Kearra Amaya Gopee: Visiting Artist Lecture

Join us for an evening with artist Kearra Amaya Gopee as they share an in-depth look at their practice and the works featured in If the word we: 59th Carnegie International. Lectures are free and open to the public. About the Artist Kearra Amaya Gopee (born 1994, Miami, FL, raised in Carapichaima, Kairi (Trinidad and Tobago); lives on Lenape land in New York) is an anti-disciplinary artist and facilitator. Using video, sculpture, sound, and writing, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work. Gopee has shown work at documenta 15, Kassel, Germany (2022), and The Kitchen, among other international film venues. They have participated in residencies at Skowhegan, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, and NLS Kingston. They have been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, the Leslie Lohman Museum, Queer|Art, and the Global Fund for Women. In 2024, Gopee was an Elaine G. Weitzen Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have lectured at Emory University, Rutgers University, and the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture. In 2025, Gopee was an artist in residence at MASS MoCA. They hold an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, with a concentration in interdisciplinary studio and a BFA in photography and imaging from New York University. Finding the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater The theater is located on the ground floor of the Carnegie Museum of Art. From the main entrance of the museum, head down the stairs to the right of the reception desk and the theater will be at the end of the corridor. If you are entering from the parking lot at the rear of the museum, the theatre will be immediately to your right.