About

Shana Patry is originally from l’Ascension-de-Notre-Seigneur (QC, Canada) and lives and works in Saguenay (QC, Canada). Shana has nearly 10 years of experience as a traditional painter (acrylic, oil and mixed media) and is currently going through a professional transition between commercial art and contemporary art.

Her hybrid practice combines traditional painting techniques with digital art and new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), microcontrollers (Arduino), video mapping, screens and sensors.

She is interested in duality, antonyms, contrasts and opposites as well as the ambivalence between the certain and the uncertain, the cycle of life and of death, and the traces of our existence. Inspired by nature and solitude, she draws on her memories and insecurities to explore trauma and negative emotions, following an approach marked by cynicism and absurdism.

Shana's work has been presented in several group exhibitions in Canada as well as in Morocco.