Tiger Strikes Asteroid STAR Residency program presents: Katya Grokhovsky
Dec 10th, 2021 – Jan 3rd, 2022
Performance/Closing: January 2nd, 2022, 6pm EST

Brooklyn, NY – Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to announce Katya Grokhovsky as our 2021-2022 STAR resident. The STAR residency program will be held in the TSA NY gallery space, from December 10, 2021 to January 3, 2022. During her time as a resident artist, Grokhovsky will use the gallery for the production, rehearsal and studio development of a new piece entitled Phone Home. The residency will culminate in a livestreamed performance on January 2nd. More details to come as the residency progresses.

Exploring loneliness, dissociation, anxiety, tedium, longing and alienation, Phone Home presents an accumulative exhibition-installation-performance-studio, which evolves and morphs through art-time marking into a dysfunctional uncanny domestic valley-landscape. Situated inside a soft-sculptural fiber installation environment, accompanied by drawings and archival collages, an alien visitor protagonist performs routine Sisyphean gestures-tasks, such as sewing, ironing, cutting, writing, erasing, eating, stomping and dancing. The space proposes a peripheral mirage of otherworldly terrain, reflecting on the pandemic living and its effect on our psyche, body, and home. There will be a performance & closing reception with more details to follow.

Born in Ukraine and raised in Australia, Katya Grokhovsky is a New York-based artist, curator, and Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Grokhovsky has received support through numerous residencies including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program, School of Visual Arts MFA Art Practice Artist in Residence, Kickstarter Creator in Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Department Artist in Residence, Art and Law Fellowship, MAD-The Museum of Arts and Design Studio Program, BRICworkspace Residency, Ox-BOW School of Art Residency, Wassaic Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Studios at MASS MoCA, NARS Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Watermill Center, and more. She has been awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, ArtSlant 2017 Prize, Asylum Arts Grant, Australian Council for the Arts Grant, and Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, among others. Grokhovsky earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a BA in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.

To schedule an appointment to visit the artist during her residency, contact Katya Grokhovsky, katyagrokhovsky@gmail.com