Biography
KA Bird (b.1992, UK) is a queer, visual artist based in Newcastle, UK. Using digital media to inform her print-making and painting, her practice is about harnessing the processes and strategies of information circulation, investigating the human in technology, and the technological in the human within the all-out integration of internet and world. She received her MA with distinction in Fine Art from MIMA School of Art, and was awarded a place on the Collective Studio Development Program at The NewBridge Project, where she is a current studio holder.
Education
MA, Teesside University, 2016-2018
BA, Teesside University, 2012-2015
Press
2022, Artists in Residence, End. Magazine
2022, A Conversation on Digital Communities, Domestic Space, and Things We Do Online, On Curating
2022, Interview with KA Bird, Art Reveal
Exhibitions
2023, Upcoming - Total Recall: Memory and Imagination, Mercer Gallery, UK (Group)
2022, Overlay, Owl, Harrogate, UK (Group)
2019, Vacuum Born, The NewBridge Project, Gateshead, UK (Solo)
2019, YO1UNG, Ohkaygal, York, UK (Group)
2019, Collective Studio Work-in-Progress Show, Carliol House, Newcastle, UK (Group)
2018, Monitor, AIR Gallery, Manchester, UK (Group)
2018, MIMA School of Art Fine Art Degree Show, Middlesbrough, UK (Group)
2018, Sundlaug, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, UK (Group)
2018, Artist in Residence at Joya: arte + ecologia, Velez Blanco, Spain (Group)
2018, Fragments, Testt Space, Durham, UK (Group)
2018, Beige Apocalypse, The Auxiliary, Stockton, UK (Group)
2017, Spiritual Vandalism (performance) with OMSK Social Club, MIMA, Middlesbrough, UK (Group)
2017, Lost Boys, The House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough, UK (Group)
2017, Middlesbrough Art Weekender, Middlesbrough, UK (Group)
2017, Saturday Night TV Party, Kuhle Wampe, Nottingham, UK (Group)
2017, 100 Years of Oui, Cowdinsky x Kimberly Clark, London, UK (Group)
2016, Reverie (performance) with Arca x Jesse Kanda, East London Film Studios, London, UK (Group)
2016, Girls Night In, The Auxiliary, Stockton, UK (Group)
2015, End of the World, The House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough, UK (Group)