Philadelphia Artists Resist
+ Exhibited at Huddle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. 21 November 2025 - 23 November 2025. +
As part of the Fall of Freedom, artists Melanie Baker & Diane Burko organized “Philadelphia Artists Resist:” a pop-up exhibition featuring artists based in the Philadelphia area whose works challenge the issues of our times.
The artists featured are of varying ages, identities, backgrounds, and practices—but the unifying thread is their collective emphasis on diversity, freedom, advocacy, and resisting injustice & authoritarianism in their work.
The show weaves together many modes of resistance: from the adoption of protest language to the subversion of traditional American iconography and representations of American calamity and decay—all the works resist the rise of authoritative rule, aim to make unheard voices heard, and forefront repressed histories, as we currently face increasingly exploitative systems and the rise of American fascism.
Participating artists include: Melanie Baker, Reade Bryan, The Dufala Brothers, Diane Burko, Catia Colagioia, Heide Fasnacht, Mark Thomas Gibson, Sharon Hayes, Joe Heidecker, Gabe Martinez, Sarah McEneaney, Eileen Neff, Matt Neff, Rachel Selekman, Jonathan Wahl, Ed Waisnis, Jordan Weber & Charlotta Westergren.
Photos by Catia Colagioia.
work pictured: the system, the structure (after Lorde, after Foucault)
Routine and Alchemy
+ Exhibited at Show Town, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA. 18 November 2025 - 23 November 2025. +
Curated by Logan Cryer
Featuring works by Catia Colagioia, Mason McAvoy & Morgan Prince.
“Three artists collecting wisps of magic from the daily concrete.”
Photos by Catia Colagioia.
works pictured; facets, artifacts, my truth, we are, & when the truth emerges, what must recede
This Too Is A Threshold
+ Exhibited at AUTOMAT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1 November 2025 - 29 November 2025 +
In an attempt to mend the rift generated by the dominant cultural understanding of the hero, the membership of Vox Populi present This Too Is A Threshold, a group exhibition testing the gold weight of the narrative monomyth*–where the understanding of myth itself returns to its roots–where it is not understood as something which is singular, fantastical, or untrue, but instead understood as the emergence of inherited and collective truth.
Myths, in their original sense, are about what matters most to us in this world, where we can touch the timeless imagery and archetypes from which the living world arose. What does one heart beat sound like reverberating through the body of an assembly? What of intimacy and dispute, of hurt and repair? What of the largeness of collective liberation? What can we make of departure, or of return? What do we make of all the thresholds and choices in between?
This Too Is A Threshold serves as one half of a collective swap between AUTOMAT Collective and Vox Populi. Both artist-run spaces will be exhibiting the work of their members at each other’s respective gallery spaces in Philadelphia. The Vox Populi exhibition at AUTOMAT was organized by Catia Colagioia.
*Monomyth: The monomyth, is a universal narrative template describing a hero's adventure into a supernatural world to achieve a decisive victory and return transformed. Identified by Joseph Campbell in his book “The Hero With A Thousand Faces,” it's a common pattern in myths and stories across cultures, involving stages like the departure, the initiation, and the return.
The exhibition features works by Aaron Terry, Catia Colagioia, Ella Konefal, Eva Wu, Eve Greensweig, Gregory Donell Parker, Jim Strong, KT Pe Benito, Lane Timothy Speidel, Lea Devon Sorrentino, Melissa Langer, Raúl Romero, & Yuheng Shao.
Photos above taken by Catia Colagioia, and edited by Ella Konefal.
work pictured: touching the other side (it is the restraint)
surplus
+ Exhibited at Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 5 September 2025 - 12 October 2025 +
Artist talk available at this link.
‘surplus’ welcomes the eight newest members of Vox Populi: catia colagioia, China Rain, Ella Konefal, Eva Wu, Kat Nzingha, Liam Paris, Logan Cryer and Ollie Goss. The octet creates art with accumulated materials, whether they be paperwork, dreams, memories, fears or junk. The resulting hoards are presented with impending empathy. Viewers are asked to consider what is the stuff that we are really made of and what can be done with all the rest.
Video above by Ross Pannebecker.
Photos above by Catia Colagioia.
works pictured: cradle for a new dawn chorus, study for the cradle, artifact i & ii, project delay i & ii, watched / watching (though chainlink), gut feels gut knows gut tells, & everything will continue, everything will change.
Low - Tech
+ Exhibited at Huddle, Philadelphia, PA, 13 March 2025 - 25 March 2025. +
The exhibition assembled work from fourteen artists working in a variety of media. Many works are made from recovered materials, such as construction debris, unaccounted data from modern image processing, image transfer negatives, and the electronics inside of a broken insulin pump. Others display a panoply of technological methods and outcomes such as antique electronic phones, handmade electronic instruments, bone conduction, hand-altered film for motion pictures, and low powered devices. The curation of pieces in the show is an offering to indulge in the tension held by the premise of Low Tech.
The show included work by: Catia Colagioia, Charlie Manion, David Rios, Francesca Lally, Gregory Kramer, Hannah Tardie, Jamison Mead, Jazmyn Crosby, Kelly Chen + Caleb Chase, Logan Crompton, Maddie Brucker, Noah Kernis, Ollie Goss, Rachael Henson, and Cristian Varela. Curated by Hannah Tardie & Ollie Goss.
Photos above by Catia Colagioia.
Photos above by Calvin Leon.
work pictured: construction elevator.
stand/still
+ Exhibited at Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 3 April - 14 April 2024. +
Photos above by Anna Neighbor.
work pictured: construction elevator, monument, a line to not cross, artifacts (series), photosynthesis (post-mortem), & elegy.
SPORTS!
+ Exhibited at Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 29 November - 7 December 2023. +
Photographs by Michael Heath.
work pictured: to know not what you need, funeral object (to not believe in goneness), i put my heart down on the county line, girl at play, splint structure/nest #1, artifact 1, & don’t let anything get to you.