About Katya

Baltimore City

Katya Villano is a queer and trans painter whose work focuses on the relationship between longing, shame and desire.  They work from stages that house 3D figures and paintings of earlier stage arrangements of the same figures, giving new paintings multiple iterations of a body or form, allowing its reality to remain multi-faceted. Their approach is a trans practice where role is shaped by relationship, the body is ever-changing, and depiction is limited to tangential representations.  Their… more

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