Boston, MA
About Kira Leigh:
Kira Leigh is a 24 year old MassArt Alumni who graduated in May 2011 with a BFA in Art Education. She currently lives in Boston with her cat Rolly and her partner Jon, making surrealist work (painting, photography, drawing, digital…) that grows organically like a rambling story.
Her work contains elements of gaming and popular culture, and touches upon identity, the self, the body, feminism, co-morbidity and gender.
Using a free association technique known as automatic drawing (and painting), Kira transforms her mediums of choice into psychological self portraits, much like how therapists use word association, only visually.
Selected exhibitions
- Alternative Cafe: Socio Network - Seaside, California, 2012
- Yes.Oui.Si Space: The Salon - Boston, Massachusetts, 2012
- Quarks Gallery: Intimate Monsters: Solo Show - Paris, France, 2012
- Yes.Oui.Si Space: The Salon - Boston, Massachusetts, 2011
Education
- the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Art Education - Boston, Massachusetts,2011
Press Accolades
- Juxtapoz Online: Kira Leigh's Erotic Grotesque - April 11th 2012
- Walking with the Beast: Intimate Monsters Review - May 9th 2012
- the New England Journal of Aesthetic Research: Salon Feature/Review - March 9th 2012