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Katya Grokhovsky, Founding Artistic Director
Born in Ukraine, Katya Grokhovsky is a New York–based artist, educator, and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Grokhovsky has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships, including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program; Keyholder Residency; Lower East Side Printshop; Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Residency; The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Visiting Artist Residency at UC Davis; Sculpture Space; Windgate Foundation Artist Residency at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith; Visiting Artist Residency at Columbus State University; Padnos Distinguished Artist Residency at Grand Valley State University; Ekard Artist Residency at Bucknell University; Kickstarter Creator in Residence; Pratt Fine Arts Department Artist in Residence; Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Artist Studio Program; BRICworkspace Residency; Ox-Bow School of Art Residency; and Wassaic Artist Residency, among others.
She has been awarded the New American Fellowship, FST Studio Projects Fund, Brooklyn Arts Council grants, an Australia Council for the Arts grant, and the Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, among others. Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne, and a BA in Fashion (Honors) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
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Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Associate Director and Head of Communications
Anna Mikaela Ekstrand is the founder and editor of Cultbytes and serves as Associate Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB), where she works collaboratively to shape exhibitions, programs, and partnerships that rethink belonging, authorship, and power. She was co-curator of TIAB 2023: Contact Zone and is frequently invited to curate exhibitions at institutions and galleries. Holding dual master’s degrees in Art History from Stockholm University and in Design History, Material Culture, and Decorative Arts from Bard Graduate Center, her practice moves between research and action, centering feminist, decolonial, and socially engaged approaches to contemporary art. She is interested in what reappears when we question who gets to write history — and how we might write it differently, together.
She has co-edited several books, including Assuming Asymmetries: Conversations on Curating Public Art Projects of the 1980s and 1990s (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2022) and Curating Beyond the Mainstream: The Practices of Carlos Capelán, Elisabet Haglund, Gunilla Lundahl, and Jan-Erik Lundström (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2022), among others.
Photo: Elsa Hammarén