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, 1519 Decatur st. Ridgewood NY, 11221 11/10-1/30/2023
Group Exhibits:
“Color A National Juried Exhibition” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Sept 9-Oct 8th 2023
481 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
“Beyond Gender” Relational Space Gallery hosted by Ceres Gallery 527 w. 27th st, gallery 201 6/22-6-24/22
Arts+Science collaborative exhibit, a non-binary story told collectively by six artists and scientists.
“Literally, a figurative art show” Shock Boxx Gallery. 636 Cypress Ave, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 03/04/2023-03/18/2023
“Shelter in the Storm” 601 art space, NY, NY. Brooklyn College MFA Thesis Exhibit
06/18-06/32/22
“The Process of Abstraction: nature, movement and light” Box Factory Gallery, 1519 Decatur street, Ridgewood NY. 3/05-4/22/2022
“Coping Reservoir” The Box Factory Gallery, Sept 18 2021 to October 10th 2021. 1519 Decatur street, Ridgewood NY.
“Tell Me More” Art Gallery 118, online Exhibit May 4 - June 4, 2021 website https://www.artgallery118.com
“International Women’s Day Show” The Living Gallery Brooklyn NY Sept 2019
“The Cosmic Cunt” Public Art Exhibit in Miami, May 2019
“What we call Home” Group art show at Sage gallery, Brooklyn NY 03/05/2019 to 04/13/2019
“Building Power: A Benefit for VOCAL and the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights” Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY. 01/20/2019
Hunter BFA Thesis Show at the Leubsdorff Gallery, NY NY 06/2018
“Collateral” Group Show at the Union City Museum of Art, Union City NJ 09/2017
“Fusion” Benefit art show for the Homeless at The Lovecraft Bar, Manhattan NY 04/2017
"Glossary Hole" Group Exhibition at the Living Gallery, Bushwick NY 03/2016
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, 2010
"Native Contours, glorification of the female form" the Tina Y'ess foundation charity fundraiser art show. Brooklyn NY August 15 2010
"No Biting" 320 Gallery, group show curated by Rustam Davletchin, New York, NY July 20th 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”
A group art show featuring art created during the pandemic from 18 local artists. Curated by Kiera Stuart.
Sept 18th -October 10th, 2021
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