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Gabriela Garcia-Luna

Gabriela Garcia-Luna is a multimedia artist, born in Mexico and now based in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Her photo-based works merge analogue and digital processes, incorporating drawing, printmaking, video, and installation. Her experience-based works explore the interconnectedness of the natural world in relation human experience and its parallels though ideas of unity, separation, fragility, resilience, presence, and absence. In her research, Garcia-Luna has explored the geography of the places she has called home in Mexico, India, and Saskatchewan, relating to the memory imprinted in both the human experience and in the land. Some of her research in recent years is related to the Saskatchewan River as the conduit of life throughout space and time and among the many different communities of living species that have inhabited its geography.

Garcia-Luna's work has been presented in multiple solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, UK, and India. She has also executed community engagement projects in Mexico, Canada and India. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards and her work is part of public and private national and international collections. She holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a BDes from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in Mexico City.

Instagram: @gabriela_garcialuna

Curriculum Vitae

b. Mexico City, 1963. Based in Treaty Six Territory, Saskatchewan, Canada.

EDUCATION
MFA Studio Art, University of Saskatchewan, 2020.
Bachelor of Graphic Communication and Design, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, 1986.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, SK - Flor y Canto (Flower and Song)
2024 Contemporary Museum of Morelos Juan Soriano Gardens, Cuernavaca, Mexico - Jardin, Tiempo y Memoria
2023 Contemporary Museum of Morelos Juan Soriano, Cuernavaca, Mexico - Ecos Visuales
2023 Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina, Canada - Some Gardens
2021 Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina, Canada - Breath
2020 Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, MFA Exhibition - TRACES, Saskatoon, Canada
2019 Art Gallery of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada - EDGE
2019 Slate Fine At Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada - Artist Focus: Gabriela García-Luna
2018 Slate Fine At Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada - Ponds
2016-2018 OSAC Touring Saskatchewan, Canada - Kathgodam Express,
2015 Kashi Art Gallery, Kochi, Kerala, India - Talking with Walls
2015 Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Estevan, SK, Canada - Whitescapes.
2014 Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada - Pensive Space
2013 Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina, SK - Gathered Light
2012 Moose Jaw Cultural Centre, Moose Jaw, SK - Blue Light
2012 Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB - New Territories
2011 Mysteria Gallery, Regina, SK - New Territories
2011 The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB - What it is
2011 Mosaic Gallery, Moose Jaw, Moose Jaw, SK - New Territories & Old Walls
2010 Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, Regina Beach, SK - White Space
2007 La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, QC - Universos Relativos
2006 La fabrica de imagenes, Morelia, Mich, Mexico - Constelaciones
2005 Museo Regional de Queretaro, Queretearo, Qto., Mexico - Terra incognita
2005 Casa de Cultura Mariano Jimenez, SLP, Mexico - Caminata de Luz
2003 The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB - Sacred Space

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2024 LAGUNA Art Week, Mexico City, Mexico, Tejido VIvo - jardin de Objectos Sensoriales
2023 LatinArte Festival, Salle de Diffusion de Parc-Extension, Montreal, QC, Canada - La Memoire dans les Mains
2023 NADA, Bogota, Colombia, Titles 7
2023 330g, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, The Waterlilies Project
2023 Primera Imprenta de America, Mexico City., Titles 8
2023 Arts Placement Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Community Connections and ______.
2022 Apophony Press, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, AMBIT.
2021 McKenzie Art Gallery Regina, Canada - Beyond the Stone Angel, artists reflecting on the death of their parents.
2021 Moose Jaw, Museum & Art Gallery - Moose Jaw, SK, Canada, Fire in the Belly
2020 Neutral , Guadalajara, Mexico - ACRAR Muestra Internacional
2019 Galeria Daniel Diaz, Guadalajara, Mexico - ACRAR Muestra Internacional
2018 Angus-Hughes Galley, London UK - Garden of Skin
2018 Fifth Parallel Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatoon, SK - Anthology
2018 Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK - Anthology
2017 The Art Gallery of Swift Current. SK. Art For Sale
2017 Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, History in the Making
2016 Kashi Art Gallery, Town House /Kochi Muziris Biennale Collateral Exhibition. Kochi, Kerala, India. Landscape and Silence.
2014 Art Gallery of Regina, SK, Canada, Hope
2014 Mann Art Gallery Art Gallery, Prince Albert, SK - Relative Connections
2013 Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina, SK - You are here.
2013 Saskatchewan Arts Board Collection, SK - Creative Play
2012 Fafard Boundaries Gallery, Regina, SK - Everything in Between
2011 Dunlop Art Gallery touring exhibition Saskatchewan and Ontario - MIND THE GAP!
2011 The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, AB - Conjure the Ghost
2009 Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, SK - Speak/Memory
2006 Fundacion Sebastian, Mexico City - Lo Binario
2004 Galeria Arte Alterno, Oaxaca City, Oax.,Mexico - Vulnerables
2003-04 Museo del Carmen, Mexico States touring - Summa
2002 Galeria Libertad, Queretaro, Qto, Mexico - Concurso de Arte Libertad.
2001-02 Omnilife, Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico touring - Gran Salon de Octubre, 2001.
1999 Galeria EL ESPACIO, Mexico City, Mexico - Espacio Humano.

