2020

Medium: Veneer woods with mother of pearl inlay

Size: 31.5 x 11.5 in (80 x 30 cm) (2 parts)

According to the artist: “Much of my work explores ornament and pattern, both ancient and contemporary - I view them as rich visual languages with lineages that cross continents and cultures. Each line/tendril and flower and shape often have a long and complex history and signify a people, a place, a time, which I find fascinating.

Even rotational symmetry, a technique I use often in the construction of compositions, has a long heritage as craftspeople through the centuries through a combination of mathematics and better tools, came to an understanding of more complex rotations.

In The People, we were able to use highly complex computing tools and algorithms to create the concentric rings and discs that underline the composition. The composition and the ornamental features within it reference a rich and complex history of pattern construction that has evolved through the centuries, buoyed forward by craftspeople, artists and artisans who mostly remain unnamed and anonymous.”

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The People

Year: 2019

Medium: Layered papers and card with ink on mylar

Size: 39 x 31 in (99 x 79 cm)

Frame size: 38.875 x 30.75 in (98.7 x 78.1 cm)

According to the artist: “For The Sands of Time, it’s this idea of a rich visual history evolving and changing into a new narrative through our contemporary perspective and use of technology. Pattern, ornament and symmetry were unfortunate casualties of Modernism and although they are very much alive today, our viewpoint of these visual languages has changed forever.

Some of the patterning used in these pieces is very ancient (early 9th century) and I felt it was important to record it by using it within my pieces in the hope that the ‘language’ as such will continue to live on and evolve.”

The Sands of Time 3.7

Year: 2022

Medium: Layered papers

Size: 16.9 x 11.4 in (43 x 29 cm)

Frame size: 19 x 13.5 (48 x 34.3 cm)

Sands of Time 5.1

Year: 2023

Medium: Layered papers

Size: 16.9 x 11.4 in (43 x 29 cm)

Frame size: 19 x 13.5 (48 x 34.3 cm)

JULIA IBBINI

Education

2002 BA (Hons) Visual Communications, Leeds University (College of Art and Design) | UK

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2023 sculptHER, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Palm Beach, FL Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL

2022 Art Miami with Long-Sharp Gallery, USA

‘Front Page’ Paper Exhibition with Long-Sharp Gallery, USA

2020 21,39 Jeddah Arts with Van Cleef & Arpels and Tashkeel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2019 Van Cleef & Arpels Design Prize Winner & Exhibition

‘The Sublime Line’, solo exhibition with Jonathan LeVine Projects, USA

2018 ‘An Ode to Ornament’, at Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Museum of Art, Sharjah, UAE

‘Adornment’, Pen & Brush, NYC, USA

‘By a Thousand Cuts’, Parlor Gallery, NJ, USA

LA Art Show, Los Angeles, USA

2017 Scope Basel Miami with Jonathan LeVine Projects, Miami, USA

Delusional 2nd Prize Award, Jonathan LeVine Projects, NJ, USA

2016 No White Walls, Annual Show, Abu Dhabi

Open Studios, Abu Dhabi

2015 No White Walls with Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi No White Walls Open Studios, Abu Dhabi

2014 No White Walls with Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi

Love Art Fair, Represented by Darger HQ, Toronto No White Walls with Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi

Select Collections

Conrad Hotels Corporate Collection, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, St Regis Hotels (Amman and Dubai locations), Vida Hotels (Downtown Dubai), Emaar Properties, Seddiqi Holding, Abu Dhabi Presidential Palace, NYU Abu Dhabi, University of Wollongong Dubai, Tamkeen, Emirates Palace, The Club Abu Dhabi, The Galleria Mall Abu Dhabi, Etihad Aviation Group.

Miriam Londoño

MIRIAM LONDOÑO (Colombian, b. 1955)

For more than twenty years, Miriam Londoño’s artistic production has focused on working with paper and the possibility of expanding its uses as a medium. Her paper artwork includes threedimensional and sculptural drawing and writing.

As subject matter, Londoño explores migration, communication, and social exclusion, focusing on how traumatic experiences can cause identity crises and cracks in memories. Reflecting on her personal experience as a migrant, Londoño became interested in language and communication, producing an artistic body of work that visually focuses on written texts.

