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Kija Lucas is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area using photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. She’s interested in how ideas are passed down and how seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations.
Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francico Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, Palo Alto Arts Center, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center, and Root Division, as well as Venice Arts in Los Angeles, CA, La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna Italy, and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Kija has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Grin City Collective, and The Wassaic Artist Residency. She’s a member of 3.9 Art Collective and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure. Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College.
Kija is also the program manager at The Growlery, an SF-based artist residency where I had the pleasure of meeting, living, and becoming friends with her. In this conversation, Kija and I talk about her current bodies of work, her creative process in photography and scans, her unique journey to identifying as an artist, how what we’re taught about history is bullshit, knowing when to end a project, and more.
[Read more in the show notes](http://theprocess.co/kija-lucas-interview/).
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By Shannon ByrneKija Lucas is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area using photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance. She’s interested in how ideas are passed down and how seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations.
Her work has been exhibited at Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francico Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, Palo Alto Arts Center, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center, and Root Division, as well as Venice Arts in Los Angeles, CA, La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna Italy, and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Kija has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Grin City Collective, and The Wassaic Artist Residency. She’s a member of 3.9 Art Collective and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure. Lucas received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Mills College.
Kija is also the program manager at The Growlery, an SF-based artist residency where I had the pleasure of meeting, living, and becoming friends with her. In this conversation, Kija and I talk about her current bodies of work, her creative process in photography and scans, her unique journey to identifying as an artist, how what we’re taught about history is bullshit, knowing when to end a project, and more.
[Read more in the show notes](http://theprocess.co/kija-lucas-interview/).