Shana Patry

Shana Patry is a painter focusing on animals.

She depicts surreal scenes as if suspended in time and silence, blending realistic animals with strange elements to create imaginary compositions. She aims to inspire the viewer in finding their own interpretation through their personal values and symbolism.

Her hybrid practice in painting and digital arts combines traditional techniques with new technologies such as digital collage and databending. She enjoys integrating visual distortions into her work, such as glitches, pixels, and elements drawn from the iconography of old computers. For Shana, it feels as though technology is engulfing nature, like a parasite.

Her painting techniques, specialized in hyperrealistic animal representations, stand in contrast to the sterile nature of machines and technological devices. She seeks to create immersive experiences and to renew the medium of painting by combining it with digital media.

She is interested in duality, antonyms, contrasts, and oppositions, as well as the ambivalence between certainty and uncertainty, the cycle of life and death, and the traces of our existence. Inspired by nature and biology, She explores ecological dynamics, highlighting the role of humans in a technolog...

Shana Patry is a visual artist from Saguenay (QC) Canada

Supported by her family from a very young age, she took oil painting classes between the ages of 8 and 12. After choosing all the artistic options available in high school, she began her college studies in Visual Arts at Cégep de Jonquière in 2013. At the same time, she started selling her work online through social media, and took part in various small group shows and artisan markets. She graduated in January 2016 and has since devoted herself fully to her art.

Seeking new challenges, in 2019 she completed a professional specialization certificate in launching an artistic business, followed in 2020 by an intensive one-year online program at the Milan Art Institute. She is a soon to be graduate of the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Visual Arts at Université du Québec at Chicoutimi (UQAC).

Since 2022, Shana has been teaching acrylic and oil painting at the Ateliers d’Arts Plastiques de Saguenay, driven by her desire to share her knowledge. Her work has been featured in several group exhibitions in Canada and in Morocco.

2025
September: « Fragmentations animales » (Solo show) Bibliothèque de St-Félicien QC
April: « Diffractions » (Group show) Galerie l’Œuvre de l’Autre, Saguenay QC

2024
June: « Boardshow 3e édition » (Group show) Brix, Montréal QC
January: « Décadence » (Solo show) Vitrine de la Galerie l’œuvre de l’autre, Saguenay

2023
November: « Delirium » (Group show) International Festival of Video Art (FIAV) - Casablanca Morocco
November: « Collectif Musaicum » (Group show) Gallery studio Yann Lemieux, Québec QC
September: « Nouvelles Acquisitions » (Group show) Galerie l’Œuvre de l’Autre, Saguenay QC
June: « Boardshow 2e édition » (Group show) L’Original gallery, Montréal QC
May: « Résonances » (Group show) Collectif Amalgame, Centre Inouï, St-Siméon QC

2022
December: « Perceptions » (Group show) Collectif Amalgame, TOUTTOUT, Saguenay QC
October: « Solivagant » (Solo show) Maison de Thé la Théière à l’envers, Saguenay
« Cult of Meow VI » (Group show) Gristle Art Gallery

2020 >:
2020: Envision Arts online gallery (Group show) Black and white III online
2018: « ÉPHÉMÈRE » (Solo show) Maison de Thé la Théière à l’envers, Saguenay
2017: « Monologue Imagé » (Solo show) Galerie d’Art du Cégep de Jonquière
2016: « Fauna Obscura » (Solo ...