About Us

February 2019 Solo Exhibition: The Box, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg Sweden

Aug/Sept 2018 Collective Exhibition: Lettres, Mots et Clics..., Galerie Art'et Miss, Paris France

July 2018 Solo Exhibition: The Power of the Click, Cultural Center Castilblanco, Seville Spain

May 2017 Public Radio Interview: 93.3 Beijing International Radio, Beijing China

October 2016 Collective Exhibition: Narcisse Obligé, Savonette Electrique, Montrueil France

October 2015 Collective exhibition: Je Suis..., La Maison des Ensembles, Paris France

December 2014 Solo exhibition: From the Bed to the Lab, Duo Gallery (currently T2 Gallery), Paris France

November 2013 Public Reading: Fiction story: Bitch is a female dog, Berkely Books, Paris France

May 2013 Solo Exhibition: Paris 210 days, The Botek, Paris France

2018 Galerie Art'et Miss, Paris France

Booklet of poem "Between screen and canvas" and artwork

2018 Paris Lit Up at Culture Rapid, Paris France

Reading of poem "Between screen and canvas"

2015 Those That This Literary Journal, Issue 9

Short story: Bitch is a Female Dog, accompanied by painting

2013 The Darkness Within, Short Fiction Anthology

Short story: The West Side of Visual

2010 What Fears Become, Horror Stories Anthology, Imagin Books

Short Story: Gnaw

EXHIBITIONS

EDUCATION / RESEARCH

Lala Drona (b. 1988) is a Venezuelan-American painter and videaste, born in Denver, Colorado. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Lala Drona has since published and exhibited her work from North America to South America, and from Western Europe to Asia. Her paintings, videos, and writing explore the themes of identity, women’s bodily experience, and transitional states, all media contributing to a cohesive universe. She is currently based in Paris, France.

As a multi-media artist, Lala has created The Lala World, a dystopic universe with Artists, Muses, and Drones where inspiration is currency. Lala Drona first established the world on her blog www.basedonafact.com where she writes articles which are based on her life and hyperbolized in order to fit into her world.

Her passion for storytelling through art started at a very young age, and she believes that she did not learn to make art, but rather lives it. Lala Drona’s work draws from cultural inconsistencies of growing up as a Venezuelan-American woman with a reconstructed left breast due to medical issues at age 15. Due to having a body which does not fit into commonly agreed upon western expectations of "woman," and having to augment that body at an early age in order to fit societal definitions, Lala Drona constantly redefines categories of identity within her work.

Lala Drona held her first solo exhibition “From the Bed to the Lab,” in Paris in December 2014, at Gallery Düo in Paris, France. The following year, she exhibited a triptych of paintings: “Je suis la fin qui justifie les moyens (I am the end that justifies the means)” at the collective exhibition Je suis…, an exhibition in response to the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. The triptych recounts a journey of self-rejection and self-acceptance, and marks the beginning of Lala Drona’s use of gray.

In 2016, she exhibited at the collective exhibition “Narcisse Obligé” in Paris, where she showed a painting/mirror installation titled “Every Woman.” This piece, along with her triptych “The Power of the Click” was subsequently shown at and exhibition at Galerie Art et Miss in Paris, in 2018.

Since, Lala Drona has travelled from the Eastern Asia, to Western Europe researching topics regarding transitions from the virtual to the real in various artist residency programs. Presently, she is in Gothenburg, Sweden completing an artist and residency program.

Artist Statement:
Lala Drona plays with the idea of the mirror and reflectivity, alternate realities, the transitions through these realities and how they manifest in our daily lives. Refusing to choose just one medium, she paints, writes, and creates short films, all which take place in her artistic universe. The voyage from the synthetic to the real, and vice versa, play a significant role within her practice, and she represents these transition with her use of symmetry and grayscale. She re-contextualizes virtual media (stories, digital art, and videos) in reality through paint and canvas, tying everything together to create a cohesive and complex narrative.

FICTION / POETRY

Lala Drona (b. 1988) is a Venezuelan-American painter and videaste, born in Denver, Colorado. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Lala Drona has since published and exhibited her work from North America to South America, and from Western Europe to Asia. Her paintings, videos, and writing explore the themes of identity, women’s bodily experience, and the Internet's effect on society, all media combining together to create a cohesive universe. She is currently based in Paris, France.

Artist Statement:

Lala Drona plays with the idea of the mirror and reflectivity, alternate realities, the transitions through these realities and how they manifest in our daily lives. Refusing to choose just one medium, she paints, writes, and creates short films, all which take place in her artistic universe. The voyage from the synthetic to the real, and vice versa, play a significant role within her practice, and she represents these transition with her use of symmetry and grayscale. She re-contextualizes virtual media (stories, digital art, and videos) in reality through paint and canvas, tying everything together to create a cohesive and complex narrative.

Artist's CV

Jan-Feb 2019 Artist in Residence, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg Sweeden

Nov-Dec 2018 Artist in Residence, Buinho Association, Alentejo Portugal

Aug-Oct 2018 Artist in Residence, Huekito AIR Program, Paris France

June/July 2018 Artist in Residence, AiRGentum, Seville Spain

October 2016 - March 2017 Artist in Residence, Le Lavoir, Ivry Sur Seine France

June / July 2015 EICAR Summer Workshop: Directing and Screenwriting program, Paris France

September 2012 - May 2013 Université de Paris - Sorbonne: French Language and Civilisation, Paris France

September 2006 - May 2012 Bachelor of Arts University of Colorado at Boulder (Colorado, USA)

American Association of University Women Scholarship recipient

February 2019 Konstepidemin, Announcement of exhibition:

"The Box"