ARTIST STATEMENT
I create surreal imagery of fragile figures in fractured landscapes—emotional terrains that mirror both external chaos and inner turmoil.
My hybrid process blends digital sourcing, hand-cut assembly, and rephotographing the finished collages. The works are finalized as high-resolution digital images and can be produced in different sizes while retaining the layered intimacy of their origins.
Rather than telling stories, I build atmospheres shaped by memory and imagination, where the familiar shifts into the strange. My collages collapse linear time, drifting between past, future, memory, and myth. These dreamscapes reflect the tension between the virtual and the tangible, the enduring and the fleeting.
Through this process, I construct new narratives, unsettle original meanings, and challenge perception of what is real, remembered, or imagined.
ARTIST BIO
Julia Kohane is a New York–based collage artist. Since 2024, she has worked through a hybrid process of digital sourcing, hand-cut assembly, and rephotographing finished collages. Her work explores memory, myth, transformation, and alienation, tracing the tension between inner experience and outer collapse as fragile figures move through surreal, charged landscapes.
She has exhibited in the U.S. and Europe, including Doppia Visione (Divulgarti Group, Naples, Italy); Show Off Your Art 2025! (KBM Gallery, virtual); Places and Spaces (Decagon Gallery, virtual); Echoes: Art Inspired by Nature (Conversations with Artists, virtual); and Mythology Exhibition (Naturalist Gallery, virtual).
Upcoming projects include Surreal Visions (Limner Gallery, Hudson, New York); Art Walkway – 6th Edition (Divulgarti Group, Milan, Italy); Architetture 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); Abyss (Memento Mori Gallery & Tattoo, Colorado); and the catalogue Jubilee of Hope: Art as a Way for Rebirth.
She was profiled by Photo Trouvée Magazine (digital, 2025) and cited in Contemporary Collage Magazine’s “Works We Loved” (digital, 2025).