ABOUT
Maria Munar is a Colombian/Canadian artist based out of Calgary, Alberta. She graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts with a major in Media Arts from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2017.
She is a multidisciplinary content creator working with sculpture, photography, painting, and video. She is currently working as a freelance Video Editor and Visual Artist.
Contact
Email: munarproductions@gmail.com
Artistic Statement
As an image maker, I seek to translate my conditions of growth as a human, as an immigrant, as a woman, and as an artist. What attracts me to the medium of photography is the fluidity of the perception of images. I become the translator of a new language that exists in the materialization of a digital image. I’m excited by moments of superimposed connections, resulting from a delicate configuration of contrasting materials, intricate layers and decadent colors. By bringing photography into a three-dimensional space it creates moments of impossibility where the eye is continuously tricked and challenged through mutations and complexities. Perfection and imperfection collide in constructed landscapes that have the ability to hide, omit, reveal and transform. Leading to question the way images are understood and interpreted and to question perceptions of identity.
Education
2013-2017 Alberta College of Art + Design, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Major in Media Arts
Scholarships / Awards
2018 Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts
2017 Award Winner for Blackout Photography Exhibition
2016 Stanford Perrott Innovative Project Scholarship
2016 Homesteader’s Legacy Scholarship
2016 AIMIA - AGO Photography Prize National Finalist
2016 Continuing Arts Association Travel Scholarship
2014 Canon true originals award, Canon Canada
Select Exhibitions
2020 Arts Commons Window Gallery, Calgary Alberta, Solo
2019 Gibson Fine Art, Calgary, Alberta
2018 Re-Thinking the Image, Exposure Festival, Theatre Junction Grand, Calgary, Alberta, Group
2017 With Pulp Exhibition, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Group
2017 Blackout Photography Exhibition, Calgary, Alberta, Group
2017 Public Art Mural, containR, Springboard Performance, Calgary, Alberta, Group
2016 Spectral Illuminations, Exhibition, Emmedia, Beakerhead, Calgary, Alberta, Group
2016 Jaada Exhibition, Viljandi, Estonia, Group
2016 Sound Days Festival, Liepaja, Latvia, Group
2016 Horse Show, Performance, Alberta College of Art+ Design, Solo
2016 Marion Nicoll Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Solo
2015 Noise Show, CJSW Radio Station, Calgary, Alberta, Group
2015 Cross Over, Media Arts Department Exhibition, Alberta College of Art + Design
2015 Loft 112, 12:24 Endurance Project Documentary Screening, Calgary, Alberta, Group
2014 Canon True Originals Gallery, Canon Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Group
Professional Service
2019 Gibson Fine Art, Artist Dialogues, Producer & Video Editor, Calgary, Alberta
2019 Studio Artist, Critical Mass, Calgary, Alberta
2019 Telus Storyhive, YAHWAVE Video Editor, Calgary, Alberta
2019 ClassRoom Champions, Video Editor, Calgary, Alberta
2018 ArtSense, Showroom Manager & Digital Print Lead, Calgary, Alberta
2017 Video Editing Practicum, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta
2017 Web Design, Analog Creativity, Calgary, Alberta
2016 Production Assistant, Springboard Performance, Calgary, Alberta
2016 Director, Videographer and Editor, Munar Productions, Calgary, Alberta
2015 Training Lead, Springboard Performance, Fluid Festival, Calgary, Alberta
2015 Head Shots Videographer, Loft 112, Calgary, Alberta
Residencies
2019 Arts Commons Emerging Visual Artist Residency, Calgary, Alberta
2018 Thematic Summer Residency, Alberta Collge of Art + Design
2016 Koidu House, Jaada exhibition, Viljandi, Estonia
Articles
Morales, Yarlie. “Young Arising Artist.” Evolving City Magazine April, 2013: 4, Print.
Volunteer Service
2017 Emmedia, Particle + Wave, Box Office, Calgary, Alberta
2016 Plethora Artist Guild, Videographer, Calgary, Alberta
2015 Marion Nicoll Gallery Juror, Alberta College of Art+ Design