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:
surplus, Vox Populi Gallery, 9.5.25 - 10.12.25
opening reception: 9.5.25; 6-10 pm
closing reception: 10.3.25; 6-10 pm
virtual artist talk: 10.18.25; 4-6 pm; register here.
Upcoming exhibitions:
this too is a threshold, AUTOMAT Gallery, 11.1.25 - 11.29.25
opening reception: 11.13.25; 6-9 pm
Huddle, Vox Populi Gallery, opens 11.7.25
preview: 11.5.25; 6-8 pm
Past exhibitions:
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, 11.25.23 - 12.4.23
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.
what (i remember) is true (?), 2021
- risograph prints
- 8.5 in x 14 in
In tandem with the zine "what is true (?)," these prints and the installation of the prints further examine the tensions between expression and intention, as well as the absorption of truth through detail and how we consistently recalibrate those details in sum as 'memory.' It also touches on the courage necessary to express your truth when you inhabit a certain stature.
In this project, the utilization of the media of unpaginated, unbound zines and risograph prints has allowed the concept of time to be explored in a distorted and multiplicitous manner, forcing the viewer to experience confusion, to try to follow the line of remembrance, and to try to reconfigure information into something that is at least vaguely recognizable.
In this project, the utilization of the media of unpaginated, unbound zines and risograph prints has allowed the concept of time to be explored in a distorted and multiplicitous manner, forcing the viewer to experience confusion, to try to follow the line of remembrance, and to try to reconfigure information into something that is at least vaguely recognizable.