Educated in her home country of Colombia as well as Italy and Spain, Londoño has placed works in collections across the globe. Her works have been included in museum exhibitions at the Museum Het Leids Wevershuis (Netherlands), Negev Museum of Art (Israel), Rijswijk Museum (Netherlands), Museo Maja (Colombia), Cornell Art Museum (US), and Papiermacher Museum (Austria), among others. She lives and works in Medellín, Colombia.

As subject matter, Londoño explores migration, communication, and social exclusion, focusing on how traumatic experiences can cause identity crises and cracks in memories. “Stories” uses texts from women victims of violence during the Colombian conflict, their words documented in Londoño’s paper pulp script.

Stories

Year: 2019

Medium: Handmade paper

Size: 39.375 x 31.5 in (100 x 80 cm)

According to the artist: “My first works with colored pulp were personal letters written to my relatives. In them, the weight and strength of color and the materiality of the paper were the trigger for a very intimate and inspiring connection with the theme I was working with and to the act of creating with paper. I have also used letters written by other people to their loved ones, as for example in pieces such as ‘Voices’, I transcribed the words of a daughter who writes an emotional letter to her father from a distance.”

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Voices

Year: 2007

Medium: Handmade paper

Two pieces, each 63 x 15.75in (160 x 40 cm)

Total dimension: 63 x 23.5 in (160 x 60 cm)

MIRIAM LONDOÑO

Education/Experience

2012-14 Master in Analysis of Contemporary Art, University of Barcelona, Spain

1977-79 Fine Arts, Academy of Arts, Florence, Italy

1979-80 Ancient Painting Techniques, Atelier Mario Palaggi, Lucca, Italy

1973-77 Bachelor of Arts, University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirate

2021 Paper Memories, Art Center, EAFIT University, Medellin, Colombia

2018 Calligraphy and Memory, Museo Maja, Jericó, Colombia

2017 Uncertain Transits, Gallery 18, SBK Zuid, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2016 Líneas de Fuga, Museo Juan del Corral, Santa Fé de Antioquia, Colombia

2015 Faculty of Arts, Technological University of Pereira, Pereira, Colombia

Neverending Story, Amsterdam Central Library, Amsterdam, Netherland

Gallery Witteveen, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2014 Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirate

Galerie ‘t Haentje te Paart’, Middelburg, the Netherlands

2013 Galerie 59, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SER Sociaal Economische Raad, The Hague, The Netherlands

2012 Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Netherland

Licht & Ruimt, Abcoude, The Netherlands

Galerie 106 / de Gecroonde Bel, Oosterhout, The Netherlands

2011 Gallery Clement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2010 Gallery Clement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Torpedo Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Washington, USA

2009 Gallery Arte sin Límites, Den Haag, The Netherlands

2008 Calligraphies, Bijenkorf, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Calligraphy of Conflict,TSO’AR, Leidschendam, Netherland

Gallery 59, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gallery A-Quadraat, Vorden, The Netherlands

Stichting de Grunerie – Oegstgeest, The Netherlands

2007 Gallery Paul Bardwell, Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia

Gallery De Andere Kant, Tonden, Netherland

Gallery 59, Amsterdam, Netherland

Museum Het Leids Weverhuis, Leiden, Netherland

2006 Regentenkamer, The Hague, Netherlands

2004 City Hall, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2002 Somjai Reiss Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

1988 Gallery Villa Barranca, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1984 Bank of the Republic of Colombia, Medellin, Colombia

1983 Gallery Cultural 10, Medellin, Colombia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 sculptHER, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Palm Beach, FL

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL

2022 ARTBO, Bogotá Art Fair, Galería Otros 360 grados, Stand C 29

Front Page, Long-Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, USA

Historias a la cara perdida, LA Galería, Bogotá, Colombia

Salon 25 de artistas WTA (World Textile Art), Universidad de Caldas, Manizales

Fascination Paper, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, Germany

Afectos/Perceptos, Galería Carlos Orozco, Medellin, Colombia

Korai Art, El Retiro, Antioquia

Palm Beach Modern-Contemporary, Florida, USA, Galería Long Sharp

2021 Art Miami, Florida, USA – Long-Sharp Gallery

Heart of The Square, Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA

DES-HORIZONTES, Marte 247 Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia

XVII Regional Salon of Artist (Virtual) 17 SRA, Wester Region

Small Format, Museo El Castillo, Medellin, Colombia

On the Brighter Side, Long Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, USA

Highlight en 360, Gallery Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia

Spell it Out, Long-Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, USA

2020 Holland Paper Biennial 2020, Rijswijk Museum, The Netherlands

La Cosecha del Estado, Museo del Barrio, Manizales

2019 Chicas*Chicas* Chicas*, Elvira Moreno Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia

Lecture at CLAS, Calligraphy Lettering Arts Society, British Library, London, England

Paper Languages, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia

Textual-Texture, Municipal Library of Beer-Sheva, Israel.

