Ceysson & Bénétière

Education

2011  MFA, Sculpture, School of The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL

2007 BFA, Victorian College of the Arts – Melbourne, Australia

2000  BA Fashion (Honors), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology – Melbourne, Australia  

Katya Grokhovsky was born and raised in Ukraine, lives and works in NYC. She is an artist, educator and a Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB). Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a BA (Honors) in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. 

Grokhovsky is the recipient of numerous residencies and fellowships including The Stuart B. and Barbara Padnos Distinguished Artist-In-Residence at GVSU (Grand Valley State University, MI), Ekard Artist in Residence at Bucknell University, PA, Windgate Artist in Residence at UAFS (University of Arkansas Fort Smith), The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Visiting Artist in Residence at UC Davis, CA, Stove Works, Sculpture Space, STAR Residency at Tiger Strikes Asteroid NYC, and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program (2020-current), among others.

She has been awarded the FST StudioProjects Fund (2022), Brooklyn Arts Council Grants (2023, 2022, 2021, 2019), New American Fellowship (2022), NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship (2018-current), ArtSlant Prize (2018), Asylum Arts Grant (2016), Dame Joan Sutherland Fund (2013), Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart Grant (2013), NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists (2012), Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists (2007), Australia and others. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Smack Mellon, MAD Museum, Queens Museum, Artist’s Television Access, The Situation Room, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA NY), BRIC Biennial, Equity Gallery, FLUX Factory, Eastern Connecticut State University, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, EFA Project Space, Hudson Valley MOCA, HERE Arts Center, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College, Watermill Center, NY among others. 

Katya Grokhovsky works in installation, performance, sculpture, fiber, video, photography, painting and drawing, exploring gender, identity, labor, body, history and the self. Through research, play, experimentation 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. Working with discarded and found objects and materials, ephemera, consumer goods, fabric, paint, plaster, paper, toys, wood, cement, metal, neon and archives as well as text, voice, ritual gestures, repetitive movement, dance, sound and collaborative social propositions and interventions, she investigates the narratives of migration and displacement, in relation to the preconceived social order. 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. 

Her process and artistic language involve extensive archival, digital, and firsthand research, community, and partner outreach, writing and drawing practice leading to extensive studio experimentation with sculpture, video, fiber, and painting and working collaboratively with movement workers and sound artists. She investigate formation and de-construction of communal pain and is interested in creating platforms, to which other practitioners, partners and public can contribute, centering voices, often forgotten, silenced, marginalized, or excluded at the time of a global conflict epidemic, offering a restorative space. Katya aims to accomplish a broader awareness of historical amnesia and expose challenging issues pertaining to migration, history, collective trauma and the extremes of political regimes and ideologies. As an artist and a woman, with a familial history of tragedies, such as Ukrainian Genocide of 1930's Holodomor, Holocaust legacy and sexual abuse, she is invested in analyzing and learning about power dynamics and generational trauma, notions of freedom and democracy through personal and humane approach, to save our future and culture and live in a more inclusive, kind, and open world as an artist-citizen.

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Common Language, The Stuart B. and Barbara H. Padnos Gallery, GVSU, Allendale, MI

2024

Is there a Place?, Fort Chaffee, UAFS Pop up, Fort Smith, AR

2022

Point A: Capter one, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY 

2021

Fantasyland, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

2019

Privately Owned, Overnight Projects, Burlington, VT 

2018

Nothing Personal, Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Theater of the Mundane, Chashama space to present, New York, NY

System Failure, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 

2017

Bad Woman, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2016

Pleasure Principle, +/- Project Space, Soho20 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

2013

Bodybeautiful, Galerie Protege, New York, NY 

2012

Slow Dance, BUS Projects, Melbourne, Australia 

Group Exhibitions

2024

Clairvoyance, curated by Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY

2023

Women on the Verge, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

State of Emergence, NADA East Broadway, New York, NY

Extra, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN

2022

Dread in the Eyes, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY 

2021

Heroine-ity, Eastern Connecticut State University, The Art Gallery, Windham, CT 

2020

Borderwalls III, The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

Freedom is an act, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY 

Being & Feeling, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH 

2019

SALLY, The Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY

The Syncope, Bronx River Art Center, BRAC, Bronx, NY

RE:On Site, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY

Every Woman Biennial, New York, NY

BRIC Biennial III, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY

2018

If you have two legs, borrow another pair and run, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY 

2017

Invitational Member Exhibition, Equity Gallery, New York, NY

UPROOT, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

Soft Animal, Field Projects, New York, NY

Other Homes, Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY

Cryin’ Out Loud, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2016

Once more, with Feeling, EFA Project space, New York, NY

Foundation Center, Connections, ART Connects, New York, NY

Our Crazy Life, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY

Dada Here and Now, San Francisco International Art Festival, San Francisco, CA 

Concept, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea

2015

Peekskill Project 6, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

Composition and Layering, Tenri Cultural Institute of New York Gallery, New York, NY 

Ars Continuum, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College, Old Westbury, NY

Face to Place, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation’s gallery, New York, NY

Domestic Ideals: Nostalgia and the Home, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY 

Immediate Female, Judith Charles Gallery, New York, NY

2014

A Wicked Problem, EFA Project Space, New York, NY

Body Language, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY

Bay Ridge, SAW, Storefront Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY

Body Conscious, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College, Old Westbury, NY

All that glitters, Gateway Project, Newark, NJ

2013

Got Eyes, New York City Center, The Lobby projects, New York, NY

Methodical Deconstruction, The Franklin, Chicago, IL

Learning Agency, Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, NJ City University, Jersey City, NJ 

2012

Re-imagine Ourselves Festival, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY

Performances & Screenings

2024

Fort Chaffe, UAFS Pop Up, Performance – Fort Smith, AR 

Bucknell University, Bad Woman, Performance – Lewisburg, PA

2023

Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Between Earth and Sky, UC Davis, Performance – Davis, CA

2022

Ortega y Gasset Projects, Point A: Chapter One, Performance – Brooklyn, NY

American Immigration Council, New American Fellowship, Screening/Performance – Brooklyn, NY

Essex Flowers, Flowers Festival, Performance – New York, NY

RinoArtPark, This is My Body, Screening – Denver, CO

Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA), Phone Home, Performance /Installation – Brooklyn, NY

2021

Six Foot Platform, Dumbo + Brooklyn Arts Council, Paradise Lost, Performance /installation – Brooklyn, NY 

Smack Mellon, Becoming American, Performance – Brooklyn, NY

2020

EFA Open Studios, Guest from the Future, Performance – (online)

BRICxHOME, Hours, Hours, Performance – (online)

2019

The Old Stone House, Mary W, Performance – Brooklyn, NY