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lucky to be together (just above the water)
2026, risograph print, screen, twig, acrylic, gouache, & nails mounted on plywood.
8.25 in. x 13.5 in
catia colagioia (b. 2001, Philadelphia) is a Philadelphia-based artist, researcher, and musician working across sculpture, installation, video, print, and performance. She has shown work across the Philadelphia area, and is an artist member of Vox Populi Gallery and Da Vinci Art Alliance, and holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania.
Shaped by her upbringing in a low-income area of South Philadelphia contrasted with her time at one of the country’s wealthiest universities, her practice is rooted in her ongoing traversal of the city. It engages the collection and resurrection of found materials and experiences, treating urban debris and overlooked objects as carriers of memory, pressure, and latent agency, often likening organic forms in the cityscape to our bodies: both held tenuously, and subject to the encircling pressures of modern systems.
Through processes of care, repair, and automatism, colagioia reconfigures discarded materials into forms that feel simultaneously unfamiliar and deeply internal, drawing on a collective psychic language. These works often hold tension between the angelic and the abject, exposing the contradictions, failures, and residues of the systems that produce them. 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.
lucky to be together (just above the water)
2026, risograph print, screen, twig, acrylic, gouache, & nails mounted on plywood.
8.25 in. x 13.5 in
catia colagioia (b. 2001, Philadelphia) is a Philadelphia-based artist, researcher, and musician working across sculpture, installation, video, print, and performance. She has shown work across the Philadelphia area, and is an artist member of Vox Populi Gallery and Da Vinci Art Alliance, and holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania.
Shaped by her upbringing in a low-income area of South Philadelphia contrasted with her time at one of the country’s wealthiest universities, her practice is rooted in her ongoing traversal of the city. It engages the collection and resurrection of found materials and experiences, treating urban debris and overlooked objects as carriers of memory, pressure, and latent agency, often likening organic forms in the cityscape to our bodies: both held tenuously, and subject to the encircling pressures of modern systems.
Through processes of care, repair, and automatism, colagioia reconfigures discarded materials into forms that feel simultaneously unfamiliar and deeply internal, drawing on a collective psychic language. These works often hold tension between the angelic and the abject, exposing the contradictions, failures, and residues of the systems that produce them. 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.
