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Keioui Keijaun Thomas curates OPEN STUDIOS: “not even tomorrow can deliver you from today”, asking “How can we come together to face this present moment?” Bringing together Alex Patrick Dyck, Zora Jade Khiry and Maxi Hawkeye Canion, three artist that are:
1. Bad Bitches.
2. Thinking about the body, ritual, communion, language, deliverance and perhaps, what healing can look like, taste like, sound like and feel like.
3. Black and Brown femmes tearing and building up tomorrow, because we must make tomorrow a possibility for girls like us today––delving into grief, joyous rupture and an anointment by the universe saying “bloom bloom bloom.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Keioui Keijaun Thomas is a New York-based artist. She creates live performance and multimedia installations that address the multifaceted realms of Black identity formation. Through a captivating fusion of voice, video, installation and sculpture. Thomas constructs immersive environments that blur the boundaries between the body, its surroundings, and its social meanings. Her work insists on the transformative power of Black life, reclaiming space, time, and nature as sites of possibility, resilience, and becoming. Thomas’s work emerges from an iterative process informed by her writing and performance; her practice is linguistic as much as it is bodily. Utilizing an array of materials such as hair, tape, water, latex, enamel and skin to create tableaus that are intricately intertwined with her own body. She reimagines what it means to be Black in nature, in movement, and in relaxation offering a counter-narrative to histories of extraction, erasure, and violence. Thomas is a 2026-27 Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellow, 2026 Watermill Center Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellow, 2023 Jerome Foundation Grant recipient, 2022 MAP Fund Awardee, the Inaugural Winner Queer|Art 2020 Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, and a 2018 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze and Musée Magazine. She earned her MFA with the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA with Honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
OPEN STUDIOS is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process.