Artist Bio
Juno Avila-Clark (he/they) is an emerging multimedia visual artist, aspiring cartoonist, and settler on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Coast Salish and Qayqayt First Nations. His work focuses on community, connections between people, identity, and the environment. They hope to create art that has the power to bring people together and process complex emotions in a healthy way.
Beyond some art classes at Shadbolt centre, Juno is essentially self-taught. His work consists of whichever medium feels right for the piece, and is characterized by its bright colours and expressive sentiments.
Juno was selected for the Greenhouse project (lead by The Only Animal), a cohort of 100 artists who came together September 2021 to consider how creators from different disciplines have a unique understanding that can be brought to solving the climate crisis,
He has planned artistically-focused protests with metro-Vancouver’s climate strike group Sustainabiliteens, such as a funeral for our future event which took place in front of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change’s office, and led a flash mob in Pacific Centre mall on Black Friday in 2019.
Most recently, Juno was the Artist in Residence at the Gallery at Queens Park in Spring of 2022. He planned a workshop and exhibit for the space, focusing on the intersection of transgender identity and experiences of the the climate emergency. Juno hopes that his perspective as a young trans person could contribute a unique artistic voice to the conversation and help others view change towards a just world as a positive using their lived experience with transition.