SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024  AsiaHues Showcase, Vin Gallery, HCMC, Vietnam.

2021  BAA, Mrs Toolip Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

2016 Märchen & True Stories (Solo) , Berlin, Germany.

2014  Small Things , Vin Gallery, HCMC, Vietnam.
2013  Märchen (solo), Vin Gallery, HCMC, Vietnam.
2014  One Way or Another, Vin Gallery, HCMC, Vietnam.
2013  Im Osten Vieles Blaues, MoBe, Berlin, Germany.
2011  New Works(solo), IZB, Munich, Germany.
2010  A Touch of Romance(solo), MoBe, Berlin, Germany.
2005  New Works (solo), Schokoladen, Berlin, Germany.
2000  Of Our Time, Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA.
1999  Realism in Detail, St. Cloud Community Arts Center, St. Cloud, MN.
1998  New Paintings and Drawings (solo), Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA.
1998  The Fine Line/The Subtle Stroke, Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA.
1997  Works on Paper, Berkshire Museum of Art, Pittsfield, MA.
1996  Winter Invitational, Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA.
1996  Artists' Books (two person), Kougeas Gallery, Boston, MA.
1996  International Artists' Book Show, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
1996  MFA Thesis exhibition, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook, NY.
1994  New Works (solo), Melville Library, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY.
1994  Works from the Press, Meridian Gallery, Sea Cliff, New York.
1994  College Art Association MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, NYC.
1990  Glass Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

EDUCATION

State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, M.F.A., Studio Art (1996).

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, B.F.A., Studio Art (1991).

AWARDS

1999 Second place prize, Realism in Detail, St. Cloud Community Arts Center, St. Cloud, MN.

1995 Goldberger Fellowship, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY.

1991 Alexander Julian Prize in Design, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

PUBLICATIONS

Catalogue, ARTcetera auction to benefit AIDS Action Committee, ARTcetera, Boston, MA, 2002

Hill, Shawn. “Intimacy Achieved” Bay Windows, April 16, 1998.

Catalogue, Works on Paper, Berkshire Art Association, Berkshire, MA 1997

Catalogue, International Artists Books Exhibition, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary 1996

Anderson, Kim. “Art of the Book” Stony Brook Happenings, April 12, 1995.

Elena Osuna was born in North Carolina, USA in 1969. She grew up in Durham, NC and spent her childhood summers in Spain where she has family. She received a BFA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991 and an MFA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook  in 1996. Early on she studied printmaking with a focus on artist books and in graduate school she began to paint and concentrated on realist figurative art. In the 1990s she was represented by the Kougeas Gallery in Boston.  She has been a lecturer at SUNY Stony Brook in printmaking and an adjunct professor in web design at George Washington University. In 2002 she moved to Berlin, Germany where she married and had a son. In 2013 she and her family moved to Saigon, Vietnam for two years. During that time she was represented by the Vin Gallery in Saigon. She is now represented by AsiaHues. She currently lives in Barcelona.