Tony Juliano

Born in New Haven, CT on Feb 7th 1975. Graduated with a BFA in Illustration from the extremely small Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT 1997. At age 12, my parents had some comic books they let me read. Sad Sack, MAD Magazine and Horror comics. Few years later I became a big fan of The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes.

A year before graduation, I began freelancing as a muralist and a graphic designs for major corporations such as Corona Beer, Wrigley, Hasbro Toy Company, Yale University, The Peabody Museum of Natural History, Dark Horse Publishing and others places as well with some full-time jobs as an art teacher and a photo lab technician during the days of negative film.

In 2000, I started working on a series of paintings called Mocking The Masters  which depicts famous works of art that I turn them into comical parodies. Example, Leonardo da Vinci‘s painting of the Mona Lisa. I painted all the features of the original painting but I replaced the head with Yoda’s head and on the bottom of a painting is written Yoda Lisa in a painterly style of a single-panel comic. My parodied are not an insult, just another way to look at them. Some of the other artist I’ve done are Edvard Munch, Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol and many others. Besides selling my original art I also sell magnets, comic books and other merchandise. Here is a short list of my past exhibitions.

AZ Gallery (Saint Paul, MN)

Franconia Sculpture Park (Shafer, MN)

The Walker (Liverpool, UK)

John Slade Ely House (New Haven, CT)

Hygienic Art Gallery (New London, CT)

CBGBs 313 Gallery (New York, NY)

La Viande (London, UK)

Limner Gallery (New York, NY)

Culture Cache (San Francisco, CA)

Gallery 1988 (Los Angeles, CA)

l’art Noir New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)

DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA)

MoCCA Museum Of Comics and Cartoon Art (New York, NY)

Kustom Lane Gallery (Hawthorn, AU)