Albanian-born artist, Juna Skënderi is best known for her minimalist approach to traditional folk art. She creates as a means of dealing with the anxiety and uncertainty related to having lived the majority of her life as an undocumented immigrant in the United States. Her fiber and mixed media art is both an homage to the craft art of Albania and a stylistic continuation of her longtime work with abstractions.

Skënderi has been a working artist for over a decade. Having obtained a BFA in filmmaking at Montclair State University, she initally pursued a career in production and costume design. She has also programmed for film festivals such as the Hamptons International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Rooftop Films. She now lives and works in New York City.

Instagram - @junaverse

EDUCATION

2010: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Filmmaking, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

2020: Queens Art Fund Grant, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY

2019: Monson Arts, Monson, ME

2018: 77Art, Rutland, VT

2014: Theaterlab, New York, NY

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021: Is It a Good Time?, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

2021: Borderwalls III, The Border Project, Brooklyn, NY

2020: Notes From the New Interior, Ed Varie, New York, NY

2020: Incubator, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019: Flat File 2019, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY

2018: Paper-Ballad, La Cápsula, Zürich, Switzerland

2016: Artists Respond to the Election, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016: Garden Party, Collective Arts Incubator, Los Angeles, CA

2013: Greenhouse Gala, TheaterLab, New York, NY

2012: Outlaw, White Box Gallery, New York, NY