Kaela Mei-Chee Chambers is a transdisciplinary artist and educator. Combining text, imagery, and installation, Chambers examines an absurdist desire to define and quantify healing; a frantic need for (and, sometimes, failing of) structure in times of personal crisis, and the language constructed around that need.
Chambers received her M.F.A. in 2022 from Columbia University, where she was a named Neiman Fellow at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and a recipient of the Glasier Fellowship. She was a 2023 participant at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Her work has most recently been exhibited at Unclebrother, The Jewish Museum, Half Gallery, the Wallach Gallery, and Lower East Side Printshop.
At MacDowell, she completed drawings as part of her upcoming project "Eastern Aphasia Caress (EAC)" commissioned for High Line Art. The project, which centers on a series of public workshops led by Chambers at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, will go on view in fall 2024.
Portrait by Paula Lycan
