Kiara Gilbert

Kiara Gilbert has predominantly spent their life between North Florida, and Georgia. The artist explores how emotional landscapes are shaped and perceptions of history are misinformed by colonized narratives surrounding the past. Growing up black and queer in the South has given them a reverence for the culture and beliefs that enslaved people cultivated and the ability to center black diasporic perspectives in their life and work. Through the use of print media and sculptural installations, they create scenes that speak on feelings of frustration, love, listlessness, and ancestral loss. They have been a recipient of the Six Creative Grant, the Janice Hartwell Award in Printmaking, a 2019 participant in the Humanity in Action Berlin Fellowship, a Mint Leap Year Fellow from 2022-2023, and a South Fulton Arts Partner in 2023, and a 2025 Arts and Social Justice Fellow at Emory University.