About


I’m a multi-media artist born and raised in Western North Carolina and currently based out of Asheville, NC. My studio practice is varied; I am inspired by multiple mediums and methods that all feed off eachother including painting, sculpture, printmaking, video, and film photography. Keeping a varied practice helps me stay inspired to create in the studio and allows me to explore the same themes/concepts through various lenses. 

Though I don’t have a single defined style or medium, all my work deals with themes of the body, space, and escape. Recently I have been interested in exploring themes of disaster and resistence through a locak/regional lens. 




 
           Self Portrait        16” x 20”        Oil on wood          2022

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Education
UNC-Chapel Hill– Bachelor of Fine Arts — 2023

Exhibitions
Group Exhibition: “Timeless”. Gallery 906. Wilmington, North Carolina, 2025.

Group Exhibition: “Fragments of Hope”. Cowee School. Franklin, North Carolina, 2025.

Juried Exhibition: “ArtFields 2025”. Lake City, SC. 2025

Group Exhibition: “Nest”. VCA Artspace. Melbourne, Australia. 2022.

Group Exhibition: “2021 Student Show”. LDM Gallery. Florence, Italy. 2021.

Group Exhibition: “Quarantine Exhibition”. Carolina Union Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2020.



Features
Feature in Mergoat Magazine, “Appalachia the Catastrophe, Appalachia My Home”. Multiple pages throughout. 2025.

Feature in Rednecks Rising, “From the Holler to the Sea”. 2025.

Feature in Superfroot Magazine, Issue 1. Pages 88-89. 2021.

Feature in Ogma Magazine. Digital publication. November 2020.

Vogue Online feature of original garments and set photographed by Tristan Brown, 2019.


Awards
Teravarna Talent Prize in international juried “Color 6” painting competition, 2023.

Jonathan E Sharpe Scholarship from the UNC undergraduate studio art awards, 2019

Sculpture Garden Phase I Commission Honorariums from the UNC undergraduate studio art awards, 2019



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Relevant Work Experience
Director of the Visual Arts, Asheville Conservatory of the Arts.  Asheville, NC. Current.

Artist, Bottle & Bottega. Portland, OR. 2023.



Contact

Instagram: @nitara__k
Email: nitarakittles@gmail.com