Katasi Kulubya

Born in Los Angeles, California / Works in Brooklyn, New York

BIO

Katasi is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans digital art rooted in analog collage and large-scale abstract paintings. Katasi is also a UX design lead at Google and a UX instructor at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), where she teaches through the lens of Inclusive Design. Her overall practice across both fields is a continuous effort to honor individual narratives and create space for all voices in both the physical and digital spaces.

Katasi constructs nostalgic tableaus of intimate social moments using digital collage, placing beautiful people having A Good Time in the foreground of architecturally magnificent spaces. Her whimsical works exhibit playfulness and joy on the surface, with an underlying theme of reclaiming space. This theme is represented through her reimagination of archival imagery, taking people out of their original image context and inserting them into contexts that historically excluded them, challenging perceptions of belonging and identity.