Julieta María
Birthdate: N/A
Birthplace: Colombia
Based location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Social profiles
Julieta María artist biography Film Festival Rotterdam
Julieta María artist profile 7A*11D
Julieta María profile at Hugo Ares
Biography
Julieta María (Colombia)
Julieta María is a Colombian new media artist and curator based in Toronto. Julieta holds a diploma in postgraduate studies in literature from Atlantico University in Colombia and a diploma in computer engineering from Universidad del Norte in Colombia. She completed a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with honours from York University and a master’s degree in fine arts in visual arts from York University, Toronto. Julieta’s work has expanded from filmmaking to also being a teaching assistant in the video production course at York University. She is also the co-founder, director and curator of e-fagia organization for visual media art, which is dedicated to creating, producing, and disseminating contemporary Canadian and Latin American visual media projects.
Julieta María’s studio work is based on installation, new media, and video making. Her research work is focused on technology use and reception and explores her relationship with the land as an immigrant in Canada. Her films have been showcased in exhibitions in Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe including Eyeblink: Fires with Miyung-Sun Kim and Julieta Maria (2018) at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Tierra (2013) at Centro Cultural de Argentina, Argentina, and Estárter3 at the Cellsbutton Media Festival in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In addition to participating in film and art festivals, her short film Soil, Bird (2011) was screened at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in New York, Cut (2010) at the EJECT Video-performance Festival in Mexico, and Findings (2009) at the Alucine Festiva in Toronto.
Bird (00:1:52) still
2010
Video
Image from Bird video still image, 7A*11D screening, Google Images 2023
Collective exhibitions
Julieta María video screening Eyeblink: Fires, FADO Performance Art Centre, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, 2018
Julieta María video screening collective exhibition Desire lines, curated by Art Spin’s Layne Hinton & Rui Pimenta, Toronto, 2018
Julieta María screening LIFT Debuts Films from Artist Commission: The Madvo Collection, Toronto, 2018
Julieta María press release collective exhibition Dimensión Desconocida, curated by La Usurpadora: María Isabel Rueda y Mario LLanos, Colombia 2018
Julieta María's collective exhibition Strike a cord, curated by Tamara Toledo, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2017
Julieta María press release collective exhibition Dogma, co-curated by Juan Pablo Ordóñez and Gabriela Vázquez, Sala de Arte Contemporáneo de Cuenca, Ecuador, 2016
Julieta María's collective exhibition True Patriot Love, curated by Tamara Toledo, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2015
Julieta María collective exhibition États passagers, curated by Claudia Bernal, Festival LatinArte in collaboration with la Maison de la culture de Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension, 2011
Julieta María's collective video and performance by Latin American Artists presented by e-fagia.org, curated by Arlan Londoño, Hemispheric Institute Center, New York, 2011
Julieta María's collective exhibition Awaiting your return, curated by Rodrigo Barreda, Latin American Canadian Art Projects, Toronto, 2008
Julieta María collective exhibition Idiomática, Latin American Canadian Art Projects, 2005
Interviews
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Presentations
Julieta María presentation Radiocleta Inter Access 30th Anniversary, 2014
Published work by Julieta María
Julieta María publication collective project Error origen no encontrado, 2013
Published work about Julieta María
Julieta María review by Camila Salcedo, Living in Hope, Curatorial Incubator V.16, V-tape, Toronto, 2021
Julieta María article by Juana Awad, "On smuggling as strategy and the possibility of decolonizing the Curatorial," 2020
Julieta María essay by Guillermina Buzio and Arlan Londoño, "Integración y resistencia Una mirada a las organizaciones y movimientos artísticos latinos en Canadá," Erudit, 2009
Press release
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List of Grants, Awards and Projects
Julieta María and Arlan Londoño co-curators collective screening Dystopia: On Art, and Technology, Outpost Artist Resources Organization, New York, 2012