TIZIANA LA MELIA
Recent exhibitions and books include The Eyelash and the Monochrome (Talonbooks, 2018), and Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect (Blank Cheque Press, 2019); Global Cows 2020 on Conceptual Fine Arts and hosted as part of Images Festival, (Toronto, 2021; Ozone Gleaners at Projet Pangee (Montreal), 2020; Fly Robin Fly at Mecenes du Sud (Montpellier, 2021); 17:4 at Unit 17 (Vancouver, 2021); Comics Trip! at Collection Lambert (Avignion), 2022. Her poetry and criticism has been published in The Capilano Review, Art 21, C Magazine, Montez Press, The Organism for Poetic Research among others.
email me: tizlahoney@gmail.com
Represented by Unit 17 - Vancouver and Anne Barrault - Paris
website under construction
Tiziana La Melia is an artist and author born in Palermo (IT) and raised on an orchard-garden on Syilx/Okanagan territories. She works across many media such as painting, poetry, sculpture, collaboration, collage and drawing.In her writing and art practice Tiziana gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, and iterative shapes and symbols, which move through layers of diasporic time. Over the past few years, they have been editing a video that features friends and family performing the simple life in a fabled drama between hamsters and mice, travelling between the rural and the urban, while tracing familial and symbolic understandings of food, clothing, and place. Tiziana also made Kletic Kink (with Ellis Sam), a poetry album with musical compositions. She is a sessional instructor in painting and writing at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Thursday February 17, 2022 at 6pm PST
I will be talking about art and writing with: KRISTIAN VISTRUP MADSEN: "DOING TIME" LAUNCH // KRISTIAN VISTRUP MADSEN // OPENING 02/17/2022 >
Wednesday February 22, 2022 at 7pm PST
I will be reading poems on zoom hosted by Oxygen art Centre. Fan Wu will also be reading.
October 30, 2021 – February 20, 2022
I am showing drawings in Comics Trip! Collection Lambert (Avignion FR) with Carlos Amorales, David B., Jean-Michel Basquiat, Abdelkader Benchamma, Vaughn Bode, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, Bonnie Collura, Robert Combas, François-Xavier Courrèges, Robert Crumb, Julie Doucet, Marcel Dzama, Mark Fischer, Tatsuo Ishida, Daniel Johnston, Mike Kelley, Patrice Killoffer, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Bertrand Lavier, Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Masse, Jean-Christophe Menu, Steven Parrino, Raymond Pettibon, Syers Rob, Mark Shippy, David Shrigley, Youth Sonic, Maple U.S., Gala Vanson, Jean-Luc Verna, Chris Ware, Lawrence Weiner, Rose Wylie, Naoko Yurikusa, Andrea Zittel.
Ozone Gleaners
two person exhibition at Projet Pangée, Montreal
Palermo Microonde
curated by Gianluca Concialdi, Giorgio Mega and Adriano La Licata
Villa Vertua Masolo in Comun di Nova Milanese
January 19 - February 9, 2020
Rust Daughters Say It With Flowers
Solo exhibition & Artist in Residence at The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
curated by Derrick Chang
May 30 - October 27, 2019
All The Things in the Room
Facilitated two writing workshops as part of a series by Elisa Ferrari
Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery + Museum of Vancouver
October 9 + 16, 2019
Second Spring
organized by Julian Hou at Trout Lake with Vivo Media Arts, Vancouver
October 6, 2019 - 12pm-9pm
E.S.P.: Ecologies
screening of Garden Gossip at Unit 17, Vancouver, co-presentation with Cineworks and Fillip. Program includes shorts by myself, Maryse Lariviere, Gabi Dao and Sarah Rara. A video on loop by Sarah will also be on view.
September 14, 2019, 7:30 PM
Casual Magic
Poetry Reading
644 Warren Street, Brooklyn
May 27, 2019, 7 pm
Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks
UBC's annual Conference with 221a
by invitation of Julian Hou: Motives/Humus
June 10, 2019
St. Agatha's Stink Script
Solo exhibition at Anne Baurrault, Paris
April 18 - May 11, 2019
Global Cows
collaborative exhibition at Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels
with Vanessa Disler, Lucy Stein, Nina Royle, Charlotte Weise
March 16 – April 27, 2019
the poets have always preceded
art and poetry in Vancouver, 1960 - present
curated by Lee Plested
Marian Penner Bancroft, bill bissett, Robin Blaser, Judy Chartrand, Jess, Judith Copithorne, Pierre Coupey, Christos Dikeakos, Stan Douglas, Beau Dick, Geoffrey Farmer, Fran Herndon, Carole Itter, Roy Kiyooka, Tiziana La Melia, Al Neil, Judy Radul, Rhoda Rosenfeld, Trudy Rubenfeld, Nancy Shaw with many more.
January 26 - April 27, 2019
Super, Natural
Unit 17, Vancouver
January 26 - March 17, 2019
D'Alto, Sonia, "Global Cows" - Press Release
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Hou, Julian, "Glamour Grammar" - Press Release for The Pigeon Looks for Death In the Space Between a Needle and a Haystack at Unit 17, March 2018
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Sawatsky, Rachelle, "“Yellow Snail,” text for The Eyelash and the Monochrome, solo exhibition, Tiziana La Melia, at Mercer Union, Toronto, November 28, 2014
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