Artist Statement/ Biography

Katherine’s current series of mixed media assemblages were prompted by 2020’s national protests and reckoning for racial, political and social justice for people of color in America. Using the photographs she took at protests in Manhattan and Brooklyn she collages them, with paint, found objects, and the text from the signs in the crowds onto wood panels. In a nod to the storytelling tradition of American block quilting her pieces are comprised of the conjoined wood panels resulting in three-dimensional wooden quilts.

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Katherine Kisa is a full time multidisciplinary artist born in Nairobi, Kenya. She emigrated to the US with her family as a child and attended the University of Toronto where she earned a BSc. degree in Genetics. She began her art career as a science student developing a style which often embraces both her artistic and scientific passions. She creates mixed media assemblages on wood panels incorporating acrylic or oil paint, found objects, street photography, and text. Katherine’s work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Art Miami and in group and individual exhibitions in New York, Washington, DC, and Chicago.