Self Notes, Digital Prints on Fabric in Bound Book, 2014
Julian Chams
Julian Chams (b. 1989, Barranquilla, Colombia) is a visual artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute and is currently a Van Lier Visual Artist Fellow at Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY. Chams has had solo exhibitions at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; Splatterpool, Brooklyn, NY; ARS Antiqua Galería, Barranquilla, Colombia; and Parallel Gallery, Kansas City, MO. His work has been featured in group shows at, among others, the Bronx Museum of the Arts; XV Salón Regional de Artistas, Zona Caribe, Arte Corrosivo, Cartagena, Colombia; and Alliance Française, Barranquilla, Colombia. He was festival coordinator and editorial assistant for the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City.
For more information about Julian and their work, please visit julianchams.com
1. Excerpt from Maurice Maeterlinck’s “La inteligencia de las flores” (The Intelligence of Flowers) \
2. Drawings from the Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada (Royal Botanical Expedition to the New Kingdom of Granada 1783-1816) led by José Celestino Mutis.