Juliana Gagne

I am a queer and disabled multidisciplinary artist and designer. I am from the Northeast US originally and currently located in Toronto, Canada. My art is greatly inspired by family stories, genealogy, Place-Memory, the Spirit World and the unconscious mind. I work in a variety of media ranging from illustration to experimental photography and video art and I greatly enjoy mixing media and techniques.

My MFA thesis explored the question: how does water act as an inter-dimensional portal to the Spirit World? I further examined this through the cultural lens of how water acts as a boundary and amplifier for the Spirit World. I answered this question through a thesis paper and an exhibition that was an immersive installation of cyanotype sculptures and experimental video projections.

I am a white artist, a descendant of settlers toTurtle Island. My ancestors were Mormon, Atheist, Jewish and Christian. They came from Celtic Nations (Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Cornwall), Germany, England (early New England colonies) France (by way of Quebec), Norway, Sweden and Finland (Sápmi).

MFA from OCAD University (2026 Toronto, Canada) in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design. My primary thesis advisor was Tannis Nielsen and my secondary advisor was Julia Rose Sutherland.

BFA from Parsons School of Design (2018 New York City, US) in Fine Arts, with an exchange semester at Universität der Künste (UdK, Academy of Art Berlin) in Summer 2017.

2026: Solo Show: MFA Thesis, Echoes of Water: They Called Her a Witch
Toronto ON (Canada)

2026: Group Show: A Call for the Incomplete
MFA Thesis show: curated by Ren Critton Papp
The ArQuives, Toronto ON (Canada)

2025: Group Show: Queer Creative Processes and Ecologies
MFA Thesis show: curated by Ren Critton Papp
Toronto ON (Canada)

2025: Group Show: Opening Portals
Toronto ON (Canada)

2025: Solo Show: The Dream Dimension: Beyond the Veil
Nordic Hall at the Scandinavian Cultural Center, West Newton, MA (USA)

2025: Group show: (Dis)comfort Zones: Queer Speculations on Space and Time
OCAD, Graduate Gallery, Toronto, ON (Canada)

2025: Group show: Neither Here nor There
OCAD, Great Hall, Toronto, ON (Canada)

2024: Group show: Between Ashes and Dreams
OCAD, Great Hall, Toronto, ON (Canada)

2024: Group show: IAMD Presents, Who Are You From and the 1,000 Year Problem
OCAD, Toronto, ON (Canada)

2022: Group show: Sehnsucht
Espai Fotogràfic Can Basté, Barcelona (Spain)

2021: Lost In Translation: Art and Music Festival
Broadcast from Miami, FL (USA) and online

2020: Group show: 36 Artists and a Manifest
Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain)

2019: Solo show: California Dreaming
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