Anja Musura

Statement

Anja Musura is a Toronto-based, multi-media Artist making experimental, conceptual, minimal art about light, energy and sound. A graduate of OCAD University, her current projects focus on the unseen within the seen – the energy that objects, light, and sound retain and transmit. Her body of work offers themes of escapism and flux – an invitation into the dreamscape for the viewer to escape in and outside of themselves. She uses a minimal color palette with a focus on space, shape, and texture. Her current work is explored via photography, 3D objects and materials, painting, and digital media.

GlogauAIR Project

Digital is a continued series on the exploration of sound to visual. A study on synesthetic process – music enters as energy and exits onto the page – I am the conduit to place it. The process is to include minimalist, black and white digital drawings printed large-scale and/or digitally projected into spaces for immersive experiences to engulf the viewer and/or painted black and white, experimental abstracts. The materials I will use will be paper and/or canvas, paint, and/or a projector, an ipad, a laptop. The intent is to create a series that reflects sound to visual in a minimalist, experimental format, and to invite the viewer into an immersive experience to interact, absorb, and be absorbed by the pieces. My intent is to communicate the unseen energy of sound to visual, to invite the viewer into the energy of the pieces – into a portal of the unknown.

Drawing and New media

CV Summary

EDUCATION

• 2021 – BFA – OCAD University, Toronto
• 2016 – College Certificate in Art Fundamentals – Seneca Polytechnic, Toronto
• 2014 – 8-week Screen Printing Course – Open Studio, Toronto
• 2014 – Matthew Barney – Artist Talk + Screening, Toronto

INTERNSHIPS & VOLUNTEERING

• 2015 – Andy Warhol Revisited: A Mirror for Today – Revolver Gallery, Toronto
• 2015 – Abbozzo Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2022-2023 – Art Consultant – PI Fine Art, Toronto
• 2020-2022 – Gallery Curator – RH, Toronto
• 2015 – Gallery Manager – Off-site at Love Art event for Abbozzo Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto
• 2015 – Gallery Associate – Abbozzo Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto

CURATING

• 2015 – Solo Exhibition for Canadian Contemporary Artist Heather Horton – Abbozzo Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto

EXHIBITIONS

• 2020 – OCAD – Off-site Pop-Up, Toronto
• 2019 – OCAD – Off-site Pop-Up, Toronto
• 2018 – OCAD – 2nd Year Exhibition, Toronto
• 2017 – OCAD – 1st Year Exhibition, Toronto
• 2014 – Pancakes and Booze Pop-Up Exhibition, Toronto

RESIDENCIES

• 2023 – On-line Artist in Residence at GlogauAIR, Berlin

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