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 engages domesticity, housing, memory, and emotional labor, challenging the myth of home as a stable cornerstone of the American Dream. Through the transformation of everyday objects—furniture, clothing, photographs, and domestic artifacts—she exposes the fragility of postwar ideals, using repetition, accumulation, and gestures of care, alongside distressing, cutting, and rebuilding, to reveal hidden hierarchies, gendered labor, and tensions between comfort and instability. She has developed multiple artistic personas, including Miss Identify and Social Sin, extending her practice into performative and conceptual explorations of identity and mediated selfhood.

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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). She has also participated in the traveling exhibition The Honeycomb Project, curated by Candace Garlock, which has been presented at venues including Metro Gallery (Reno, NV), Kirk Robertson Gallery (Fallon, NV), Great Basin College (Elko, NV), Mills Station Arts & Culture Center (Rancho Cordova, CA), the Brewery Arts Center (Carson City, NV), and Truckee Meadows Community College (Reno, NV), among others across 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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She earned a BFA in Art & Technology from the University of Oregon and an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Lockwood is the founder of the Little Object Library and the art collective CUT / CUTS, and is a participating member of Augury House in Portland, Oregon.