International Paper Art Biennale, Shanghai, China

2018 El Espejo de las Almas Simples, Universidad La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia

Panográfica, Sala U Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad Nacional, Medellin, Colombia

Sofia Paper Art, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria

Paper Global 4, International PaperArt Triennial, Stadsmuseum Deggendorf, Germany

TraCarte 2018, International PaperArt Biennial, Foggia, Italia

International Paper Art Biennial, Haacht, Belgium

2017 Farewell Exhibition, Stichting Grunerie, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands,

CODA Paper Art 2017, Museum CODA, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Out of the Box, HazArt Gallery, Soust, The Netherlands

2016 Nature to Nature, Campus da UnB – Darcy Rivero, Brasilia, Brasil

Onleesbaar, maar…/ Illegible, but … HazArt Gellery, Soest, The Netherlands

Paper Languages, Galeria El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia

Paper Conversation, Hafez Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

2015 Paper Conversation, Hafez Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Entre les lignes, LA GALERIE des Galeries Lafayette, CAP 3000 Nice, France

2th Paper Biennale 2015 ‘Pulp & Fiction’, Negev Museum of Art, Be’er Sheva, Israel

Buitenissing, Galerie Kolff, Zouterwoude, The Netherlands

Forming Words, Clotsworthy Arts Centre and Roe Valley Arts Centre, Northen Ireland, UK

Meister der Moderne, Interntationale Handwerksmesse Munchen, Germany

Visual Utterance, Cube Arts Gallery, Dubai, Arab Emirates

2014 Serendipity, Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, The Netherlands

WORDS, Maison&Object, Paris, France

Kunst in Etzenrade, Etzenrade, The Netherlands

Writing and Object, Gallery Handwerkskammer fur Munchen und Oberbayern, Germany

Kunst en Bomen 2014, Oisterwijk, Moergestel en Heukelom, The Netherlands

2013 Galerie Atelier Gerri Grijsen, Winterswijk, The Netherlands

Grensloos Kunstverkennen, Ijhorst, The Netherlands

Book Art Exhibition, Pace University, Westchester, NY, USA

2012 Book Art Object, National Library of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

Pulchri Studio, Najaars Salon, The Hague, Netherland

Open Stal, Olderberkoop, The Netherlands

Popierukas, Gallery Balta, Kaunas, Lithuania

Papier global – Global Paper II, Deggendorf, Germany

Greenwich Public Library’s Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA

NG Art Gallery, Chippendale, Sydney, Australia

ArtTax Gallery, Doesburg, The Netherlands

2011 Lustrumexpositie, Galerie Bibliotheek Zelhem, Zelhem, The Netherlands

Pulchri Studio, Work of New Members – The Hague, The Netherlands

Papier Textiel 4 – Galerie Fort A/D Drecth, Uithoorn, The Netherlands

Najaarssalon Pulchri Studio – The Hague, The Netherlands

Contrasten – Galerie Wit – Wageningen, The Netherlands

Faszination Papier- Kunstverein Burghausen, Germany

Pulchri Studio – The Hague, The Netherlands

World Art Center – Delft, The Netherlands

2010 Art in Redlight – Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lochem, Artfair – The Netherlands

Gallery Arte sin Límites – The Hague, The Netherlands

Stichting de Grunerie – Oegstgeest, The Netherlands

2009 Gallery Maijke Hüsstege, Den Bosch, The Netherlands

PAN Amsterdam – Gallery Maijke Hüsstege

The New Brewery Arts – Cirencester, United Kingdom

Rotary Club Geleen, Sittard, Netherland

Kunsthuis KEK – Epe, Netherland

Tracarte 3 – International Exhibition on Papermade Works, Foggia, Italy

Burnie Regional Art Gallery – Burnie, Tasmania, Australia

5ta. International Biennial of Textil Art -Buenos Aires, Argentina

2008 Museum 25th May, Belgrade, Serbia

Galerie Bibliotheek Zelhem, Zelhem, Netherland

Gallery Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria

Art Book Fair, Leiden, Netherland

Kaye College, Art Gallery, Beersheba, Israel

Art Fair, Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherland

6a.Triennale International du Papier, Charmey, Switzerland

Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton on Thames, London, England

