Keioui Keijaun Thomas (she/her/kiwi) creates live performance and multimedia installations that address the multifaceted realms of Black identity formation. Through a captivating fusion of voice, video installation, and sculpture, Thomas constructs immersive environments that blur the boundaries between the body, its surroundings, and its social meanings. Her work insists on the transformative power of Black life, reclaiming space, time, and nature as sites of possibility, resilience, and becoming. Thomas is a Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellow, a Shandaken: Storm King Artist-in-Residence, a Jerome Foundation grant recipient, a MAP Fund awardee, the inaugural winner of the Queer|Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, and a Franklin Furnace Fund recipient. Her work has been published in the Movement Research Performance Journal and Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory and featured in the New York Times, Artforum, and Frieze. The recipient of a BFA with honors from the School of Visual Arts, she earned her MFA and received the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Keioui Keijaun Thomas, NASTY & FULL: The Dolls Rise, 2024, multimedia installation