Point A: Chapter One

Ortega y Gasset Projects proudly presents Point A: Chapter One, a solo exhibition by Ukrainian born Brooklyn based artist, Katya Grokhovsky. Reflecting on Grokhovsky’s experience of growing up in Ukraine and double migration, Point A: Chapter One is a mixed-media exhibition, which investigates memory, place and origin, via installation, sculpture, video, painting and performance. By excavating childhood recollections, reimagining and reconstructing fragments of images, places and objects, a collage of absences and fragmented moments is staged. The presence of melancholy, nostalgia and longing, alienation and anxiety is explored as a space of existence for the inner ghost of pre-migration identity at the time of war and global health crisis Exploring migration, cultural identity, labor, gender, history and the self through research, material experimentation and autobiographical experience, Grokhovsky weaves the personal and political together. Building worlds and personas, which examine stereotypes, prejudices, and trauma, emphasizing the absurd and the uncanny in the everyday, her work reclaims the body through pleasure, chaos and refusal, residing in the space of the critical Capitalist grotesque, whilst occupying a 21C Dadaist Garage-Band Feminist Punk territory. Born and raised in Ukraine, Katya Grokhovsky is a New York-based artist and educator. Grokhovsky received an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a B.F.A from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a B.A (Honors) in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Grokhovsky’s work has been supported through numerous residencies including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program, Sculpture Space, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NYC STAR Residency, SVA MFA Art Practice AIR, Pratt Fine Arts Department AIR, The Museum of Arts and Design Studio Program, BRICworkspace Residency, Ox-BOW School of Art Residency, Wassaic Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts AIR, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellowship AIR, Studios at Mass MoCA, NARS Residency Fellowship, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Watermill Center, and more. She has been awarded the New American Fellowship, Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, ArtSlant 2017 Prize, Asylum Arts Grant, Australian Council for the Arts Grant, and Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, among others. Past exhibitions and performances include Smack Mellon, BRIC Biennial, Flux Factory, EFA Project Space, Equity gallery, Queens Museum, MAD Museum and more. Grokhovsky is a Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (est. 2019).