Award-winning satirist artist Tony "Baloney" Juliano is not your normal painter. With his wacky, single panel, lush, comic-like paintings dealing with quick puns, whimsical sayings, ironic sadness, and his penchant for parodying other famous artists, Tony makes art laughable in colorful complementary painted frames.
Photo by Rich House
Tony was born on February 7, 1975. He graduated from Paier College of Art with a BFA in Illustration in 1998 and is a successful free-lance artist from 1997 to the present.
Tony's resume includes commissioned murals from Corona Beer to The Peabody Museum as well as comics, illustrations, photography, art instructions, back drops and set designs.
Being teased and picked on by his classmates, he developed a childish made-up nickname. He was called Agoo. That name hounded him for years, so turning lemons into lemonade (and maybe out of spite) it seemed fitting that he calls his work "AGOO ART"
Tony also sells his artwork as magnets, matted prints and comic books at a variety of art festivals, comic cons, on-line, galleries, museums, and stores all over the world.
Tony's shows tend to be more of a circus than your typical art opening. With a following of fans that come as chickens, purple cows, robots, dragons, accordion players, sumo wrestlers, Santa Claus and The CT Roller Girls serving drinks on their roller skates. Even Tony gets dressed up in unique outfits too for his exhibitions.
Other interests Tony has are toy collecting, comic books, art history, accordion playing, filmmaker and Godzilla!
Tony currently lives in Orange, Connecticut at the Agoo Art Studio with his beloved pet, Commander Hamster.
List of past exhibitions...
2008 - Claude Gallery "Clowns, Jokers and Pranks" Eastchester, NY. (group exhibit)
2008 - City Lights Gallery "Off the Wall/On The Wall" Bridgeport, CT. (group exhibit)
2008 - 3rd Rail Studio "Pot Shots at Hot Shots" New Rochelle, NY. (group exhibit)
2007 - Art Well Gallery "Show for a Show" Torrington, CT. (group exhibit)
2007 - l'art Noir New Orleans "Comic Show" New Orleans, LA. (group exhibit)
2007 - Paier College of Art "Alumni Show" Hamden, CT. (group exhibit)
2006 - Firehouse Art Gallery "Animals" Milford, CT. (group exhibit)
2006 - The NEST Art Lofts "The IRS Thinks We're Dead" Bridgeport, CT. (group exhibit)
2006 - Europa Gallery "Paper Cuts" Brooklyn, NY. (solo exhibit)
2006 - John Slade Ely House "2006 Invitational Exhibition" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2006 - Art Underground "#2 Artsy Fartsy" Baltimore, MD. (solo exhibit)
2006 - Gateway Community College Art Gallery "Another State of Mind" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2006 - Firehouse Art Gallery "Bon Appétit" Milford, CT. (group exhibit)
2006 - Hygienic Art Gallery "Art That Brings Meaning to Your Life" New London, CT. (group exhibit)
2005 - La Viande "Paintings by the Stuckist" London, UK. (group exhibit)
2005 - CB's 313 Gallery, "Addressing the Shadow & Making Friends with Wild Dogs" New York, NY. (group exhibit)
2005 - Firehouse Art Gallery, "Modern/Post Modern" Milford, CT. (group exhibit)
2005 - Hope Gallery, "Tater Tot Farmers" New Haven, CT. (duo exhibit)
2005 - Artescape Studios, "Wine, Women, & Song" San Ramon, CA. (group exhibit)
2005 - Kohn-Joseloff Gallery, "Grade on a Curve" Cheshire, CT. (solo exhibt)
2004 - Small Space Gallery, "State of Mind" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2004 - The Walker Museum, "The Stuckist Punk Victorian" Liverpool, England (group exhibit)
2004 - Firehouse Art Gallery, "Reference to the Masters" Milford, CT. (group exhibit)
2004 - Crown Edge Gallery, New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2004 - Limner Gallery, "Emerging Artists Exhibit" New York, NY. (group exhibit)
2004 - Small Space Gallery/Space 63, "3 Miserable Bastards!" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2003 - ALL Gallery, "Cold" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2003 - The Space, Hamden, CT. (group exhibit)
2003 - The Art Coalition, "Body Art" North Hollywood, CA. (group exhibit)
2003 - Firehouse Gallery, "Reference to the Masters" Milford, CT. (group exhibit)
2003 - Hygienic Art Gallery, "Figure it Out" New London, CT. (featured artist)
2003 - CB's 313 Gallery, "Happily Deranged" New York, NY. (group exhibit)
2002 - Stuckism International Center USA, "War on Bush" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2002 - Stuckism International Center USA, "We Just Wanna Show Some F***in´Paintings" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2002 - The Art Coalition, "Passionate Portraits" North Hollywood, CA.
2002 - Stuckism International Centre, "1st Stuckist international" London, UK (group exhibit)
2002 - Chapel Square Gallery, New Haven, CT. "Arts, Farts, & Blueberry Tarts" (solo exhibit)
2002 - The Edge, "Fringe Festival" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2002 - Margaret L. MacDonough Gallery, "Playing with Matches" New Haven, CT. (solo exhibit)
2001 - John Slade Ely House, "Rx: Comic Relief" New Haven, CT. (group exhibit)
2001 - York Square Gallery, "Taking Out the Trash" New Haven, CT. (solo exhibit)
2000 - Gallery 940, "Winter Show" Hamden, CT. (group exhibit)
Articles and Interviews...
PLAY Magazine: Forgot To Laugh IV
New Haven Advocate: Remember to Forget to Laugh More Often
PLAY Magazine: Their Art's a Joke
Business New Haven: Rising Stars: Tony (Baloney) Juliano