Shuli Dura

Shuli Dura is an Uruguayan photographer born in 1996.

She began her self-taught practice at the age of fourteen becoming interested in self-portraiture. Her work is a result of transversal artistic languagues applied to photographic experimentation, frequenting as thematic axes identity, fantasy and the relationship of the human being with its environment.

Shuli is one of the youngest uruguayan artists to be considered for the National Prize of Visual Arts of her country. Her first solo exhibition was at the age of eighteen years old. She is part of several archival projects such as the Women Photograph photographic community (USA), Archivo X (UY) and the Transgender Museum of History and Art of Brazil. She currently works and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Self-taught artist. Have attended also workshops about photography, visual arts, theatrical design and art direction.

2021
-Collective online show "Transespecie" – MUTHA.
-Collective benefaction show "Fuera de serie" at Munar arte, Bs As- Argentina.
-Prize "100 años de Víctor Lima Fotografía Inédita". ----Collective exhibition "125 años del Brou" at Fundación Banco República, Mvd- Uruguay.

2020
-Collective exhibition “Mirrorball” at Centro Cultural de España, Mvd- Uruguay.

2019
-Prize Movida Joven 2018.
-Collective exhibition «SinCensura» at Teatro Solis, Mvd-Uruguay.
-Collective show “Bajo el hormigón, la playa". Mvd-Uruguay.

2018
-Photobook exhibition 4º Encuentro de Fotolibros at Centro de estudios fotográficos. Cordoba - Argentina.
-Collective exhibition DECAJÓN 10 años at Teatro Solís, Mvd- Uruguay.
-Collective exhibition Revelando Construcciones at Centro de exposiciones SUBTE. Mvd-Uruguay.
-Projects screening SlideLuck Mvd 3º edición at Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo. Mvd-Uruguay.

2017
-Collective benefactory exhibition Photography on a postcard at Theprintspace. London, UK.

2016
-Collective exhibition 57° National Prize of Visual Arts “Octavio Podestá” at Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales. Mvd-Uruguay.
-Solo exhibition ”Crisálida” at Centro de fotografía. Mvd-Uruguay.

2015
-Collective exhibition “Convive...