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:

this too is a threshold, AUTOMAT, 11.1.25 - 11.29.25
opening reception: 11.13.25; 6-9 pm

Upcoming exhibitions:

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

RESIST, Huddle Gallery. 11.21.25 - 11.23.25
opening reception: 11.21.25; 5-9 pm

Past exhibitions:

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.