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About me.

Kayla Lockwood is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the intersections of memory, domesticity, and loss, challenging the myth of home as a stable cornerstone of the “American Dream.” Working across new media—video, coding—and traditional techniques—textiles, ceramics, film, and sculpture—she interrogates the fragile illusions underpinning postwar ideals, nuclear family expectations, and capitalist promises of permanence. Through acts of iconoclasm such as distressing, cutting, and rebuilding, Lockwood transforms everyday objects into powerful vessels that reveal the tension between nostalgia’s polished surface and memory’s fractured truths.

 

Eager to push the boundaries of artmaking, Lockwood earned a BFA in Art & Technology from the University of Oregon and is currently completing her MFA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Using her skills and knowledge, she has created multiple artistic personas—including Miss Identify and Social Sin—and founded numerous creative communities to unite like-minded artists. Guided by personal experiences of grief, her installations probe how gendered labor, care, and suppressed emotional work shape domestic life, prompting viewers to reflect on the myths of comfort, stability, and belonging embedded in the pursuit of home.

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   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

Curated

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

Group

2025   Gravity, Desert Biennial Project — Sloan, 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

© 2016 by Kayla Lockwood.

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