Biography 

Gabriela García Luna (born 1963, Mexico) 

Gabriela García Luna is a Mexican visual artist based in Saskatchewan, Canada. Gabriela holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design and communication from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Mexico (1986). In 2020 she completed a master of fine arts at the University of Saskatchewan. Her professional career began in Mexico as a photography assistant to Manuel Alvarez Bravo in 1986, after which she continued working as a freelance graphic designer and photographer for an independent business until 1999, when she dedicated herself to travel photography. From 2006 to 2005, she was the photographer for the documentary film about and archives of the Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. Since 2010 Gabriela has worked with museum institutions and archives photographing their collections and archives. She has been the recipient of multiple awards including Independent Artists grants in 2018, 2017, and 2010 from the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Visual Arts Residency grant at the Banff Centre from the National Foundation for Culture and the Arts at the Banff Centre (2010). She has also been an artist in residence at Kashi Art Gallery in the city of Kochi in Kerala, India (2015). Gabriela’s work has been collected in international institutions including the Global Affairs Canada collection, the Saskatchewan Art Board collection, and the collection of the Government of the State of Querétaro in Mexico. 

Gabriela García Luna’s studio work is assembling photo documentaries and photo abstractions of imaginary spaces and places, exposing the inherent capabilities of the photographic medium. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions including Lucky Seven (2020) at Slate Fine Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Artist Focus - Gabriela García-Luna (2019) at Slate Fine Art Gallery, and Ponds (2018) at Slate Fine Art Gallery, Saskatchewan. Additionally, she has participated in collective exhibitions Community, Connections, and __________., curated by Biofeed Collective, in Saskatchewan, Garden of Skin (2018) at Angus-Hughes Gallery in London, United Kingdom, and Anthology (2018) at Fifth Parallel Gallery at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Ghost City III 

2011

Mixed media digital photography 

Image from video VUCAVU streaming platform

Solo exhibitions

Gabriela García Luna solo exhibition Gabriela García Luna:Breath, Slate Fine Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, 2021

Gabriela García Luna MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gabriela García Luna: Traces, Gordon Snelgrove Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, 2020 

Gabriela García Luna MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gabriela García Luna: Traces, Gordon Snelgrove Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, 2020

Gabriela García Luna press release solo exhibition, Slate Fine Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canadian Art, 2018  

Gabriela García Luna residency and exhibition overview Talking with walls, Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi, India, 2015 



Collective exhibitions

Gabriela García Luna collective exhibition and project Community, Connections, and __________.curated by Biofeed Collective, Saskatchewan 

Gabriela García Luna artwork at Papier Art Fair, Montreal and Art Toronto, Creatives Ask, Slate Fine Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, 2022 

Gabriela García Luna's collective exhibition Mind the Gap, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, 2011  

Gabriela García Luna's collective exhibition Mind the Gap, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Library, Saskatchewan, 2009- 2010

Interviews

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Presentations

Gabriela García Luna online conference Threads 2022 Speakers, Saskatoon Open Door Society, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2022

Gabriela García Luna online artist talks about An Evening of Collective Remembrance with Artists from Beyond the Stone Angel, collective exhibition Beyond the Stone Angel: Artists Reflect on the Deaths of their Parents, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, 2021

Gabriela García Luna video Meet the Artist, Art Gallery of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 2018

Gabriela García Luna press release artist talk Art Now Saskatchewan Fine Art Fair, Art Placement,  2017 

Gabriela García Luna artist talk overview by Jordan Baker, Sask Today, 2015 

Gabriela García Luna and Rob Froese, the Sask Scapes podcast by Kevin Power, I love Culture, 2014 


Published work by Gabriela García Luna

Gabriela García Luna overview of artist Rebecca La Marre, SK Arts, Saskatchewan, 2023

Published work about Gabriela García Luna

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Press release

Gabriela García Luna press release by Jocelyn Bennet, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, 2020

Gabriela García Luna press release Lattin Magazine, 2016

List of Grants, Awards and Projects

Gabriela García Luna programming workshop at Live Interactive Education Video Education Arts (LIVE Arts), Saskatchewan, 2023 

Gabriela García Luna Residence: Ask the River, Bridges Art Movement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2022 

Gabriela García Luna press residency by Anoop Menon, The New Indian Express, 2015 


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