Papiermacher Museum, Steyrermühl, Austria

Museum Papiernictwa, Duszniki, Poland

Wasser I Zeichen, Bremen, Germany

Paper Museum, Capellades, Spain

Beverly Art Gallery, Yorkshire, England

Piece Hall, Halifax, England

Collins Gallery, Glasgow, England

2007 Paper Road, Deggendorf, Germany

Gallery 1, Sittard, Netherland

Weverij Museum, Geldrop, Netherland

Castillo Santa Catalina, Cadiz, Spain

Kunsthuis Secretarie, Meppel, Netherland

Artzone, Edmon Green, London, England

Oavada Gallery, Oxford, England

Beldam Gallery, London, England

Zaid Business School, Oxford, England

Sherbone House, Dorset, England

2006 Buddenbrooks Gallery, The Hague, Netherland

Holland Paper Biennale, Museum Rijswijk and Coda Museum, Netherland

Paper Road, Steyrermühl, Austria

PapierWespe, Vienna, Austria

2004 City Hall, Rotterdam, Netherland

Espace Provisoire, Brussels, Belgium

Lat/Entes, National Gallery of Arts, Bucharest, Rumania

Paper Road, Sori Arts Center, Jeonju, Korea

Awards

2018 Innovation Award, International Paper Show. Sofia, Bulgaria

2008 Audience Award, Sixth Paper Triennial, Charmey, Switzerland

Second Prize, Sixth Paper Triennial, Charmey, Switzerland

Lakwena Maciver

LAKWENA MACIVER (British, b. 1986)

Lakwena Maciver creates painted prayers and meditations which respond to and reappropriate elements of popular culture. Exploring the role of the artist as mythmaker, with their use of acid-bright color and bold typographic text, her paintings act as a means of decolonization, subtly subverting prevailing mythologies. Her approach is instinctive and autodidactic, producing visceral, rhythmic and immersive panel paintings, iconic murals and installations.

Challenging both the external and the internalized voice of mass media, Maciver has created works in the public realm internationally, from installations at Tate Britain, Somerset House, Facebook and the Southbank Centre in London, to a juvenile detention center in Arkansas, a monastery in Vienna, and the Bowery Wall in New York City.

The artist is represented by Vigo Gallery (London).

According to the artist: “At the start of 2020 I began making a painting that read ‘Nothing Can Separate Us’ to hang in my home. Shortly after the pandemic broke out, we went into lockdown, and the painting took on a wider meaning. Those sentiments seem especially poignant now as we come out of lockdown and (cities) come back together.”

Nothing Can Separate Us

Year: 2022

Medium: Hand-stitched patchwork with appliqué

Size: 86.5 x 144 in (219.7 x 365.8 cm)

Edition 1 of 2

Exhibition History: Tate, 2022

[Not for sale]

LAKWENA MACIVER

Education/Experience

2009 BA (Hons) Graphic Design, London College of Communications, UAL

Selected Exhibitions

2021 Jump Paintings, Vigo Gallery, London, UK

‘I’ll Bring You Flowers’ Aerial BB Paintings, Somerset House

2020 Homeplace, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK

2019 Island, Ramp Gallery, London, UK

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Vigo Gallery, Somerset House, London, UK

2018 It Takes a Village, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK

2017 Unfold Space, London, UK

The Future’s Gold, KK Outlet, London, UK (Solo)

2016 Up In The Air, Boxpark, London, UK (Solo)

2015 They Made This, Protein Gallery, London, UK

It’s Summer Time, The Rag Factory, London, UK

I Remember Paradise, Papillion Art, Los Angeles, USA (Solo)

