I ART New York

Izabela and Rebecca’s guest for the first episode of I ART NY is Katya Grokhovsky (b.in Ukraine, based in New York), whose extensive art practice encompasses several mediums, including installation, performance, sculpture, video, and painting. In response to the hosts’ questions, the artist addresses issues that inform her art practice, her role and as an activist, as well as her experience as an immigrant artist, all through a feminist lens. Katya’s work explores ideas about gender and migrant identity construction, alienation, labor, and the self. Through research and autobiographical experience, Katya constructs characters, underscoring study of stereotypes, assumptions, oppression, prejudices, and injustice.  Katya is an independent curator, educator and a founding director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB). She has received support through numerous residencies, fellowships and awards including MAD - Museum of Art and Design Studios Program, Art and Law Fellowship, BRIC workspace Residency, Studios