BIOGRAPHY

Kasie Campbell is an award-winning visual artist working on Treaty 6 Territory. In 2015, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture at the University of Alberta. Campbell’s work integrates a variety of media including sculpture, photography, and installation with performative means.Themes of the abject and simultaneous tensions around beauty and the grotesque surrounding the female body have been major points of interest in her work. Notably, Campbell has exhibited her work throughout Canada and internationally at Grounds for Sculpture (south of NYC), Mana Contemporary in Hamilton, NJ, Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL, New York City at the Westbeth Gallery,Viljandi, Estonia and more recently a part of the group show titled The Scene at the Art Gallery of Alberta. Currently, Kasie is curating her first exhibition titled Crash Course, is an interactive, digital multimedia exhibition at the Crash Hotel exploring the theme of BODY-body politics, consent, the gaze and embodiment.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Best face forward is a performative installation where the artist performs beauty rituals from the late 40’s, early 50’s using feminine products and objects from the kitchen as a way to highlight the absurdity of the expectations placed on women then and now.

www.kasiecampbell.com