Kathy Sirico (b. 1990, Philadelphia) is a Brooklyn-based artist and poet creating experimental collage-based abstract paintings, stained-glass sculptures, and large-scale wall-based installations. Her work focuses on climate change, bringing together the scientific, personal, mythological, and mystical to create energetic monuments to the natural world. Sirico’s artistic process is one of labor and transformation—painting, cutting, weaving, gluing, dyeing, and sewing are how she creates empathetic, devotional, and innovative works of art that tell vital contemporary stories about the environment.

The physical surface of Sirico’s wall-based art features collaged layers of painted acrylic on canvas pieces alongside weaving and recycled textile elements. Each work is a tapestry of textured surfaces and layered colors filled with intense detail and unexpected moments that reimagine the material language of contemporary painting to include a diverse range of craft, decorative, feminist, and architectural legacies. Similarly, her stained and fused glass works use light, color, form, and symbolism to explore both the haptic and spiritual experience of being immersed in the natural world.

Sirico’s artworks are empathetic monuments to the natural world that break down imagined boundaries between humans and the environment in a time of climate crisis. She considers perspectives as small as the microscopic elements of ecosystems and as vast as the larger energy of the cosmic universe. Sirico’s deep connection to the natural world and personal observations in the landscape allow her to express an emotional core that she believes is vital to artistic work around climate advocacy. Sirico is currently working on an art and poetry series about her experiences in Svalbard, an archipelago close to the North Pole, and an epicenter for accelerated climate change. She will return there in the autumn of 2025.