Kianja Strobert
Brooklyn, New York, native Kianja Strobert (1980–) studied at The Cooper Union in New York City and The Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois, and earned an MFA from Yale University. Although noted as a studio-based artist, her film collaboration with Angie Keefer, Empire State, takes her outside the creative confines and into the world. But her refined paintings on paper create a whole world of their own, marked by dynamic conceptions of space and depth, and very rich color. Strobert’s color abstractions elicit connections not to religiosity, celebrity, or landscape, but stand as new and absorbing paintings bearing a rigorous search for an abstract language of intense human connection and spatial exploration.
Strobert has had solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Marinaro and Jack Tilton galleries, both in New York City; and the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California. Strobert has been included in numerous group exhibitions including shows at Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York; Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Misssouri; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Lehmann Maupin galleries, both in New York City; and The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