2014 Africa Calling, The Southbank Centre, London, UK

Present 002, Ivy’s, London, UK

Cash, Cans and Candy, Hilger Brot Gallery, Vienna, Austria

First Eleven, The KK Outlet, London, UK

Pick Me Up, Somerset House, London, UK

BAD, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK

2013 Women on the Walls, Goldman Gallery, Miami, USA

In those Jeans, The Old Shoreditch Station, London, UK

2012 Words of Wisdom, The KK Outlet, London, UK

2010 Afrikan Bazaar, Papillion Institute of Art, Los Angeles, USA

Junction, London Design Festival, London, UK

2009 LOT 78 Presents..., The Red Lion, London, UK

Commissions

2022 Citizen M Hotel, Brickle, Miami, USA (Forthcoming)

Citizen M Hotel, Victoria, London, UK (Forthcoming)

2021 CoLAB, Temple, London, UK (Forthcoming)

2020 Basketball Court, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA

2018 Cricklewood Station, TATE, London, UK

Life is Beautiful, Las Vegas, USA

The Color Factory, New York, USA

Southbank Centre, London, UK

Page Green, Seven Sisters, London, UK

Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK

2017 Seamen’s Hall, Somerset House, London, UK

Facebook, London, UK

2017 Houston Bowery Wall, New York City, USA

No Limit, Boras, Sweden

ROW, Los Angeles, USA

Sebastian County Juvenile Detention Centre, Arkansas, USA

Duveen Gallery, Tate Britain, London, UK

2016 Carnaby Street, Shaftesbury PLC, London, UK

The Southbank Centre, London, UK

2015 Frame for Nike, London, UK

2014 Life is Beautiful, Las Vegas, USA

Red Bull Music Academy, London, UK

Girleffect, London, UK

Hilger Brot Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2013 American Eagle, Miami, USA

Wynwood Walls, Miami, USA

ASHLEY NORA

(American, b. 1989)

In 2012, Ashley Nora graduated with a degree from Anderson University and started her career as a Chemist. In 2019, she made the bold decision to leave her career in science to pursue art full-time. Nora captures real moments of human interaction through portraiture using multiple mediums to express different ideas; she travels the world and creates public art for people in every economic and social background to experience. She believes that impact is more important than income, and her desire is to impact communities through her gift and inspire others to follow their dreams and do the same.

According to the artist: “The subject in this painting is experiencing a transformation of sorts, a process that starts in the mind with reminders to oneself of past victories over obstacles. This memory invites others’ thoughts that allow her to forgive herself for accepting the burden of others expectations and failures to reciprocate love. With a present and weightless mind, the subject begins to ascend into a space of possibility, prosperity and gratitude. She finds her journey to this new destination free of trouble as her feet no longer touch the ground.”

Float

Year: 2023

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9)

Frame size: 49.75 x 61.75 in (126.3 x 156.8 cm)

ASHLEY NORA

Education/Experience

2012 Bachelor of Arts, Anderson University, Anderson, IN

Boards

Vice President, the Eighteen Art Collective

Board Member and Visiting Artist, Children’s Museum

Selected Exhibitions

2022 Indianapolis Museum of Art, We Are Culture, Indianapolis, IN

GangGang Presents : BUTTER2, Indianapolis, IN

Saks Fifth Gallery, Eighteen Collective Black History Month Exhibition, Indianapolis, IN

St. Luke UMC Gallery, 2Waves, 1Vibe, Indianapolis, IN

Meet the Artist XXXIV, Indianapolis, IN

2021 Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Chicago, IL

Indianapolis Central Library, Women of Color Exhibition, Indianapolis, IN

18 Piece Ensemble Optical Orchastra, A Visual Symphony, Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Art Center, IVII: 365+ , Indianapolis, IN

GangGang Presents : BUTTER, Indianapolis, IN

2020 Indianapolis Art Center, IVII, Indianapolis, IN

Art and Vinyl, Indianapolis, IN

2019 Raw: Natural Born Artists Presents, IMPACT, Indianapolis, IN

Commissions

2023 Pacers, I Know I Can, Live Painting, Indianapolis, IN Christel House School, Anything Is Possible, mural, Indianapolis, IN

2022 Indianapolis Arts Council Jiffy Lube, Into Existance, mural, Indianapolis, IN

Cumberland Indiana Street mural, IMAGINE, mural, Cumberland, IN

Jrue Holiday (Milwaukee Bucks), Black Excellence, mural, Milwaukee, Wl

The Church International/ Abba’s House Orphanage, DREAM, Estwitini, Africa

P30, Relax, Rebuild, Relate, mural, Indianapolis, IN Young & Established Youth Center, Im Rooting for Everybody Black, Mural, Evansville, IN

