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.

Shaped by her upbringing in a low-income area of South Philadelphia contrasted with her time at one of the country’s wealthiest universities, her practice is rooted in her ongoing traversal of the city. 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:

Upcoming exhibitions:

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

Semantics of Possession II, 2026

light panel, car ac condenser unit, concrete

48 x 24 in.

In Semantics of Possession, the materials are things once obtained, once held, once released: vehicular detritus and predispositions.

II) To Possess: the inability to fully hold the image when directly in front of it reflects the tenuousness of the conditions of possession.