About the artist

Craig Kucia was born in Cleveland, OH and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art and Post-Graduate diploma from Chelsea College of Art. Using a lush palette with deceptively naïve imagery, Kucia uses his blue- collar upbringing to frame the tragic in the mundane. Incorporating textile- like pattern fields, frequent use of impasto in both purely optical and depictive metonymic instances, Kucia carefully constructs a balance between representing nature's minutia and indulging in colourful abstraction to evoke the things we aspire to and the ways in which we fail.

Kucia’s recent one-person exhibitions include at Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022); Maki Gallery, Omotesando, Tokyo (2022); L21, Mallorca, Spain ((2021); The Pit, LA (2020); SHAHEEN Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (2018); and IBID Gallery Los Angeles (2018). His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Pit, LA (2021); Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL (2021); Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL (2019); ‘TEN’ Artist Curated Projects’, Los Angeles CA (2018) among others.

His work is included in the collections of Progressive Art, Cleveland OH; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA; and Beth Dewoody Collection, West Palm Beach.

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