catia colagioia




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catia colagioia (b. 2001, she/her/they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher & musician from South Philadelphia with a BA (’24) from the University of Pennsylvania in fine art. catia's process is rooted in her traversal of Philadelphia, in her collection and resurrection of found objects, in the investigation of the objects' memories, and in the systems that deemed those objects obsolete, useless, trash.


There is a shifty logic applied to the objects she uses through her attempts to construct something physically unfamiliar yet already existent within her psyche. While her work possesses an uncanny, angelic quality, it also embodies the systems she references, and their by-products, their shoddy barriers, and their hypocriticalities. She applies care and repair as methodologies, tending closely to the desires of the objects she uses. There is a desire to carry the objects past their status as waste, and into a new territory, where they may allow their properties and histories to communicate in service of something larger.

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Artist member of Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

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Upcoming shows:

surplus, Vox Populi Gallery,  9/5/25 - 10/12/2025
    opening reception: 9/5/25; 6-10 pm
    closing reception: 10/3/2025; 6-9 pm

[title forthcoming], AUTOMAT Gallery, opens 11/1/25
opening reception: 11/13/25; 6-9 pm


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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.