Gabriela-Alexandra Muñoz

As a multimedia(um) artist, Gabriela-Alexandra Munoz self-identifies as a painter. Through her work, Munoz intents to shed light to societal issues in minorities and marginalized communities in order to decentralized the power structure and self-definition. By using color and form as a pivotal point in conveying various societal issues. Munoz does this through a very personal level and referring to her own experiences in the hopes of making this a universal matter. As a first generation Latin-american Woman, it is essential that her work comes from utter honest and consequently experience. Munoz tries to bring these references to whatever medium she has at the reach of her hands. The work is raw, unfiltered and unrefined.
Most of her works deal with the repercussions of centralized power structures, that being in the realm of mental-health, race, class and/or gender.
Munoz’s work deconstructs her interior and exterior experiences in order for the audience to form a connections with the ‘objects’ being portrayed as well as the interaction. The viewer no longer is a stand-byer, but a player within the game. Without this participatory viewer, the piece would seize to exist,
or at least its function would not be what was intende...

EDUCATION
2008-2011 Langara College; Associate degree; Fine Arts
2012 Universidad de Chile, Faculty of Fine arts; Painting, Exchange
2013-2014 Emily Carr University of Art + Design; BFA; Painting Major, Minor in Curatorial Practices.

EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS
-2009 Buffalo Lounge, Langara College, Prints - Vancouver, BC
-2010 Buffalo Lounge, Langara College, Paintings - Vancouver. BC
-2010 Funds, Chapel Arts; Curator - Vancouver, BC
-2011 Student Grad Show, Langara College; Mixed Media, Paintings - Vancouver
-2012 Exibicion Grupal, Universidad de Chile; Drawing & Experimental Animation Santi-ago, Chile
-2012 Group Exhibition, Taller Credito; Residency - Santiago, Chile
-2012 Pacto; Arte y Sensualidad; Curator - Santiago, Chile
-2012 DANCE; Video Projection & Installation, Local Project - Santiago, Chile
-2012 Feria Mas Deco, Artist Assistant; Cristian Elizalde & Jose Romussi - Santiago, Chile
-2013 Photographs & Paintings, Local Project Gallery – Santiago Chile
-2013 Sound Installation – Quad Show, ECUAD – Vancouver, BC -2014 Emily Carr Grad Show - Vancouver, BC -2014 Collective Exhibition - Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan