catia colagioia

catia colagioia (b. 2001, Philadelphia) is a Philadelphia-based artist, researcher, and musician working across sculpture, installation, video, print, and performance. She has shown work across the Philadelphia area, and is an artist member of Vox Populi Gallery and Da Vinci Art Alliance, and holds a BA in Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her practice is rooted in her ongoing traversal of Philadelphia. It engages the collection and resurrection of found materials and experiences, treating urban debris and overlooked objects as carriers of memory, pressure, and latent agency, often likening organic forms in the cityscape to our bodies: both held tenuously, and subject to the encircling pressures of modern systems.

Through processes of care, repair, and automatism, she reconfigures discarded materials into forms that feel simultaneously unfamiliar and deeply internal, drawing on a collective psychic language. These works often hold tension between the angelic and the abject, exposing the contradictions, failures, and residues of the systems that produce them. 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:

MOUTHFUL, Vox Populi Gallery, 5.1.26 - 6.14.26
opening reception: 5.1.26, 6-10 pm.

Upcoming exhibitions:

OPEN, Gallery at Fabriq, 6.26.26 - 9.4.26
opening reception: 6.26.26, 7-9 pm.

Precious Protection, Da Vinci Art Alliance, 7.28.26 - 8.23.26
opening reception: 8.1.26, 5-7 pm.
closing reception: 8.23.26, 12-2 pm.

Recent exhibitions:

SOUL STAKE, Gray’s Warehouse, 3.20.26 - 4.26.26
we call the moon the people’s wife, Pentimenti Gallery, 1.30.26 - 4.4.26
Huddle, Vox Populi Gallery, 11.7.25 - 12.14.25
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, Project Ieerie, 7.28.23 -8.18.23

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Press:

Space on Space Magazine, coverage for “MOUTHFUL” May 2026 (Image)
Space on Space Magazine, coverage for “SOUL STAKE” Mar 2026
Space on Space Magazine, coverage for “we call the moon the peoples wife” Mar 2026
34th St Mag, coverage for “we call the moon the peoples wife” Feb 2026
Penn Today, coverage for “let me know you are alright” Sep 2023

Talks/Panels:

Alumni Panel, Weitzman School of Design, Feb ‘26.
surplus Artist Talk. Oct ‘25. Link here.

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Click here to view CV.

For all inquiries: studio (at) catiacolagioia (dot) com

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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, 2026.

on being one of many, 2021

stapled, laserjet zine

8.5 in x 7 in

'on being one of many' was inspired by the Joanna Macy essay "World as Lover, World as Self' which explored how shifting one's perception of the world away from individualism and towards a more global kinship (seeing your 'self' as not ending with your skin, but extending far beyond that) has the potential to be a powerful catalyst to empower folks to get involved in repairing the broken systems that continue to hurt our societies and our environment.

This zine's goal is to integrate those concepts by being a workbook of sorts, with writings, exercises, and meditations. These zines were distributed both physically and digitally (printed hyperlink to the pdf file posted around Philadelphia & shareable social media link) hoping to be found by those who may already be on the brink of this world-as-self view, but haven't yet tried to integrate it into their daily practices.