# Paula Elion — Contemporary Visual Artist

> Paula Elion is a contemporary visual artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Originally from Argentina and Israel, she works in oil, acrylic, mixed media, textile, and digital art. Her work explores daily interactions, family relationships, identity, and gender perception.

## About

Paula Elion is a visual storyteller based in Stockholm, Sweden. Originally from Argentina and Israel, she experiments with diverse materials in her studio practice. A board member of Detroit Stockholm artists' collective, she completed residencies in Berlin (2017 at Takt Kunstprojektraum, 2019 at GlogauAIR). She received the Israeli Ministry of Culture prize for independent artists (2019) and a Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar grant (2023). Elion holds an Artist Diploma from Hamidrasha, Beit-Berl Art College, and a B.A. in English Literature & Linguistics from Tel Aviv University.

## Artist Statement

Paula Elion's art explores daily interactions and the unspoken rules shaping us. Family relationships, the female image in a patriarchal society, identity, and gender perception — what is hidden in the everyday emerges in her work. Gender transformation has become deeply personal, woven into both her artistic practice and her experience as a mother. Her visual vocabulary incorporates a process of abstraction and converses with both the figurative and the expressive. Materials play a central role — layering, erasing, distorting — each gesture mirrors the fluidity of identity.

## Mediums

Oil on canvas, acrylic on canvas, mixed media, found materials and readymades, textile and embroidery on found domestic textiles, pigments, digital art and AI-assisted video

## Paintings in Motion — Digital Art

A series of AI-generated video artworks where original paintings are brought to life using Luma Dream Machine. Each piece transforms a static painting into a short animated video, exploring memory, identity, and family narratives through generative AI. The series includes: Daddy Loves Me So Much, Hugh's Passion, My Cowboys' Kiss (inspired by Brokeback Mountain), Sliding in the Yellow Slide into Deep Waters, That Amazing Smile, The Dance, The Girl on the Merry-Go-Round, and Waiting for Mom While Dancing. View the full collection at https://paulaelion.com/paintings-in-motion

## Selected Solo Exhibitions

- 2024: Transformative Growth, Detroit Stockholm Gallery, Stockholm
- 2023: Where Do You Come From?, Duo Contradiction, Stockholm (Curator: Marina Pugina)
- 2022: I know I come with a history attached to me, Detroit Stockholm, Stockholm (Curator: Sona Stepanyan)
- 2022: Red Alert, Palaver Gallery, Stockholm (Curator: Ola Bjällgren)
- 2022: An Eternal Process, Centrifug, Konsthall C, Stockholm
- 2021: Multiplied Presence, Flat Octopus, Stockholm (Curator: Alice Máselníková)
- 2019: Inmigrante-Migrante-Emigrante-Refugiado, El Almacen de Fausto, Berlin (Curator: Julieta Palombi)

## Selected Group Exhibitions

- 2025: The Obsession Factory That Feeds on Passion, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm
- 2024: Traces, Galleria 3H+K, Pori, Finland
- 2023: Transtemporal Materialities, Noysky Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2023: Stitching Stories, Detroit Stockholm Gallery, Stockholm
- 2022: 7th International Watercolor Biennale, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2021: Hiersein / Being Here, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin (Curator: Dr. Birgit Szepanski)
- 2020: Family Business, Centrum Judaicum, Berlin

## International Exhibition Countries

Sweden, Finland, USA, Israel, Mexico, Serbia, Germany, Argentina

## Collections

ST-ART Collection (Serge Tiroche), Leumi Bank Collection, private collections in Stockholm, Berlin, and Tel Aviv

## Studio & Contact

- Studio: Detroit Stockholm, Roslagsgatan 21, Stockholm, Sweden
- Email: studio@paulaelion.com
- Instagram: @paula_elion
- Website: https://paulaelion.com

## Shop

Original paintings and mixed media works available for purchase (prices from 4,000 SEK). Fine art prints available via Fine Art America. Studio Experience sessions (2 hours, 800 SEK) available by appointment — includes studio tour, fika, and hands-on technique (printmaking, painting, or embroidery).