Sculpture Faculty Candidate Presentation: Katya Grokhovsky

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Katya Grokhovsky, candidate for the full-time faculty position in sculpture, will give a public presentation of her work to the community.

Sculpture as Expanded Practice of Migration
Grokhovsky discusses her mixed media sculptural practice, which examines migration and her experience of growing up in Ukraine. Exploring notions of home and cultural legacy as moving “targets”, she highlights the dissonance of immigrant experience in the U.S at the time of “war at home”. A space of peripheral vision is established, in which the ongoing “re-trauma” and background hum of longing and distress are studied through the material, spatial and performative expansion of sculptural inquiry.

Born in Ukraine, Katya Grokhovsky is a New York-based artist and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work has been exhibited extensively. Grokhovsky is a recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies including Sculpture Space, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, SVA MFA Art Practice Artist in Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Artist in Residence, Art and Law Fellowship, The Museum of Arts and Design Studio Program, Ox-BOW School of Art, Wassaic Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Studios at MASS MoCA, Santa Fe Art Institute, Watermill Center, and more. Grokhovsky earned an MFA (2011) in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA (Painting) from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a BA (Hnrs, Fashion) from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. She has been a Faculty member and a Visiting artist at SVA, CUNY (Hunter, City College), CalArts, Muhlenberg College, SAIC, University of Virginia, University of Central Florida and more.

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