Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, also known as Shonee, is a Costa Rican-Canadian digital artist based in Montreal. A graduate in Film Animation from Concordia University, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Intermedia, Shonee develops an immersive practice deeply rooted in her connection to nature. Having grown up on the edge of a tropical rainforest in Costa Rica, she now translates that heritage into virtual worlds populated by hybrid 3D creatures inspired by the shapes and colors of our planet’s flora and fauna. Her work explores how our often narrow and objective human gaze perceives the living world in the age of ecological crisis—while seeking to rekindle a sense of sensitivity and lost connection.
Winner of the Emerging Digital Artists Award from EQ Bank in 2021, she has exhibited her work at renowned venues and festivals such as MUTEK Montreal, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and Filmgate Miami. Among her standout projects are My World, Your Melody (NFB), a choral animation featuring tropical frogs, and LUCA, an immersive VR installation centered around the theory of the Last Universal Common Ancestor, created in collaboration with Jorge Luis García González. Shonee’s distinctive practice blends art, science, and imagination in a continual search for new ways to represent non-human otherness.
Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, also known as Shonee, is a Costa Rican-Canadian digital artist based in Montreal. A graduate in Film Animation from Concordia University, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Intermedia, Shonee develops an immersive practice deeply rooted in her connection to nature. Having grown up on the edge of a tropical rainforest in Costa Rica, she now translates that heritage into virtual worlds populated by hybrid 3D creatures inspired by the shapes and colors of our planet’s flora and fauna. Her work explores how our often narrow and objective human gaze perceives the living world in the age of ecological crisis—while seeking to rekindle a sense of sensitivity and lost connection.
Winner of the Emerging Digital Artists Award from EQ Bank in 2021, she has exhibited her work at renowned venues and festivals such as MUTEK Montreal, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and Filmgate Miami. Among her standout projects are My World, Your Melody (NFB), a choral animation featuring tropical frogs, and LUCA, an immersive VR installation centered around the theory of the Last Universal Common Ancestor, created in collaboration with Jorge Luis García González. Shonee’s distinctive practice blends art, science, and imagination in a continual search for new ways to represent non-human otherness.