About

Erica Keiko Rawald, ‘K’ (they/he/ze) is a multidisciplinary artist working within the realms of installation, hand-built ceramics, steelwork, glass, light, drawing, film, poetry and performance. Born in New York City and raised between Tokyo, Frankfurt and London, K comes from a multicultural and diverse background, no less being queer, genderfluid, neurodivergent and mixed-race themself. Through their reclamation of ‘otherness’, K’s work plays within the liminal spaces of hybridity and the extraordinary, dreaming of possible futures, while daring to touch upon the pain of present and past. It is less a question of which medium is employed, but rather an inquiry into methods of communicating gestures of remembrance, expression, devastation, love, loss and hope.

“I know the world through my hands, I wish to build the world I want to be in.”

K received their BFA in Studio Art and minor in Psychology in 2019 at NYU. Granted a Graduate Scholarship, the Rogalski Scholarship and the Weiss Endowed Scholarship, K is to complete their MFA in Sculpture at Pratt Institute in May of 2025.