Kay-Leigh Fisher
RESIDENT
Kay-Leigh Fisher is a visual artist, curator and publisher based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds an Honours in Curatorship degree from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (2020) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand (2019).
Fisher has participated in various exhibitions including, the Inter-Opsia group exhibition (2024) and the Boundless group exhibition at The Kalashnikov Gallery (2024) ,as well the RMB Latitudes Art Fair (2024).
Notably, she was one of the finalists of the 2024 ANNA Award and her artwork ‘A dance with Grace’ (2021) was featured on the cover of the September 2024 issue of the Wanted online magazine.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Fisher is a visual artist whose research and practice focuses on themes and narratives of becoming, thinking through familiar relationships with objects and how they reinforce ideals around racial and gendered identity. By examining the intersection of material culture and identity politics through archives of photography, performance and contemporary art, her work represents a departure from ideal portraiture through the lens of multiplicity and aims to challenge the norms of gendered and racial identity as they have become embedded in our daily lives.
