Meet Juliana
Juliana Toro is a visual artist from Colombia focusing on risography, image making and print.
Her artworks are a handful of bold colors that use the unique characteristics of risography to mix and match textures, grain, and gradients. They explore abstract shapes that merge with organic and geometric compositions, creating dreamlike, fluid landscapes.
We asked Juliana to share how she got into this work. Here’s what she told us:
With a background in art and graphic design, I was always drawn to print. But it wasn’t until I moved to Berlin that I discovered risography and fell in love with its unexpected outcomes and the slow pace production process behind it. After taking a couple of workshops, I starting working with it until fully committing to the craft. Ever since, I’ve been exploring and expanding its language, embracing its limitations as part of my creative journey. My riso motto: In your limitations, I expand.
Juliana uses digital illustration, risography, layered colors, and textures captured from photos she takes and then edits digitally.
She works from her studio in Kreuzberg where she has her own riso machine and hosts workshops.
Outside of making riso art, what’s Juliana about?
I love music and discovering new artists. Dancing is my personal form of exorcism and Im fascinated by movement: walking, traveling. Feeling life's rush. I fell in love with Berlin after having a solo euro trip back in my 20's. Later on, I came to study, and never left. Fun facts: I have a blue mole in my arm (maybe I am blue-blooded). I barely dream (sad fact) and I am in love with spicy sauces, and spice as a life concept.
We asked Juliana what her ideal future for her art would look like:
“I’d love to bring risography into physical spaces—covering entire walls, expanding the technique beyond print. I imagine installations where the tiny riso dots transform into massive circles, immersing the viewer in the texture and scale of the process.”
Find Juliana’s riso prints at mijas Thursday - Friday 13-19 and Saturday 12-18
Juliana Toro on instagram: @na___toro