Bio
Alex Coma
born in 1991 - Montreal, Canada
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Founder of www.rozeumbra.com (2023) - Movement and Mentorship for Visionary Artists and Creators
Alex Coma is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the complex intersections between symbolism, consciousness, and esoteric knowledge. A graduate in photography from Concordia University and former scholarship recipient at the Montreal Fine Arts Academy, Coma’s practice draws on figures like Arnold Böcklin and Carl Jung. His work navigates between visual art, philosophical investigation, and spiritual exploration, deploying a rigorous methodology that questions symbolic systems, cryptographic elements, and ritual methodologies. For the past decade, Coma has studied under Egyptian spiritual teacher Shri Amir Mourad, developing meditative techniques that enable deeper access to unconscious realms and inform his artistic practice—a disciplined inner exploration that has become instrumental in his ability to perceive increasingly more profound symbolic content and archetypal energies.
His works, exhibited internationally at venues including the Visionary Art Collective in New York, the Affordable Art Fair in London and Brussels, and recognized in collections such as Colart and Ubisoft, have been acclaimed by media including CBC Arts, Vie des Arts, and La Presse. In 2023, Coma founded Roze Umbra, an initiative and platform dedicated to visionary artists, extending his commitment to collaborative artistic research that examines the subtle connections between symbolic languages and collective consciousness. As part of this initiative, he created "The Blue Hour Podcast," where he engages with visionary artists worldwide, including renowned figures like David Altmejd and Madamx. His approach to all he does is constantly seeking a delicate balance between empirical knowledge and the ineffable mystery, offers an exploration of the borderlands of artistic creation.
Artistic Statement
My artistic practice explores the territories of spirituality, transformation, and the unconscious through oil painting and immersive installations. By combining detailed realism with layered symbolism, I summon meditative atmospheres where the visible and invisible converse. I utilize the chiaroscuro technique, blending celestial blues, earthy tones, and rare pigments like lapis lazuli—echoing Byzantine traditions where the act of painting was understood as an alchemical process transforming both the artwork and the artist simultaneously. Like those medieval iconographers who approached creation as a spiritual practice of self-transformation, I create compositions where architecture, night skies, and lush landscapes become portals to inner realities.
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My artistic projects transcend the two-dimensional framework of painting to inhabit space through immersive installations that integrate different mediums. I transform exhibition spaces into contemplative territories, using symmetrical arrangements, strategic lighting, and natural soundscapes that invite the viewer into a ceremonial experience. My creative process begins with meditation nourished by dreams and personal experiences—first acknowledging imbalances within my own psyche, then perceiving increasingly vast, and seemingly more impersonal energies. This self-investigation then unfolds through in-depth research through ancient texts and manifests in themes of transformation and balance, as evidenced in my series inspired by the goddess Nut, which interrogates the cycles of death and rebirth and the reharmonization of feminine and masculine energies both within the self and collective consciousness.
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Symbols and archetypes constitute for me a universal language connecting past and present, a prism through which I observe impermanence and the constant flux of energies. My ultimate goal: ''to awaken intimate truths by creating spaces that connect the viewer to the invisible forces that structure our collective existence.''