2021 Swish Indy, Soaring Possibilities, Photographic mural, Monument Circle, Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Children’s Museum, Art of Protest, Indianapolis, IN

BUTTER, Keepers of Culture, mixed media mural, Stutz Building, Indianapolis, IN

Gordan’s Milkshake, Black Joy, mixed media mural,Indianapolis, IN

US Soccer Foundation, Oscar Charleston Court Mural, Indianapolis, IN

REV, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, Indianapolis, IN Clay Terrace Shopping Mall, God’s Hand, mixed media mural, Carmel, IN

2020 Black Lives Matter, mixed media street mural, Indianapolis, IN US Soccer Foundation, Arsenal Technical High School Soccer Court Mural, Indianapolis, IN

Publications

“One City’s Steps to Artistic Diversity,” New York Times 2023

Q+A with Visual Artist Ashley Nora, PATTERN, Khaila King, May 2021

“Art’s Political Influence: How artists continue to fuel the racial justice movement,” Newsy Washington, DC, Amber Strong, February 2021

“Woman’s Painting in Downtown Indianapolis represents the story of dreams,’’ WRTV ABC News, Cameron Ridle, April 2021

“PBS America Portrait,” PBS, January 2021

“Black Love Saves Lives,” Midwest Leak (cover story), 2021

“Indianapolis Preserving And Presenting Its Activist Art From the Tumultuous Summer Of 2020,” Forbes, Chad Scott, November 2020

Kimiko Yoshida

KIMIKO YOSHIDA (Japanese, b. 1963)

Kimiko Yoshida was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1963. Feeling oppressed as a woman, she left Japan in 1995 and moved to France to pursue her artistic ambitions. “Since I fled my homeland to escape the mortifying servitude and humiliating fate of Japanese women, I amplified through my art a feminist stance of protest against contemporary clichés of seduction, voluntary servitude of women, identity and the stereotypes of gender,” Yoshida says. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles and the Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Le Fresnoy. Since gaining her artistic freedom, Kimiko Yoshida has been working prolifically. Her work revolves around feminine identity and the transformative power of art.

In her most recent project, “Painting, Self-Portrait” she wears elaborate costumes and paints her skin in a monochrome color that matches the background. The monochromatic elements accentuate the fashion of Yoshida’s costumes and drown out the individuality of the artist. For the artist, the costume is “the field of diversion, detournement, and deflection.” The visual elements, coupled with the titles’ reference to artists and paintings of the past from Titian to Warhol are meant to come together to challenge conventional notions and traditions of art and cultural identity. “I want an image that tries to rethink its own meanings and references.” By constantly changing what at first appears to be a self-portrait, Yoshida says, “I am basically saying that there is no such thing as a self-portrait. Each of these photographs is actually a ceremony of disappearance. It is not an emphasis of identity, but the opposite—an erasure of identity.”

For her self-portraits, Yoshida received the International Photography Award in 2005. She continues to exhibit worldwide, and her work is found in the permanent collections of such museums as the Fine Arts Museum of Houston, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.

The artist is represented by Holden Luntz Gallery (Palm Beach, FL).

In her most recent project: “Painting, Self-Portrait”, Kimiko Yoshida wears elaborate costumes and paints her skin in a monochrome color that matches the background. The monochromatic elements accentuate the fashion of Yoshida’s costumes and drown out the individuality of the artist, for whom the costume is “the field of diversion, detournement, and deflection.” The visual elements, coupled with the titles’ reference to artists and paintings of the past from Titian to Warhol are meant to come together to challenge conventional notions and traditions of art and cultural identity. Yoshida desires an “image that tries to rethink its own meanings and references”. By constantly changing what at first appears to be a self-portrait, Yoshida says, “I am basically saying that there is no such thing as a self-portrait. Each of these photographs is actually a ceremony of disappearance. It is not an emphasis of identity, but the opposite—an erasure of identity.”

