catia colagioia

catia colagioia (b. 2001) is an artist, researcher & musician born and raised and based in South Philadelphia, with a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Fine Art. She has shown work across Philadelphia and has been recognized for her interdisciplinary, community-facing work. She is currently an artist member of Vox Populi Gallery.

Her process is rooted in her traversal of Philadelphia, in her collection and resurrection of found objects and memories, often likening organic forms in the cityscape to our bodies: both held tenuously, and subject to the encircling pressures of modern systems. There is a shifty logic applied to the objects she uses through her attempts to construct something physically unfamiliar yet already existent within the collective psyche. While her work possesses an uncanny, angelic quality, it also embodies the systems she references, and their by-products, shoddy barriers, and hypocriticalities. She applies care, repair, and automatism as methodologies, instinctually relating and tending closely to the desires of the objects she uses.

She is set on carrying the objects, (and by proxy, ourselves) past their (our) status as surplus matter, and into a new territory, where their (our) properties and histories empower them (us) to communicate in service of something larger.

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Current exhibitions:

Huddle, Vox Populi Gallery, 11.7.25 - 12.14.25
preview event: 11.5.25; 6-8 pm

Upcoming exhibitions:

More to come soon...

Past exhibitions:

RESIST, Huddle Gallery. 11.21.25 - 11.23.25
Routine & Alchemy, Icebox Project Space, 11.18.25 - 11.23.25
this too is a threshold, AUTOMAT, 11.1.25 - 11.29.25
surplus, Vox Populi Gallery, 9.5.25 - 10.12.25
Low tech, Huddle Gallery, 3.13.25 - 3.25.25
stand/still, Charles Addams Gallery, 4.4.24 - 4.13.24
Sports!, Charles Addams Gallery, 11.29.23 - 12.7.23
let me know you are alright, CAFA, 7.28.23 -8.18.23

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unless otherwise stated, all works herein are copyright of the artist & require written permission from the artist for reproduction. © catia colagioia, 2025.

facets, 2025

wood in steel. series of three.

7-8 in. x 3-4 in.

the system, the structure, 2025

risograph prints, window screen, hammered steel, nails, twigs, bark, mounted on plywod, articulating mount, wood, sawhorse brackets.

after audre lorde & michel foucault.

64.5 x 48 x 20 inches

the structure is in place, the motive is unclear. 2025

risograph print, window screen, nails and twig, hammer strikes on steel, mounted on plywood.

18 in x 14 in.

the system which defines good in terms of profit. 2025

risograph print, window screen, nails, bark and twig, hammer strikes on steel, mounted on plywood.

after audre lorde.

18 in x 14 in.

unity in captivity (three ducks together), 2025

risograph print, window screen, nails and twig mounted on plywood.

8.25 in x 13.5 in.

touching the other side (it is the restraint), 2025

steel, debris, grass, brick, screws, wood, hammer strikes.

2.75 ft x 2 ft x 5.25 ft

it is the restraint, 2025

steel, nails, hammer strikes, mounted on panel

7.25” x 13.5”

other worlds (after Andrei Tarkovsky), 2025

risograph print, acrylic and window screen, mounted on panel

8.5” x 9.5”

“we don’t need other worlds. we need a mirror.”

when the truth emerges, what must recede? 2025

steel, nails, hammer strikes, mounted on panel

7.5” x 13.5”

a study for the cradle, 2025

wood, steel, bricks, cinderblock, pressure,
2' x 1' x 3'

everything will continue... everything will change. 2025

acrylic on paper & charcoal rubbing on plastic, screws, magnets, 15.5" x 10"

the cradle (dawn chorus), 2025

steel, wood, recording of a dawn chorus, brick, 6.5' x 1.5' x 6.5'.
2 hr 33 minute 43 seconds.

gut feels, gut knows, what is wrong... & gut tells., 2025

acrylic on paper & charcoal rubbing on plastic, screws, magnets, 11.5" x 9"

project delay i & ii, 2025

project delay i, 2025, inkjet print of 35mm photo + photogram of handmade chainlink and barbed-wire, mounted on OSB, 7" x 8"

project delay ii, 2025, inkjet print of 35mm photo + photogram of handmade chainlink and barbed-wire, mounted on OSB, 9.5" x 7"

watching /
watched (through chainlink) quadtych, 2025

inkjet print of 35mm photo + photogram of handmade chainlink and barbed-wire, mounted on OSB, 35" x 8".