Projects — Katherine Toukhy

Katherine Toukhy

Black brown earth riot and golden, 2023, paper pulp on foam, stiffened yarn, turmeric, coffee grinds, acrylic. Photo credit: Jacob Sait Ermete. Public collection of Arab American National Museum

Earth Bodies

Gismee Maya 1, This Body is Water 1, 2017, installation with paper, organza, collected writings of im/migrants, watercolor, acrylic

gismee maya 1+2

We Spun Roses for Bread and Still They Starved, 2021, canvas, acrylic, oil pastel, photographic prints, crochet, ink, 59 in x 49 in

Breathing Through the Cracks of the Impossible Machine

not a performance, 2025, 6 min, participatory performance with original writing as recorded sound, canvas, dirt, paper pulp figure, fabric. Audio in this moment: “Entire family lines, wiped out.” Photo by Manuel Molina Martagón

not a performance

Ecologías Solidarias, 2024, collaboration with Asma Kazmi and Anabel Vázquez Rodríquez, site specific performance in RISD Museum courtyard photo by Marta Fodor

Ecologías Solidarias

Your grief is welcome here

Crown, 2019, animation still

Sunken Sunbeats

Fire-laced, 8 x 13 ft painting, acrylic on canvas 2018-2019

Firelaced

The Khayamiyya Monument, 2017, Canvas, charcoal, acrylic, wood, paint, string, organza, collected personal writings by female im/migrants and U.S. veterans, community workshops, community open mics, 7 ft tall x 6.5 ft wide x 4.5 ft deep .Photo by

Khayamiyya Monument

Figure With Fist , 2016, mixed media, wood, 9 in x 19 in

Armies of Me

With Us or Against Us, 2007, pencil on watercolor paper, 22 in x 30 in

Artificial Romance

Interaction Series 1 , 2005, digital print, 8x10 I painted larger than life-size shadow portraits on canvas, then interacted with them. Photos by Anabel Vazquez

Interaction series

Interaction Series 1 , 8x10 in digital print I painted larger than life-size shadow portraits on canvas, then interacted with them and Anabel Vazquez photographed the interactions. Description is same for next 4 slides also.

Early Explorations (archive)