This podcast features Ma’s House October 2024 resident artist Kiani Kodama! Kiani (b. 1996, Seattle, WA) is a Brooklyn-based artist. They received their BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2020 and studied at Kyoto Seika University in 2018. Kodama is currently a member of Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn, NY. In 2023, they received the Liu Shiming Foundation Art Grant (New York, NY), were Curator-in-Residence at Underland Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and held residence at the LA Warman Writer’s Residency (Brooklyn, NY). They have exhibited at the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY; 2023), Vox Populi Gallery (Philadelphia, PA; 2023), and The Godwin-Ternbach Museum (Flushing, NY; 2022), among others. Recent curatorial projects include Mouthing a Star Shaped Grave at Underland Gallery (Brooklyn, NY; 2023), Deliverance at Trestle Art Space (Brooklyn, NY; 2023), and Brooklyn Voices at Brooklyn Children’s Museum (Brooklyn, NY; 2022).

Alongside their studio practice, Kodama is an organizer and advisor of exhibitions and public programming throughout New York. They have collaborated with organizations such as The Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, The Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn Chinese American Association, NYC Department of Education, The Lenape Center, and more.

Kodama deeply believes in the horizontalization of knowledge and teaches pottery classes at Greenwich House Pottery (New York, NY) and Mouse Ceramic Studio (Brooklyn, NY).

https://www.kianikodama.com/

@kiani.kodama