Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist and facilitator from Carapichaima, Kairi, living on Lenape land (New York). Using video, sculpture, sound, the written word, and other media, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. Their work has been exhibited at venues such as documenta15, The Kitchen, and at film festivals internationally. They have been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, the Leslie Lohman Museum, Queer|Art, and the Global Fund for Women. Previously, they have participated in residencies at Skowhegan, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, and NLS Kingston in Kingston, Jamaica, among others. They have guest lectured at Emory University, Rutgers University, and the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture. Gopee was an Elaine G. Weitzen ISP Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2024. They have been developing an artist residency and research platform titled a small place, after Jamaica Kincaid’s book of the same name, in Carapichaima, Trinidad and Tobago.
