Aiyana Graham
avidagraham@gmail.com
Aiyana Graham
avidagraham@gmail.com
  • Artist Statement
  • Portfolio
    • 2024
    • BFA Thesis (2024)
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • Image Descriptions
  • Essays
  • Info
    • CV
    • About/Contact
    • News
  • More
    • Artist Statement
    • Portfolio
      • 2024
      • BFA Thesis (2024)
      • 2023
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • Image Descriptions
    • Essays
    • Info
      • CV
      • About/Contact
      • News
  • Artist Statement
  • Portfolio
    • 2024
    • BFA Thesis (2024)
    • 2023
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • Image Descriptions
  • Essays
  • Info
    • CV
    • About/Contact
    • News

News

Here, you can see the latest in what I'm up to, including exhibitions, appearances, and uploads on my YouTube channel. You can also access articles that I commonly reference.

Market in the alley uncommons - 04/05

Come purchase my work at the Market in the Alley Uncommons, this weekend, April 5th from 11AM - 4PM. Come see me at 6880 Helen Toland St, Las Vegas NV 89113!

Finding the future: for Palestinian liberation

This is a solo exhibition at Pitch Black Printing Co., which displays five artworks: three pieces on canvas and two paintings on a double sided, hand-made, sewn surface. These works are meditations on time and care in the face of horror and a reminder to bear witness and take action.  View the work April 19th to May 24th, 2025, 7AM to 7 PM with a reception on April 19th at 6PM.

lamp show at curve line space (LA)

A group exhibition I am participating in displaying my sculpture/lamp, some of these are beautiful, a piece that asks audiences to reconsidered their relationship to health, medication, and disability. View the work at Curve Line Space (3384 N Figueroa St. East Los Angeles, CA 90065) from May 17th - July 5th, 2025.

Gravity - Desert biennial project 2025

A one-day group exhibition featuring the works of many incredible Nevadan artists on the theme of Gravity. My work will be a sculpture resembling a bed made out of old, broken ceramics and pill bottles, which considers the changes that the body experiences through (short) periods of time with disability. See this work from October 18th - 19th. 2025. 

support my work

Make Contributions to My Current Projects Through The Field

I'm exploring themes of transness and disability through artmaking and research! You can make tax-deductible contributions to my current projects through my crowdfunding campaign on my artist profile here. 

Aiyana smiling with a caption describing them on their The Field profile.

KWNK radio

Aiyana Graham and Abbay Anderson in Conversation

Listen to this hour-long conversation aired on KWNK 97.7 where Abbay and Aiyana talk about Aiyana's billboard with the Holland Porject; Aiyana's thesis show and paper, bodymind: exploring a trans disabled present; and discuss the importance of queer, disabled, and Indigenous thought in their art practices here. 

Abbay and Aiyana Smiling for KWNK Radio.

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My Patreon

Behind the Scenes of My Work

Subscribe to my Patreon, where  you can view my NSFW works (which I cannot post on Instagram) for free, as well as tiered access to behind-the-scenes content, like timelapses of me painting and narration of my thoughts and process — here!

My profile on Patreon.

Articles

Below is a list of articles that I commonly reference. The titles are listed in plain text and the corresponding files appear in the same order below it. 

  • "Practicing Love" By Jennifer C. Nash
  • "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" by Audre Lorde (Your silence will not protect you)
  • "Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body" by Siobhan Somerville
  • "Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries!" by People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms (PISSAR)
  • "Representing Disability, D/deaf, and Mad Artists and Art in Journalism" by Jones et al.
  • "What Can We Learn about Autism from Autistic Persons?" by Chamak et al.
  • "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" by Tuck & Yang
  • "Remapping a Theoretical Space for Hawaiian Women and Indigenous Feminism" by Lisa Kahaleole Hall
  • "Mestizo/a Gender: Notes Toward a Transformative Masculintity" by Daniel E. Soils y Martinez
  • "Imitation and Gender Insubordination" by Judith Butler
  • "The Problem of Speaking for Others" by Linda Alcoff
  • "Racial Capitalism" by Jodi Melamed
  • "Queer" by Siobhan Somerville
  • "Thinking with trans now" by Aizura et al. 


2013 Nash Practicing love (pdf)Download
Lorde_wk4 (pdf)Download
Somerville, Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Racialized Body (pdf)Download
Chess et all, Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries (1) (pdf)Download
Jones et al., Representing Disability, (D)deaf, and Mad Artists and Art in Journalism (pdf)Download
What Can We Learn about Autism from Autistic Persons (pdf)Download
Tuck&Yang_Decolonization_is_Not_a_Metaphor (pdf)Download
Hall, Hawaiian Women and Indigenous Feminism (pdf)Download
Solis y Martinez, Mestizo_a Gender (pdf)Download
Butler Imitation and Gender Insubordination (pdf)Download
Alcoff_Problem_of_Speaking (pdf)Download
Melamed Racial Capitalism (pdf)Download
Somerville-Queer Corrected (pdf)Download
Aizura et al Thinking with trans now (pdf)Download

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