Julien Ceccaldi: Performing Artist in New York

About Julien Ceccaldi

Julien Ceccaldi is an artist whose work draws on underground comix, 1990s anime, and shōjo manga to build narrative scenes that feel both intimate and staged. In New York City, his work appears in MoMA’s exhibition program, including *The Modern Window: Julien Ceccaldi*, where city interiors and streetscapes become settings for social friction and desire. His compositions favor serial storytelling over single-image resolution, moving like panels across lived spaces. The result is a diaristic view of contemporary romance and discomfort, rendered with deliberate artifice.