Khia Celeste
Selected Works
Rounded Corners, Pointed Curves, 2020
Irrelevant, 2017
Semblanza
Kiah Celeste currently lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.
Kiah Celeste is a multi-dimensional artist whose work for the last four years has transcended fitting into one category or medium. Living a peripatetic life from her native Brooklyn, to Berlin, Barcelona, Vienna, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and now Louisville, as well as her concerns for environmental sustainability have catapulted her approach to art making to a non-category. Although completing a BFA in photography in 2016, Kiah Celeste moved to a world of production in three dimensions. She primarily uses recycled industrial and synthetic objects and builds them into abstract forms alluding the organic; their stability reliant on the interdependancy and embrace of the objects in question. Celeste’s conceptual work and research focuses on social stigmas and conditioning that have permeated her life and identity such as the neglect of Black women in America, obsession of self in the media, corruption in the medical world and medical device industry, and gentrification in Brooklyn.
Actualmente vive y trabaja en Louisville, Kentucky.
Kiah Celeste es una artista multidimensional cuyo trabajo en los últimos cuatro años ha trascendido sin encasillarse en una categoría o medio específico. Viviendo una vida peripatética desde su natal Brooklyn, pasando por Berlín, Barcelona, Viena, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi y ahora Louisville, así como su preocupación por la sostenibilidad ambiental han catapultado su enfoque en la creación artística a una no-categoría. Aunque completó una licenciatura en fotografía en 2016, Kiah Celeste se trasladó a al mundo de la producción en tridimensional. Ella utiliza principalmente objetos industriales y sintéticos reciclados y los construye en formas abstractas que aluden a lo orgánico; su estabilidad depende de la interdependencia y el abrazo de los objetos en cuestión. El trabajo conceptual y la investigación de Celeste se centran en los estigmas sociales y la condición que han permeado su vida e identidad, como la negligencia hacia las mujeres negras en América, la obsesión por el yo en los medios, la corrupción en el mundo médico y la industria de dispositivos médicos, y la gentrificación en Brooklyn.
Exposiciones
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EXPOSICIONES
2022
(Upcoming) Swivel Gallery, Saugerties
The Shape Of Things
Group Exhibition
Saugerties, NY
Document
All The Best,
Kiah Celeste
Solo Exhibition
Chicago, IL
The Carnegie
A Thought Is A River
Group Exhibition
Covington, KY
Schick Gallery
‘Humor Me’
Group Exhibition
Saratoga Spring, NY
Swivel Gallery
The Right Side Down
Solo Exhibition
Brooklyn, NY
2021
NADA Miami with Swivel Gallery
Miami, FL
KMAC Museum
Before It Falls Apart
Solo Exhibition
Louisville, KY
University Of Kentucky Art Museum
Coloring
Group Exhibition
Lexington, KY
KMAC Museum
Reflect, Reframe, Remake, Remodel 40th anniversary exhibition
Group Exhibition
Louisville, KY
HEAT
Visual collaboration for Noisebody album, HEAT, with Zone Catalogue
Available on Youtube, Spotify etc.
Quappi Projects
It Is What Is Not Yet Known
Solo Exhibition
Louisville, KY
Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery
A Howl Is Also A Prayer
Group Exhibition
Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY
SUBVENCIONES / COMISIONES2021
Artadia 21C Louisville Award
Inaugural 10K unrestricted grant recipient
2020
Artist Relief Trust (ART)
Elevator Artist Grant
Foundation For Contemporary Arts
FCA Emergency Grant
Louisville Arts Network and Lift Up Lou
Louisville Arts Network Micro-Commission
2017
Nathan Snyder
Commission
Brooklyn, NY
Cristina Ulerio
Commission
Brooklyn, NY