ARTIST STATEMENT: 

My entire life, I have been at war with my body. 

My art is an outlet and self-reflective journey of undoing all the doings non-consensually thrust upon me by ill-intentioned forces. As I stumble down the path toward self-acceptance, I have discovered others fighting the good fight too, empowering women to reclaim their bodies and strive for more than passively accepting that their value lies solely in the superficial. As Lexie and Lindsay Kite so powerfully sum up in their book More Than a Body; “My purpose is to bring light into the world, not to decorate it.” My art, then, can be defined as unrelenting sunrays, highlighting a dangerous system that imprisons women to perpetuate their own oppression. 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

Kathryn Kozody is a mixed media artist based in Calgary, Canada. She is self-taught, creating art forms and installations with bead embroidery, textiles, paper, illustrations, oil paint, and found objects. 

Kozody’s art is reflective of a very personal journey recovering from perfectionism, disordered eating, and body dysmorphic disorder. She explores themes of unattainable beauty standards, diet culture, female objectification, body image, and finding healing through radical self-acceptance. 

Her work is influenced by Andy Warhol, Jeff Koonz, Ale Rambar, Es Devlin, Nick Cave, Chris Millar, and Paola Alonso.