Biography

Kiki McGrath is a visual artist who constructs temporary environments and performs rituals in public and sacred spaces. Her work explores themes of domestic labor, contemplation, and social history.

Selected exhibitions and performances include Swept Away in the Art in Odd Places Festival in New York City, Anchorhold in Washington DC’s National Cathedral, 8HRS in Elevate Gallery at 21c in Chicago, and Spiritual Exercises in Caravita Oratorio in Rome, Italy. Her work has been featured in The Chicago Reader, Image Journal, and Dove Tail magazine.

She received a Feminist Biennial Award from Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, a fellowship from the Grünewald Guild in Washington State, and residencies at Mother’s Milk in Kansas, the Poor Farm in Wisconsin, and the Henry Luce III Center for Arts & Religion in Washington DC. Her projects have been supported by the Illinois Arts Council and Washington DC’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She hosts Coachhouse1, an artist-run project space in Chicago.