FRIENDS & FAMILY
Kayla Witt
Born in Calgary, AB, Canada Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 Solo show at Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA (upcoming)
- 2022 Kayla Witt: an In-Focus Presentation, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA
- 2020 Condemned to a Perpetual Jacuzzi...With Millions of Your Best Friends, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 Friends & Family ‘23, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA Felix art fair, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA (upcoming)
- 2022 Reprise, The University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON, Canada
- 2019 Why The @#&! Do You Paint?, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada Everybody Will Be Talking, Kayla Witt & Tyler Matheson, Student Art Innovation Lab, Waterloo, Canada Hot Girl Summer, The Artery Gallery, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
- 2018 Le Petit Déjeuner, The Artery Gallery, University of Waterloo , Waterloo, Canada Mental Health, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, Canada LA Summer, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA
- 2017 Fermenting Feminism, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, Canada YYZ Lab, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Canada Vacancy, Bunker 2, featured exhibition of NUIT ROSE Queer Art Festival, Toronto, Canada Embodied Resistance, Feminist Art Conference, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
- 2016 Political Candy, The Pendulum Project, Studio 223A, Toronto, Canada GradEx, 101st Annual Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Love Me Do, Yellow House Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 2015 Festival of the Body, OCAD University, Great Hall, Toronto, Canada Nuit Rose: A Festival of Queer Art and Performance, The 519, Toronto, Canada 40, I Nuovi 20 - Forties Are The New Twenties, OCAD University, Great Hall, Toronto, Canada Prospettiva , OCAD University, Florence, Italy B.Y.O.B (Bring Your Own Beamer), Florence, Italy Art Clash, California State University International Firenze, Florence, Italy
AWARDS & GRANTS
- 2020 Sylvia Knight Award in Fine Arts, University of Waterloo
- 2019 Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship, University of Waterloo
- 2018 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo President’s Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo Untapped Emerging Artist Award, The Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair
- 2017 Emerging Artist Award, Spark Box Studio
- 2016 Anne Adler Kagan Award, OCAD University Aboveground Art Supplies Scholarship, OCAD University
- 2014 Sandy McQueen Memorial Scholarship, OCAD University
- 2013 Melville P. White Scholarship, OCAD University
RESIDENCIES
- 2018 Otis College of Art and Design , Los Angeles, USA Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Arts Centre, Sackville, Canada
- 2017 Spark Box Studio , Picton, Canada YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Canada
- 2016 Feminist Art Conference Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Canada
