Biography

Kiki McGrath is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Her installations and site-specific performances draw from spiritual texts and practices. Approaching the body as an instrument of devotion, she combines repetition and visceral gestures to create contemporary rituals.

Selected projects include Performing Grapefruit in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, Swept Away in the Art in Odd Places Festival in New York City, and Anchorhold in Washington DC’s National Cathedral. Her work has been featured in Image Journal and The Chicago Reader.

She received a Feminist Biennial Award from Woman Made Gallery and a Grünewald Guild Fellowship. Residencies include Living in the Play/Il Nido, Mother's Milk, and the Henry Luce III Center for Arts & Religion. Her projects have been supported by the Illinois Arts Council and Washington DC's Commission on the Arts & Humanities.

She hosts Coachhouse1, an artist-run project space in Chicago IL.