Rorschach Yoshida LXXXIV (Gold Merchant M) (Unique)

Year: Executed in 2018

Medium: Archival pigment photograph and acrylic paint on canvas

Signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity

Size: 29.5 x 29.5 in (74.9 x 74.9 cm)

Frame size: 31 x 31 in (78.7 x 78.7 cm)

Rorschach Yoshida LXXXVI (Monna Lisa) (Unique)

Year: Executed in 2018

Medium: Archival pigment photograph and acrylic paint on canvas

Signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity

Size: 29.5 x 29.5 in (74.9 x 74.9 cm)

Frame size: 31 x 31 in (78.7 x 78.7 cm)

KIMIKO YOSHIDA

Education/Experience

1986 Bachelor of Arts, Faculty of Literature, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

1995 Tokyo College of Photography, Japan

1996 École nationale supérieure de la photographie, Arles, France

1999 Studio national des arts contemporains-Le Fresnoy, France

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Palazzo Borghese, Rome, Italy: Retrospective

2022 Homo Faber, Palazzo Amalteo, Venice, Italy: Made in Kyoto

Oustau De Baumaniere, Les Baux-de-Provence, France: Urushi-e/Festival a-part

2020 Museo Civico, San Sepolcro (Toscana), Italy: Biennale d’arte del vetro contemporaneo

Centro Cultural La Cupula, Merida (Yucatan), Mexico: Senza Immagine

Jl Modern Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA: Iridescent Beauty

Galerie Orbis Pictus, Paris, Frances: MasKarades

2019 The Venice Glass Week, Venice, Italy: The Ashes of My Art

Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl, USA: Avatars

Fondation Salomon Pour L’art Contemporain, L’Abbaye, France: Baroques

2018 Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia: Photobiennale

2017 The Wilfrid Israel Museum, Hazorea, Israel: Muga. Selfessness

The Venice Glass Week, Venice, Italy: My Glass Self

Schouwburg, Amstelveen, Netherlands: Painting. Selfportrait

Galerie Dukan, Paris, France: Peinture & Photographie

2016 Musée Du Masque, Binche, Belgium: Masques de soi

Japan Cultural Center-Embassy Of Japan, Brussels, Belgique: Grimasques

Rosas & Xocolate, Merida, Mexico: True Lights

2015 Paramount Pictures Studios, Los Angeles, USA: Solo Show at Paris Photo LA

Noguchi-Ke/Tangible Cultural Property, Kyoto, Japan: Kyotographie

Marx Halle, Vienna, Austria: Solo Show at Viennacontemporary

Oustau De Baumaniere, Les Baux-de-Provence, France: Face2Face/Festival a-part

Venice In A Bottle, Venice, Italie: Who Am I?

Maison Européenne De La Photographie, Paris, France: Ermitage Award 2015

Centro Cultural De La Cupùla, Merida, Mexico: Luces Íntimas

2014 Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA: Something Blue

Galerie Pac, Paris, France: Qui est KY ?

2013 Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Lebanon: Paintings & Mirrors

Festival Internacional De La Imaginen, UAEH, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico

Galerie Pac, Paris, France: Pourquoi Venise?

ALM, Ramatuelle, France: Kimiko Yoshida

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA: Picturing Xanadu

Power Station Of Art Museum, Shanghai, China: Gifts from Xin Dong Cheng

Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France: Galerie Tanit

The 2212, Venice, Italy : Tutti Frutti

2022 Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France: Galerie Tanit

The 2212, Venice, Italy : Grand Opening

2021 Cromwell Place, London, UK: & Someting Blue (Galerie Tanit)

Le Garage, Amboise, France: Vivace & Troppo - Le Verre à l’état libre

Galerie Marguerite Milin, Paris, France: Ils ont dit oui

2020 Jl Modern Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA: Curated Collector

Mercosul Biennal, Porto Alegre, Brazil: Femenino(s)

The Venice Glass Week, Venice, Italy: L’Impermanence poignante de tout

2019 La Conciergerie, Paris, France: Marie-Antoinette, Métamorphoses d’une image

Casa Faller, Merida (Yucatan), Mexico: Feria de Arte contemporaneo

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Palm Beach, FL, USA: Expanding

Galerie Pac, Paris, France: Japonisme(s)

2018 Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland: On a Pedestal

Castletown House, Dublin, Ireland: On a Pedestal

The Photography Show, AIPAD/PIER 94, New York, USA : Holden Luntz Gallery

Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany: Narrated

The Bid Art Space, Pesaro, Marche, Italy: The Face: Portrait Evolution

Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France: Galerie Tanit

Art Miami, One Herald Plaza, Miami, Fl, USA: Holden Luntz Gallery

La Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy: Sidereus Nuncius

2017 Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France: Collectionner, le Désir inachevé

Fondation Salomon Pour L’art Contemporain, Annecy, France

The Photography Show, AIPAD/PIER 94, New York, USA: Holden Luntz Gallery

Galerie Pac, Paris, France: 20 ans pour Aubagnac

Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany: Où poser la tête ?

