EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Katya Grokhovsky
Lunchtime Studio Visit with Katya Grokhovsky
Katya Grokhovsky works in installation, sculpture, fiber, video, painting, drawing and performance, exploring gender, identity, labor, body, history, and the self. Through research, play and autobiographical experience, Grokhovsky weaves the personal and political together, building worlds and personas, which examine stereotypes, prejudices, and oppression, emphasizing the absurd and the uncanny in the everyday. She investigates the narratives of displacement, in relation to the preconceived social order and her own migration journey from Ukraine. Many of her works deal with protest, the notions of failure and triumph, via radical and satirical actions: reclaiming the body through pleasure, chaos, and refusal, residing in the space of the critical Capitalist grotesque, whilst occupying a 21C anarchic Dadaist Garage-Band Feminist Punk territory. Katya aims to accomplish a broader awareness of historical amnesia and expose challenging issues pertaining to history, collective trauma and the extremes of political regimes and ideologies and is invested in analyzing and learning about power dynamics and generational trauma, notions of freedom and democracy through personal and humane approach.
Katya Grokhovsky is a Ukrainian born and raised NYC-based artist, educator, and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. She received an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a B.F.A from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a B.A (Honors) in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Grokhovsky’s work has been supported through numerous residencies including The California Studio Manetti Shrem Visiting Artist Residency at UC Davis, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program, Sculpture Space, Stove Works, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NYC STAR Residency, SVA MFA Art Practice AIR, Pratt Fine Arts AIR, The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Studio Program, BRICworkspace Residency, Ox-BOW School of Art Residency, Wassaic Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts AIR, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellowship AIR, Studios at MASS MoCA, NARS Residency Fellowship, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Watermill Center, and more. She has been awarded the FST StudioProjects Fund, New American Fellowship: American Immigration Council, Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, ArtSlant 2017 Prize, Asylum Arts Grant, Australian Council for the Arts Grant, and Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, among others. Past exhibitions and performances include Smack Mellon, BRIC Biennial, FLUX factory, EFA Project Space, Equity Gallery, Queens Museum, MAD Museum and more.
