Episode 1: Interview with artist Katya Grokhovsky.

Izabela Gola and Rebecca Major interview Katya Grokhovsky, a multidisciplinary artist, who addresses issues that inform her art, her activism within an art context, and her experiences as an immigrant artist through a feminist lens.

An episode of the I ART New York podcast, hosted by Izabela Gola, Rebecca Major, titled "Episode 1: Interview with artist Katya Grokhovsky." was published on April 1, 2019 and runs 62 minutes.

April 1, 2019 ·62m · I ART New York

Summary

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 at MASS MoCA, Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, ArtSlant 2017 Prize, NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, among others. www.katyagrokhovsky.net

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