Katya Savel
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Katya Savel (b.1993) is an artist based between New York, Seoul, Los Angeles, and Los Cabos. Savel’s work centers the body as ground for critical analysis of the human experience, her own experience and memory, and the nature of reality. She negotiates universal phenomena of body discomfort and dysmorphia and the feeling of being a soul confined in flesh. Savel uses material and technology, analog and digital, as portals for the body to morph, mutate, obstruct, subvert, and reveal. Her work nudges us towards the feminine and spiritual sides of technology, questioning how the Self evolves as the distinctions between human, nature, machine, and the intangible blur. Savel investigates language as the root of human perception and understanding, and linguistic evolution as a path toward new realities. Her practice spans sculpture, installation, video and new media, performance, sound, video games, and analog photography.
Savel holds a B.F.A. in Fine Arts and a B.A. in History of Art from Cornell University. She is also a technologist, having spent 5 years developing machine learning products at a Fortune 100 company. After returning to a full-time art practice, Savel has exhibited in New York (Lume Studios, Times Square), Seoul (CICA Museum), and Daegu (021 Gallery), among others, and is currently preparing for a solo show in Seoul in 2025.