Julia Kohane

Julia Kohane
New York, New York, USA

STATEMENT

I am drawn to surreal imagery: fragile, solitary figures adrift in fractured or dreamlike landscapes. These settings become emotional terrains, capturing feelings of alienation, disorientation, memory, uncertainty, and transformation. They reflect both the external chaos of the world and the quiet unravelings we experience within. Rather than telling linear stories, I seek to create atmospheres—spaces shaped by memory and imagination, where the familiar takes on a strange, dreamlike charge. My collages often circle themes of loss, isolation, metamorphosis, and the search for meaning amid destruction and change. My hybrid process merges digital sourcing, hand-cut assembly, and digital refinement. The works are rephotographed and finalized as high resolution digital images, preserving the texture and intimacy of their origins. Each piece can be reprinted in various sizes while retaining its layered complexity. The resulting images dissolve linear time and drift between past, future, memory, and myth. They inhabit the tension between the virtual and the tangible, the enduring and the fleeting—worlds of disorientation where perception itself becomes unstable.

BIO

Julia Kohane is a New York–based collage artist. Since 2024, she has used a hybrid process of hand-cut assembly and digital refinement. Her work explores memory, myth, transformation, alienation, and the tension between inner experience and outer collapse, creating surreal worlds where fragile figures move through charged spaces. She has exhibited in the U.S. and Europe, including “Doppia Visione” (Divulgarti Group, Naples, Italy); “Show Off Your Art 2025!” (KBM Gallery, online); “Places and Spaces” (Decagon Gallery, online); “Echoes: Art Inspired by Nature” (Conversations with Artists, online); and “Mythology Exhibition” (Naturalist Gallery, online). Upcoming projects include “Surreal Visions” (Limner Gallery, Hudson, New York); Art Walkway – 6th Edition (Divulgarti Group, Milan, Italy); “Architecture Invisibili” (Divulgarti Group, Venice, Italy); “Memories and Future Horizons” (Nartwork APS, Ikonica Art Gallery, Milan, Italy); “Fragments of the Future” (M.F.eventi, La Pigna Gallery, Palazzo Maffei Marescotti, Rome, Italy); “Childhood Nostalgia–virtual exhibition and artist interview” (Women In Arts Network, online); and the catalogue Jubilee of Hope: Art as a Way for Rebirth. Her work has been featured by Photo Trouvée Magazine (2025) and highlighted in Contemporary Collage Magazine’s “Works We Loved” (2025).

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