About me.
Kayla Lockwood (b. Orange County, CA) 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 that underpin postwar ideals, exposing how nuclear family expectations, gendered violence through labor, and capitalist promises of permanence sustain the myth of stability. 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 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
Group
2028 The Honeycomb Project, Makers Paradise — Reno, NV
2028 The Honeycomb Project, Slonina ARTSpace — Las Vegas, NV
2028 The Honeycomb Project, Western Nevada College — Carson City, NV
2027 The Honeycomb Project, Jean B. King Gallery (Herrett Center) — Twin Falls, ID
2027 The Honeycomb Project, Truckee Meadows Community College — Reno, NV
2026 The Honeycomb Project, Exhibition Hall (Brewery Arts Center) — Carson City, NV
2026 The Honeycomb Project, Mills Station Arts & Culture Center — Rancho Cordova, CA
2026 The Honeycomb Project, Great Basin College — Elko, NV
2025 - 2026 The Honeycomb Project, Kirk Robertson Gallery (Oats Park Art Center) — Fallon, NV
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