Kayla Lockwood (b. Orange County, CA) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Las Vegas, Nevada, working across installation, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, film, and digital media. Her practice examines home as both a lived experience and an ideological construct, investigating how domestic interiors, residential architecture, and housing systems shape memory, identity, belonging, and lived experience.

 

Drawing from domestic artifacts, family archives, architectural surfaces, and the built environment, she investigates the tension between idealized notions of home and the social realities they often conceal, including histories of labor, inequality, displacement, violence, and care. Through repetition, accumulation, distressing, cutting, and rebuilding, Lockwood transforms familiar objects and surfaces to reveal how personal histories intersect with broader systems of power, gender, housing, and the American Dream. Her work also extends into performative and conceptual explorations of identity and mediated selfhood through artistic personas, including Miss Identify and Social Sin.

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Lockwood has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions including Stories in Blue at Thrd Space Studio (San Antonio, TX), Emerging Perspectives at Delaplaine Arts Center (Frederick, MD), In an Instant at Union Street Gallery (Chicago Heights, IL), and Public Realities – Urban Fictions at Erlebniszentrum CAP Kiel (Kiel, Germany). Her work has also been featured in The Honeycomb Project, a traveling exhibition curated by Candace Garlock and presented throughout Nevada, California, and Idaho. In 2025, she performed in That Show About the Hot Dog at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of CFACoLab.

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Lockwood earned a BFA in Art & Technology from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She currently serves as a Part-Time Instructor in the Graphic Design & Media Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Alongside her teaching and studio practice, she founded the Little Object Library and the Las Vegas–based art collective CUT / CUTS, and is a participating member of Augury House in Portland, Oregon.