Bio:
Kiera Stuart is a queer feminist contemporary artist known for her surreal figurative oil paintings. Raised in rural Long Island, NY, she was deeply influenced by her parents' teachings about native cultures, environmental justice, and living in harmony with the earth. Stuart pursued anatomical drawing and fine art at the Fashion Institute of Technology and The Art Students League before earning a Bachelor's degree in Studio Art from Hunter College in 2018. She completed her MFA in Fine Art at Brooklyn College in 2022, where she developed a strong interest on feminist studies, ecofeminism, and feminist art.
Her artistic journey includes time spent in Mexico City, Guanajuato, and the Yucatán Peninsula, where she delved into Mayan and Aztec art and history. She also participated in the Sachaqa Art Residency in Tarapoto, Peru, near the Amazon Rainforest in 2024, and the Soaring Gardens Residency in Lacyville PA in 2019 and 2020.
Stuart curated five exhibitions featuring over 60 local artists at the Box Factory Gallery from 2020 to 2024. Her own work has been showcased nationally, including a solo exhibit at the Box Factory Gallery in 2022 and a group show titled "Beyond Gender'' at Relational Space Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, hosted by Ceres Gallery in 2023. Based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, she maintains an active studio practice, exploring vulnerability, and the similarities between the female body and nature- while engaging with the NYC art scene.
Exhibition History
Solo Exhibition:
“Monolithic Vulnerability” Box Factory Gallery, curated by Javier Alvarez.
1519 Decatur st. Ridgewood NY, 11221
Nov 11 2022- Jan 6 2023
Group Exhibits:
“Empire of the Gods” Bank Art Gallery, 94 Broadway, Newburgh NY 12550. August 14th-October 4th, 2025
“The Human Layer” Brooklyn Art House, 20-26 Marcy Ave. Brooklyn NY 11211.
April 3rd - May 31 2025.
“Who am I?” Bank Art Gallery, 94 Broadway, Newburgh NY 12550
April 11-June 1, 2025
“3:The Exhibit” Nails in Wall Gallery, St. Luke's. 17. Oak Ave., Metuchen, NJ, 08840,
Feb 8-May 2, 2025
“Pride: All Day, Every Day” Arts Gowanus, Public Art exhibit at Washington Park/JJ Byrne Playground, Park Slope, Brooklyn NYC.
June 1-August 31 2024 and 2025.
“Color A National Juried Exhibition” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition 481 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn NY.
Sept 9-Oct 8th 2023
“Beyond Gender” Relational Space Gallery hosted by Ceres Gallery
527 w. 27th st, gallery 201 Arts+Science collaborative exhibit, a non-binary story told collectively by six artists and scientists.
June 23-24 2023
“Literally, a figurative art show” Shock Boxx Gallery, 636 Cypress Ave, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. March 04 2023-March 18 2023.
“Shelter in the Storm“ 601 Art Space, 88 Eldridge st, NY, NY
May 20-30th 2022
“Process of Abstraction; Nature, movement and Light” The Box Factory Gallery, 1519 Decatur St, Ridgewood NY, March 18 -April 03 2022.
“Coping Reservoir” The Box Factory Gallery, 1519 Decatur street, Ridgewood NY.
Sept 18 2021- October 10th 2021
“International Women’s Day Show” The Living Gallery, 1094 Broadway, Brooklyn NY. March 8th, 2019
“What we call Home” Group art show at Sage gallery, 299-301 Graham Ave, Brooklyn NY March 05 2019 to April 13 2019
“Building Power: A Benefit for VOCAL and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights” Planthouse Gallery, 55 W 28th st, New York, NY. January 20 2019
Hunter BFA Thesis Show at the Leubsdorff Gallery, NY, NY, June 2018
“Collateral” Group Show at the Union City Museum of Art, Union City NJ September 9-October 20th 2017
"Glossary Hole" Group Exhibition at the Living Gallery, 1094 Broadway, Bushwick NY March 12th 2016
The Miami Red Dot Art Fair, group exhibition with the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, SOHO NYC November 30th to December 6th 2010
"The Green Project" Kiera Stuart and Kamol Arkonov at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, Soho NYC. May 10-18th 2010
EDUCATION
Fashion Institute of Technology, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Concentration: Design & Illustration
State University of New York at Stony Brook, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Concentration: painting and studio art
Teacher’s Assistant For Toby Bouno in Ceramic Sculptures Course, Fall 2012
Hunter University, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Bachelor's degree in Fine Art, Graduated 06/2018
Concentration: painting and studio art
Brooklyn College, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
MFA in Fine Art, graduation 06/2022
Concentration: painting
Teaching assistant for Diana Horowitz
Intro to Painting, Spring 2020 and Fall 2020
Fellowships, Grants & Residency awards
Sachaqa Centro del Arte Tarapoto, Peru 8/2023
City Artist Corps Grant recipient 2021
Soaring Gardens Residency, Laceyville PA
Accepted August 2019, July 2020 and August 2021
Kossack Fellowship for painting at Hunter College
Fall 2017 and Spring 2018
Curatorial work:
The Box Factory Gallery Co-Director and Curator
from 2020-2024
1519 Decatur st. Ridgewood, NY 11221
“Omen, Amen” June 18th - August 8th, 2022.
Curated by Kiera Stuart.
“Coping Reservoir” Sept 18th -October 10th, 2021
A group art show featuring art created during the pandemic from 18 local artists. Curated by Kiera Stuart.
Publications
“Pandemic Self Portraits” Book by Adrienne DeLoe, published 06/2022
Shanti Arts LLC - Still Point Art Gallery: Making a Mark, Still Point Arts Quarterly 2020
“Beyond Words” Literary Magazine, Summer edition of 2020
“Club 157 Art Catalogue” Club 157 Catalog Beta Issue / Fall 2018
Cambridge University Press
Selected original paintings for the covers of the following books:
“Managing the Menopause: 21st Century Solutions”, Edited by Nick Panay, Paula Briggs and Gab Kovacs Published July 2015
“Contraception: A Casebook from Menarche to Menopause”
Edited by Paula Briggs, Gabor Kovacs and John Guillebaud Published July, 2014