Bio:
Kyra Garrigue is a multimedia artist and educator whose work explores the boundaries of perception by attending to small, often overlooked structural details. Raised in the Adirondacks, her early relationship with the organic landscape instilled a lifelong fascination with the rhythms and hidden architectures of the physical world. Over time, this foundational interest in nature has evolved into a deeply conceptual, material-focused exploration of time, language, and memory. Garrigue’s current studio practice investigates the physical lifecycle and memory of materials, with a particular focus on books as tactile objects shaped by history and use. Blending high-resolution digital scans with physical interventions like tearing and layering, she creates works that bridge natural and constructed forms. Her pieces manipulate text, time, and sound to strip language of its traditional narrative constraints, inviting viewers to experience it instead as material, rhythm, and weight. This multidisciplinary approach reflects an educational background that bridges traditional fine arts with experimental electronic media.
Garrigue holds a B.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and an M.F.A. in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her training also includes music studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, fine arts training at the Art Students League of New York, and a Certificate in Digital Media from the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. This cross-disciplinary background informs her integration of duration, sound, and spatial design within her visual art.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries and new media festivals both nationally and internationally. Notable regional solo exhibitions include In Transposition: Notes to the Unknown at the Grosvenor Art Gallery and A Place Once Visited at the Adirondack Lake Arts Center. Her video works and multimedia performance collaborations have also been included in screenings and festivals at venues such as the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the International Media Art Festival, and the Albany Institute of History and Art. Garrigue has participated in the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency through Collar Works Gallery, and her work has been published in The Vassar Review. Alongside her studio practice, she is an Associate Professor of Digital Media at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York, where she has taught since 2005.
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