Kianja st robert biography
KIANJA STROBERT
Kianja Strobert is known for dynamic explorations of acrylic, ink and other materials that have established her as an innovative voice in contemporary abstraction. Her mixed-media sculptures and works on paper share a coarseness of texture and an expressive line. Strobert’s work translates the world into energetic planes of color, rendered in thick but refined brushstrokes that keep the eye in constant motion. The suggestion of movement or fluctuation results from the reactions of her various materials to their structural supports.
Often working in series, Strobert strives to maintain a similar rhythm throughout each work by implementing similar colour palettes and visual motifs, as in a recent series that combined sculptures of concrete blocks and terracotta shards with bold abstractions on paper rendered in vibrant autumnal hues. Her delicate and colourful works reveal a preoccupation with assuring that every edge of the composition commands an illusion of depth, perspective, light, and motion. Pushing the boundary between abstraction and figuration, Strobert’s works have no identifiable subject and yet are highly evocative of light and space.
Kianja Strobert
KIANJA H. STROBERT
Born 1980 in New York, NY
Lives and works in Hudson, NY
Education
2006 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2004 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003 The New York Studio Program, New York, NY
1998-2000 The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Elephant, Campoli Presti, London, UK
when is brunch?, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2017 The Button, Marinaro, New York, NY
Halsey McKay Gallery, Easthampton, NY
2016 Giant, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Of This Day in Time, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012 Nothing To Do But Keep Going, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Going on Foot, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2007 New Work, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2021 Light, Stone & String, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
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Selected solo exhibitions
2025
Pennies from Heaven, Marinaro, New York, NY (Forthcoming)
2021
Elephant, Campoli Presti, Paris, FR
Kianja Strobert: when is brunch?, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2017
Kianja Strobert, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Button, Marinaro, New York
2016
Kianja Strobert: Giant, Tilton Gallery, New York
2014
Of this Day in Time, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
Nothing to Do but Keep Going, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2011
Going On Foot, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2024 .
Between the Cracks, Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY
Painting Deconstructed, curated by Leeza Meksin, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Reciprocity, curated by David Pagliarulo, Marinaro, New York, NY
The Agreement: Chromatic Presences, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Subliminal Horizons,Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
Light, Stone, and String, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
Hôtel Le Lièvre #3: Nick Mauss and Kianja Strobert, Campoli Presti, Paris, France
Shaking the Trees, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Grouper, Broadway, New York, NY
Ten Years, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
Art and Soul, curated by Reginald Madison, Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY
2020
Blue Flowers, Le Maximum, Venice, CA
Abstract! Minimalism to Now, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Surely Some Revelation Is At Hand, Marinaro, New York, NY
2019
Yellow, September, Hudson, NY
Flat Out II, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Sit-In, University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
Baba Yaga Group Show, Pulvers Glass/ Grand Buffet, New York, NY
2018
Gardening on the Moon, George Lawson, Emeryville, CA
Sit-In, September, Hudson, NY
2017
Immigrancy, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Magnetic Fields: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (traveling exhibition)
Magnetic Field