DVAA Member since 2026
Catia Colagioia
WEBsite: catiacolagioia.com
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About:
catia colagioia is an artist, researcher, and musician born, raised, and based in South Philadelphia, with a BA in Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania. She has shown work across Philadelphia in venues such as Vox Populi Gallery, Pentimenti Gallery, Icebox Project Space, and AUTOMAT. She has also been recognized for her post-disciplinary, public-facing, community-oriented work. She is currently an artist member and the curatorial lead of Vox Populi Gallery, and an artist member of Da Vinci Art Alliance.
Artist Statement:
colagioia's process is rooted in her traversal of Philadelphia, in her collection and resurrection of found objects and memories, often likening organic forms in the cityscape to our bodies: both held tenuously, and subject to the encircling pressures of modern systems. There is a shifty logic applied to the objects she uses through her attempts to construct something physically unfamiliar yet already existent within the collective psyche. While her work possesses an uncanny, angelic quality, it also embodies the systems she references, and their by-products, shoddy barriers, and hypocriticalities. She applies care, repair, and automatism as methodologies, instinctually relating and tending closely to the desires of the objects she uses.
She is set on carrying the objects, (and by proxy, ourselves) past their (our) status as surplus matter, and into a new territory, where their (our) properties and histories empower them (us) to communicate in service of something larger.
