L.L. Contemporary is thrilled to announce its upcoming holiday group exhibition, What a Wonderful Year. This special showcase features works by a diverse group of collaborative artists, including Aimee Ruoff, Andrew Ooi, Dylan Darwin, Heather Goodchild, Keerthana Jhutty, Larry Muñoz, Leon Zheng, Mona Shen, Nava Waxman, Stella Obedi, Takuya Inoue and Zhan Zhang, alongside select pieces from the gallery’s collection by Benjamin Appel, Emily Gaudet, Gina Rorai, Sarah Goldstein, Shih Chieh Huang, Steven Restagno, and Susanna Heller. The gallery warmly invites everyone to take this opportunity to come together and celebrate the festive season.

About the Artists

Larry Muñoz (b. 1982, Colombia) lives and works between Bogotá, Colombia, and Mexico City, Mexico. He studied Advertising at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. Artistic residencies have played a pivotal role in his development, including the Platform 82 project, hosted by Zilberman Gallery in Berlin in 2024, and the Taohuatan International Artist Residency in Anhui Province, China, in 2023. His work has been exhibited in Turkey, Mexico, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, the United States, and Colombia. Notable solo exhibitions include Plural Nodo Cultural in Bogotá, Muntref Ecoparque in Buenos Aires, Beta Gallery in Bogotá, and Jardim do Hermes in São Paulo.

Muñoz’s work explores our relationship with the natural world. Through sculptures, videos, and installations, he combines organic and industrial materials from diverse sources, focusing on small details like flowers, seeds, stones, and insects. His practice examines how our interactions with nature are mediated and defined by media, technology, science, politics, and other structures, highlighting the materiality and fragility of the world around us.

Mona Shen (b. 1992) grew up in South-East China. She studied in US and achieved her MFA in Painting from New York Studio School (2018) and her BFA in Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art & Design (2015). Her work has been shown and featured through Young Space, Art Maze Magazine, Create Magazine, Bowery Gallery, Living Gallery Outpost and Space Earth Canal 321. She has participated in programs including the Emerging Artist Program at Millersville University (EAR), Mount Gretna School of Art (MGSoA), and Visual Arts program at the Chautauqua Institution (VACI). Shen currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Keerthana Jhutty was born and raised in Chennai, India, and immigrated to Toronto in 2013. She currently resides in Strathmore, Alberta. Her compositions are inspired by Tagore’s verses about missing the day a lotus bloomed and Nehru’s iconic 1947 Tryst with Destiny speech. Jhutty’s work reflects her deep connection to poetry, classical Indian literature, and fading memories of her childhood in India and her ancestors. Locales such as the deer forests of the Kalakshetra Foundation, the banyans of the Theosophical Society, and a secret path to a childhood playground often feature in her works. She has participated in various art fairs, auctions, and juried exhibitions, including the Scarborough Annual Juried Exhibition and the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. Her work has been featured on CBC and will also be included in an upcoming book documenting the stories of emerging Canadian artists.