About me.
Kayla Lockwood (b. Orange County, CA) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work interrogates domesticity, memory, and emotional labor, challenging the myth of home as a stable cornerstone of the “American Dream.” Working across installation, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, film, and digital media, she transforms everyday objects—furniture, clothing, photographs, and domestic artifacts—into forms that reveal the fragility and complexity of postwar ideals. Her practice emphasizes repetition, accumulation, and gestures of care, using distressing, cutting, and rebuilding as strategies to expose hidden hierarchies, gendered labor, and the tensions between comfort and instability.
Lockwood earned a BFA in Art & Technology from the University of Oregon and is completing her MFA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has developed multiple artistic personas, including Miss Identify and Social Sin, and founded creative communities to support interdisciplinary collaboration. Her installations foreground the emotional, social, and material pressures embedded in domestic spaces, prompting reflection on the labor, care, and expectations that sustain cultural narratives of home, belonging, and stability. By transforming familiar gestures and objects into intimate yet unsettling forms, her work traces memory, endurance, and the invisible work of everyday life.
Education
2026 MFA in Art from University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2022 BFA in Art & Technology from University of Oregon
Exhibitions
Solo
2026 read the fine print, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery — Las Vegas, NV
2025 Dog Eater, Grant Hall Gallery — Las Vegas, NV
2025 Honey, I’m Home!, Grant Hall Gallery — Las Vegas, NV
2022 Vision 20/20: Look with your eyes, not with your mouth, Foyer Gallery — Eugene, OR
2021 DISTORTED NORMAL, Washburn Gallery — Eugene, OR
2020 Social Sin by Miss Identify, Washburn Gallery — Eugene, OR
Curated
2026 She Will Be Hearing From Me Tonight, Grant Hall Gallery — Las Vegas, NV
2025 Dickstruction, Grant Hall Gallery — Las Vegas, NV
2023 Hear My Voice, Mahlon Sweet Field (Eugene Airport) — Eugene, OR
2022 - 2023 Hear My Voice, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art — Eugene, OR
2022 I Am More Than Who You See, Aperture Gallery — Eugene, OR
2021 World of Work Student Exhibition, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art — Eugene, OR
2021 I Am More Than Who You See, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art — Eugene, OR
Traveling
2025 - 2028 The Honeycomb Project, curated by Candace Garlock
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Makers Paradise — Reno, NV (2028)
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Slonina ARTSpace — Las Vegas, NV (2028)
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Western Nevada College — Carson City, NV (2028)
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Jean B. King Gallery (Herrett Center) — Twin Falls, ID (2027)
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Truckee Meadows Community College — Reno, NV (2027)
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Exhibition Hall (Brewery Arts Center) — Carson City, NV (2026)
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Mills Station Arts & Culture Center — Rancho Cordova, CA (2026)
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Great Basin College — Elko, NV (2026)
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Kirk Robertson Gallery (Oats Park Art Center) — Fallon, NV (2025 – 2026)
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Metro Gallery (Reno City Hall) — Reno, NV (2025)
Group
2026 Emerging Perspectives, Delaplaine Arts Center — Frederick, MD
2025 - 2026 Public Realities – Urban Fictions , Erlebniszentrum CAP Kiel — Kiel, GER
2025 Gravity, Desert Biennial Project — Moapa, NV
2025 The Honeycomb Project, Metro Gallery (Reno City Hall) — Reno, NV
2025 Clothesline '25, Student Galleries South — Reno, NV
2025 The Edge of Becoming: Art Without Apology, Commercial Center— Las Vegas, NV
2025 In an Instant, Union Street Gallery — Chicago Heights, IL
2024 UPcycle Art Show, Slonina ARTSpace — Las Vegas, NV
2024 Here & Now: Contemporary Art in Las Vegas, Rotunda Gallery — Las Vegas, NV
2024 Designed to Dwell, Union Street Gallery — Chicago Heights, IL
2024 PATCHWORK, Serva Pool Gallery — Reno, NV
2024 Arts in The Center: Environment - Built/Natural, The Composers Room— Las Vegas, NV
2023 Stone Soup, Desert Biennial Project — Sloan, NV
2023 Temporary Relief, Grant Hall Gallery — Las Vegas, NV
2023 Medium Rare, Student Galleries South — Reno, NV
2023 BREAKING GROUND, PGE Gallery — Portland, OR
2021 Viridi Terra, LaVerne Krause Gallery — Eugene, OR
2021 Dimensions Between, Gordon Hotel — Eugene, OR
2021 Orbital Shift, Eugene Science Center Planetarium — Eugene, OR
2021 Fractal Garden: grow your own code, Symbiocene Gallery — ONLINE
2020 Creative Code Festival, LIGHTBOX — New York, NY
2020 Creative Code Visual Art Showcase, Never Knows Better — ONLINE
Contact me.
@social.sin