EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists

Katya Grokhovsky

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Katya Grokhovsky is a Ukrainian-born, New York City–based artist and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. She has participated in numerous residencies and fellowships, including the Keyholder Residency at Lower East Side Printshop, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Residency, Columbus State University Visiting AIR, Padnos Distinguished AIR at Grand Valley State University, Windgate AIR at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith, California Studio: Manetti Shrem Visiting AIR at UC Davis, Ekard AIR at Bucknell University, Sculpture Space, Museum of Arts and Design Studio Residency, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, SVA MFA AIR, Pratt Fine Arts AIR, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NYC STAR Residency, Muhlenberg College AIR, BRIC Workspace, Residency Unlimited, Ox-Bow School of Art Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts AIR, Wassaic Project Residency, Saltonstall Residency, Studios at MASS MoCA, NARS Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute AIR and Watermill Center among others. She is a recipient of numerous awards and grants, including Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, the New American Fellowship, FST StudioProjects Fund, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, ArtSlant Prize and the Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart Grant to name a few. Grokhovsky’s work has been widely exhibited at institutions and galleries such as the Brooklyn Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, PS122 Gallery, AIR Gallery Biennial, NADA East Broadway, Romanian Cultural Institute, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Ceysson & Bénétière, Smack Mellon, BRIC Biennial, Hudson Valley MOCA, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Flux Factory, and many more. Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts, and a BA in Fashion Honors from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.

Artist Statement
Katya Grokhovsky works across installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and performance, exploring displacement as it forms identity, gender, labor, the body, and history. Through research, play, experimentation, and autobiographical experience, she weaves the personal and political together, building worlds that examine archetypes, prejudice, and systems of oppression. Her work emphasizes the absurd and the uncanny within the everyday. Grokhovsky’s cultural heritage and migration from Ukraine inform her practice. Many of her works engage questions of belonging and home through humor, reclaiming the body and found materials through pleasure, chaos, and refusal. Operating within a critical capitalist grotesque, her practice occupies a 21st-century Dadaist, garage- band feminist punk territory. Katya’s work seeks to confront historical amnesia and expose urgent questions around collective trauma, as well as the extremes of political regimes and ideologies by examining the many ways power dynamics shape us.