Katie Revilla
January 11 – April 19, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 11 | 5 to 8pm
A site-specific installation by Katie Revilla in /room/, juried by Lian Ladia and Lisa Rybovich Crallé.
You Are a Paradise Enclosed is a site-specific installation by artist Katie Revilla that includes sculpture, ephemera, and sound. With the wish to heal seven generations of her family, past and future, the artist brings elements from a wide range of sources, disciplines, and histories into dialogue and collaboration. Found and family photos, ocean water, and her father’s totaled car radio and subwoofer sit together, all bathed in yellow light. Rather than defining a cohesive map or narrative, she invites viewers to consider each item individually and speculate about, even fabricate, the connections between them. Through her installation, Revilla aims to create an inheritance that protects her interiority and defends against the pressure to define and reveal oneself.
Katie Revilla is an interdisciplinary artist based between the Bay Area and Chicago. She has exhibited her work throughout the U.S. and her research has been supported by UC Berkeley, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Northwestern University. She was a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in 2020, attended ACRE Residency in 2021, and graduated from Northwestern University with an MFA in Art, Theory, and Practice in 2023.
You Are a Paradise Enclosed is generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.