Galerie Pac, Paris, France: Japonismes

2016 Museo Del Vetro, Murano, Venice: Murano Oggi

Assemblée Nationale-Palais Bourbon, Paris, France: 1936

Institute Of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, Mauritius

The Tel Aviv Artist House, Tel-Aviv, Israel: Green Celadon

Imaginart Gallery, Barcelona, Spain: Miradas de Mujer

Maison Des Arts, Rouen, France: Make-up Time

L’oratoire, La Rochelle/MARCHÉ COUVERT, Sens/PALAIS DES CONGRÈSLES

Ursules, Thonon-les-Bains/CHAPELLE DES PÉNITENTS

Bleus, La Ciotat, France: 36/36

Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl, USA: Stories Untold

Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl, USA: Contemporary Voices in Color

BRAFA, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium: Galerie Patrice Trigano

Galerie Marguerite Milin, Pairs, France: L’Instance de la lettre

Musée De L’horlogerie, Saint-Nicolas d’Aliermont, France

Musée Le Carroi, Chinon, France: Les Invendus

2015 Centurylink Center, Seattle, USA: Seattle Art Fair

Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA: Spring Masters (Holden Luntz Gallery)

Photo London, Somerset House, London, England: Galerie Caroline Smulders

TEFAF, Maastricht, Netherlands: AXA Art

Kasteel D’urseL, Belgium: Sweet 18

Frac Réunion, Saint-Denis, La Réunion

Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France: Galerie Patrice Trigano

Brafa, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium: Galerie Patrice Trigano

Vitraria Museum-Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Venice, Italy:

Precious de Picasso a Jeff Koons

Collections

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada

Joey Tanenbaum Collection, Toronto, Canada

Diane Von Furstenberg, New York, NY, USA

The Harry B. Macklowe Collection, NY, USA

Fine Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA

The Moquay Collection, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

The Stephane Jansen Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

RuArts Foundation, Moscow, Russia

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Phoenix Insurances Ltd, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Jervis Center, Dublin, Ireland

Sheika Paula Mubarak Al-Sabah, Dar Noor, Kuwait

Univest Group, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turquey

Picciotto Collection, Beirut, Lebanon

Le Yacht Club Beirut, Lebanon

Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan

Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan

Grand Marble, Kyoto, Japan

Power Station of Art, Shanhai, China

Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

Fondation Valmont, Venice, Italy

The Marianne & Pierre Nahon Collection, Venice, Italy

The 2212, Venice, Italy

The Linda & Guy Pieters Collection, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

Lhoist Group, Bruxelles, Belgium

Maison Delvaux, Brussels, Belgium

The Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Fototeca Nacional del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), Mexico

Cúpula Cultural Center (CCC), Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Museo Soumaya, Mexico

Museo das Artes-Casa das Mudas, Madeira, Portugal

Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain

Collection David Brolliet, Geneva, Switzerland

Maison européenne de la photographie (MEP), Paris, France

Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF), Paris, France

Denyse & Philippe Durand-Ruel, Paris, France

Bank Neuflize/ABN AMRO, Paris, France

Meeschaert Bank Collection, Paris, France

Price Waterhouse Coopers, Paris, France

AXA Art, Paris, France

Yves Klein Archives, France

Veuve Clicquot, Reims, France

Ville d’Angers, France

Ville des Baux-de-Provence, France

Arthus-Bertrand Jewellery, Paris, France

Puig Collection, Paris, France

Fondation Guerlain, Paris, France

Colette Tornier, Tour Saint-Ange, Seyssins, France

Château La Coste, Provence, France

FRAC, La Réunion, France

Commission by Centre national de la photographie (CNP),Paris, France

Commission by Olympus France, Paris, France

Commission by Fondation Claude Pompidou, Paris, France

Commission by Olympus Europa, Hamburg,

Commission by AXA Art, Cologne, Germany

* Full CV available on request