Kathy Sirico
Kathy Sirico is a Brooklyn-based visual artist and poet working abstractly at the intersection of painting, textiles, sculpture, collage, and installation. Environmental advocacy and interspecies connection are at the forefront of her projects.
Through a maximalist approach and experimental collage-based practices, Sirico unites materials, strategies, and histories of fine arts, craft, and architecture to create large-scale wall-based sculptural installations and freestanding objects with new, found, and recycled materials. Sirico aims to innovate the field of contemporary abstraction by reimagining visual language as ecologically conscious, feminist, and radically empathetic. Her work focuses primarily on climate change, bringing together both the scientific and mystical to create vibrant works of art that tell unique stories essential to our current times.
Kathy Sirico (b. 1990, Philadelphia) holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Bachelor of Science from Skidmore College. She has completed Artist Residencies at the Arctic Circle in the International Territory of Svalbard in 2023, Santa Fe Art Institute Changing Climate Thematic Residency in 2023, Mass MoCA Assets for Artists in 2020, Vermont Studio Center in 2018, the Lucid Art Foundation in 2017, and Recology San Francisco in 2016. Sirico was a 2022 finalist for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Award for her project, “Floating Chronologies,” body of work in conversation with climate change that reimagines our relationship with trees. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.
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