Kymia Nawabi
2009 Swing Space Resident, 77 Water Street
Kymia Nawabi (b.1980) is a multi-disciplinary artist working within drawing, sculpture and short stop-motion animation. Nawabi received her BFA from East Carolina University, and received her MFA from the University of Florida. She recently was awarded a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and her works were exhibited in the 2009 Queens International 4 at Queens Museum of Art.
Nawabi's selected awards include: Aljira Emerge 10 Program; The Canal Chapter Residency and New York; Women’s Studio Workshop Fellowship and Residency, Rosendale, NY. Her exhibitions have included a real real worrier warrior, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC, and NINCOMPOOP and Dwarfbaby, Dead End Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Kymia Nawabi currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
During her Swing Space residency, Nawabi has proposed to create medium to large-scale installations that will recreate passages from her larger drawings on paper. Becoming somewhat of an ethnologist of her own experiences due to previous experiences with Social Anxiety Disorder, Nawabi's pieces portray the psychogenesis of her characters within her mythology based on her autobiography; specifically her human abject experiences surviving as the “other.” Sensations and delusions from societal interactions at different stages of infancy, child, teen and adulthood all create her cast of characters quarks and downfalls, as well as the panorama. Through Nawabi’s allegory of human behavior and synergy, we are given another realm of reality through her perceptions of what is real that is often felt but not seen.