RESIDENCIES
2022 Self-directed residency, Mexico City, Mexico.
2015 Artist in Residence, Kashi Art Gallery. Kochi, Kerala, India,
2013 Artist in Residence, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Queen City Expo
2013 Artist in Residence, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Saskatoon Expo
2012 Artist in Residence, Moose Jaw Cultural Centre, Moose Jaw, SK
2011 FONCA Independent Artist in Residence. The Banff Centre for the Arts, AB
2007 FONCA/CALQ Artist in Residence, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, QC
2008 Invited Artist in Residence, University of Saskatchewan, Kenderdine Campus, SK
2003 FONCA Independent Artistic Residency, The Banff Centre for the Arts, AB

GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Creative Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Independent Artist Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
2020 Micro-Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
2018 Graduate Award University of Saskatchewan Graduate Scholarship (UGS), University of Saskatchewan
2017 Independent Artist Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
2011 Independent Artist Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
2011 Artistic Residency Grant at The Banff Centre. FONCA -National Foundation for Culture and the Arts, Mexico - The Banff Centre
2007 Artistic Residency Grant. La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Quebec, FONCA- CALQ /Conseil de Arts et Lettres du Quebec.
2003 Artistic Residency Grant. FONCA-The Banff Centre,
2002 First Prize in Photography. Tercer concurso de arte Libertad. CEC Queretaro, Mexico. Consejo Estatal del Estado de Queretaro y la Galeria Libertad, Mexico.
2001 First Prize in Photography. Salan de Octubre,“Gran Premio Omnilife”. Ominilife Collection and Cultural Foundation - Mexico.

PUBLICATIONS
The Language of Landscapes and Photographies, Bhangu,Noor. Blackflash Magazine 35.1 2018: 32
Landscapes and Silence, Landscapes and Silence Group 2016. ISBN 987-0-9958798-1-2
HOPE, Catalog Art Gallery of Regina, Curated by Holly Fay, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-927422-10-6
Pensive Space, Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Curator, Heather Smith, Essay by Wayne Baerwaldt,
Let there be light and things, Thrive, Saskatchewan Annual Report 2013/2014: 32,
Old Walls of Moose Jaw. An interview with Gabriela Garcia-Luna, by Wayne Baerwaldt. Blackflash Magazine 29, no.1 34-37
Mind the Gap!, Catalog. Dunlop Art Gallery, Curated by Amanda Cachia and Jeff Nye, 2010
Universos Relativos: the final voyage, in three movements, by Jean-Pierre Guay, Quebec City, QC, 2007
Universos Relativos de Gabriela Garcia-Luna by Elsa Escamilla, La Fabrica de Imagenes, Mexico, 2006

COLLECTIONS
Global Affairs Canada Collection,
Saskatchewan Arts Board
MacKenzie Art Gallery
Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery
TD Bank
Coleccion OMNILIFE, Ominilife Collection and Cultural Foundation
Collection of the Government of the State of Queretaro
KASHI Gallery Collection
Private collections in Canada and abroad

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018-2020 Drawing Foundations, University of Saskatchewan

MENTORING
2022 - Independent Mentor
2016-2017 CARFAC Foundational Program Mentor
2013-2017 Independent Mentor

WORKSHOPS
2023 Naturalize Azul, on Cyanotype, Contemporary Museum of Morelos Juan Soriano, Cuernavaca, Mor, Mexico
2108-2020 Documenting Art Work CARFAC SK
2016-2018 Light Play, Light Drawing, Listen to Dis Arts Organization, SK
2015-2016 Creative Photography, Prairie School Division, Moose Jaw, SK
2016 Documenting Art Work, Moose jaw Museum and Art Gallery, SK
2015 Light Play and Drawing, Kashi Gallery, India
2014 Light Play, Moose Jaw Cultural Centre, SK
2013-2014 Digital Photography, Moose Jaw Cultural Centre, SK
2013 Photograms, Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, SK
2012 Photograms and Darkroom techniques, Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, SK
2012 Photoshop. Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery
2011-2013 Digital Photography. Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, SK
2011 Women Connecting with Women through Art - Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, SK

RELATED WORK
Art documentation photographer since 2010 for works of Dorothy Knowles, Joe Fafard, David Thauberger, Russel Yuristy, Eric Cameron, Doug Bentham, Alison Norlen, Joan Rankin, Joanne Lyons, Marie Lannoo, Chris Gardener, George Glenn, Robert Scott, Rob Froese, Ward Schell, Heather Benning, Heather Cline, Catherine Blackburn, Zachari Logan and many others.

MEMBERSHIPS 
CARFAC
Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery
AKA Artist Run
Paved Artist Run
REMAI Modern
Latin American-Canadian Arts Project Arts Organization

BOARD WORK
PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, 2020-2023
CARFAC Saskatchewan 2018-2021
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, 2017-2019

 


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