Juliana Nelson Gagné is a multidisciplinary artist and writer with a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design (Lenape Land, New York City). They have exhibited their work in shows in the US, Canada, Germany and Spain. Notably Juliana participated in the Sehnsucht exhibition at Espai Fotogràfic Can Basté, Barcelona in 2022.
Juliana is currently in their first year of graduate school, studying Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design at OCAD University in Tkaranto (Toronto, Canada) on the land of the Mississaugas of the Credit as well as the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat Nations.
Juliana explores various media ranging from: illustration, printmaking, embroidery, photography, sound pieces and installations. Nature is a prominent theme, both in materials, motifs and inspiration: from crushing plants to make photo-sensitive emulsions for anthotypes, or drying plants to create photograms on cyanotype-coated fabric. Juliana’s work typically addresses themes of: the study of epigenetics, family history, immigration, cultural mixing, entropy and the connection between memory and land.