Nov 2021 Interview, "Finding your inner femininity, channeling
difference into empowerment with artist Lala Drona" on
Finding Your Wave Podcast
Mar 2021 Interview with Paris Lit up, "Spotlight" series
May 2020 Interview with Only Woke, "At Home" series
Oct 2019 Report covering The Female Gaze at the Bienvenu Art Fair, at the Cité des Arts Paris, by Mathieu Mielesko Balul
Oct 2019 Featured in article on The Gaze of a Parisienne
"The Gaze of a Woman Artist" by Florence Briat-soulié
Aug 2019 The Art Gorgeous Article
"Three Fresh Takes on the Female Gaze" by Katya Lopatko
Feb 2019 Konstepidemin, Announcement of exhibition:
"The Box"
July 2018 El Correo de Andalucia, Article on exhibition: The Power of the Click
July 2018 ABCdesevilla, Article on exhibition :
The Power of the Click
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 Soho House International Artist Fellowship Recipient
June-July 2019 Artist in Residence, Kintai Arts, Kintai Lithuania
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
Oct 2016 - March 2017 Artist in Residence, Le Lavoir, Ivry Sur Seine France
June / July 2015 EICAR Summer Workshop: Directing and Screenwriting program, Paris France
Sept 2012 - May 2013 Université de Paris - Sorbonne: French Language and Civilisation, Paris France
Sept 2006 - May 2012 Bachelor of Arts University of Colorado at Boulder (Colorado, USA)
American Association of University Women Scholarship recipient
EXHIBITIONS
BASED ON A FACT
March 2022 Dream House: A Collaborative Zine in Honor of the 50th
Anniversary of Womanhouse
April 2020 Unleashtheartist, Covod-19 Artist Platform Selection
Paintings, videos
Oct 2019 Post(blank),Vol. IV: Post(stranger)
Paintings
June 2019 Marietta Magazine Issue 2:
Interview by Erica Schreiner and images of paintings
May 2019 Maintenant 13: Dada Journal
Painting: Triptych "The power of the click"
April 2019 The Poetry Society of New York: Spilt Milk
Article on triptych "The Power of the Click"
Oct 2018 Wotisart Magazine, Issue 19
Painting: Triptych "The Power of the Click"
2017 Verses of April, Lala & Giono
Videos: La Politesse, The Physical
2012 Fiction Brigade: A collection of Flash Fiction
Painting : I'm not your Reality
2010 Sub-scribe Magazine, Nostalgia (Fall 2010)
Drawing: Outlander
PUBLICATIONS / PRESS
EDUCATION / RESEARCH
Layer 1/ The Lala World (2008-present): Lala Drona created a fictional universe where Lala Drona leads an art laboratory which conducts experiments on Muses to extract their inspiration. In this universe, Lala Drona uses the inspiration extracted to inspire the creation of her own art pieces to be bought and sold in a dystopian art market.
Layer 2/ Based on a Fact (2012-present): The artist has created an online news platform which communicates mock-journalistic articles covering events that take place in The Lala World (Layer 1). In the eyes of this media outlet, Lala Drona is portrayed as a trickster and villain, and is an ample source for scandalous stories. The artist continues to update the news platform with articles by fictional journalists on www.basedonafact.com.
Layer 3/ Our collective reality: This is where we experience the artwork. This is where all layers of reality collide: Conceived in layer 1, commented on in layer 2, and then experienced in layer 3. The artist considers her exhibited art pieces to be the fruits of the muse experiments taking place in the fictional art laboratory. The art pieces created in the The Lala World break through to our collective reality, blurring the boundaries between art, fantasy, and “the real.”
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Artist's CV
Lala Drona is a Venezuelan-American painter and video artist, born in Denver, Colorado. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Lala Drona has since published and exhibited her work internationally. Most recently, her videos and paintings exploring digital spaces and the female gaze, were shown at the Cite des Arts de Paris. Her paintings, videos, and writing explore the monstrous feminine, alternate realities, and void of the digital world. The totality of her artwork contributes to, and exists within a fictional universe and mythology established online and then recontextualized in the physical world through paint on canvas, performance, and sculpture. Her paintings and videos create an intimate and uncanny sense of unease, adding depth to her oeuvre and compelling viewers to consider the impact of institutional structures on individual identity. Lala Drona’s body of work engages with broader social and cultural issues. She is 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 virtual 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.
PUBLICATIONS
PRESS
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(b. 1988, USA)
"I create because I refuse to be another page in someone else's history book."
2012-2022 Meta-art piece, fake news platform, Fictional dystopian universe inspired by the artist's life.
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April 2024 Solo Exhibition: “Virtual Reverence,” Elios Gallery, Paris, France
MaI 2023 Artist talk and showing: "The Monstrous Feminine in Cinema and Fine Art" by Lala Drona, Soho House NYC
Mai 2023 Collective Exhibition: "Proclamez vos droits", peinture, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
July 2022 Collective exhibition, "Video + Performance," Millennium Film Workshop Inc., Brooklyn New York
May 2022 Collective exhibition, "Inauguration," Espace Artistes Femmes, Lausanne Switzerland
March 2022 Collective exhibition, "Entre exode, ouverture et création," Powerhouse, Lausanne Switzerland
May 2021 Guest Panelist, "Viral/Sustainable: digital and environmental art today," Edinburg College of Art
July 2020 Collective exhibition: First Responders, WOW Museum & Gallery, Texas USA
June 2020 Collective exhibition: Covideo-19 Notes, Undercurrent Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (online)
October 2019 Bienvenue Art Fair, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, La Cité des Arts, Paris France
February 2019 Solo Exhibition: The Box, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg Sweden
May 2019 Live Art Performance: Experiment 88- Speak or Listen, Le Castel, Paris France
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
May 2013 Solo Exhibition: Paris 210 days, The Botek, Paris France