About
Kirra Kusy is a multidisciplinary artist from Colorado, USA, currently based in Barcelona. Her practice centers on sustainability, working primarily with found materials: discarded objects, secondhand textiles, and organic matter — which she repurposes into sculptural installations, hand-stitched tapestries, and oil paintings. Rather than heavily altering these materials, she preserves their stains, marks, and embedded histories, allowing their past lives to remain visible and integral to the work.
Guided by a desire to continue the stories of the materials she gathers, Kirra approaches making as a process of care and continuity: one that acknowledges our shared origin in what came before. Her works are often created in response to specific environments, and remain mobile, adapting to the landscapes and contexts in which they are shown. This mobility reflects the transient, accumulative nature of her practice, which is deeply rooted in place, encounter, and transformation.
Hand stitching functions as both a meditative act and a connective thread throughout her body of work; a gesture of mending that ties together her sculptural pieces with the slower, more contemplative rhythms of her textile and painting practice.
Kirra Kusy (b. 2001, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA) is currently living and working in Barcelona, Spain. She earned an Associate of Arts degree from Colorado Mountain College in 2020 and completed three years of study at Metàfora Studio Arts in Barcelona. She is the co-founder and co-director of 200CENT, an artist-run space and community in L’Eixample, Barcelona.
In 2025, she presented her solo exhibition Drive at the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs (Sala La Gòtika) and participated in the Errant Festival in Coll de Nargó. She was awarded the 2024 Embarrat Prize for her installation L’Escala, which led to the production of Drive.
Other recent exhibitions include Puerta Cuadrada (solo, CasaEspacio, 2023), her thesis presentation at MACBA and Joan Prats Warehouse (2023), House on Fire (FOC, Zona Franca), Fragility (Canadian University, Dubai, curated by MIA Art Collection), and Contemporary Voices 2022 (Plataforma^2, Barcelona).
She has also participated in A Bunch of Things Connected (two-person show at HOMESESSION, curated by Laura Llaneli), The Downward Spiral (site-specific, curated by Marc Larré), The Crown, and Moments (MUTUO gallery, curated by Piotr Perski).
Before moving to Spain, she was a member of the Elevation Dance Studio company team for nine years and taught classes there from 2019 to 2020.
If you are a creative of any sort please don’t hesitate to reach out. I would love to collaborate and share ideas. Love, Kirra