About

b. 1993, Cranford, New Jersey (Greater New York Metropolitan Area).
Lives and works in London, UK.

Gina DeCagna is an American artist based in London. She earned her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2020), where she focused on multimedia storytelling techniques in contemporary art, following her BA (Honors) in English, Creative Writing and Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania (2016) in Philadelphia, PA. There, she studied modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, and had founded, edited, and directed a publication and community of over four hundred collaborating contemporary artists and writers known as Symbiosis (2012–2016).

She’s currently initiating a new nonprofit curatorial platform dedicated to rewriting human stories, Palimpsest Projects (2024–present), based from London and working across different places. In other organisational capacities, she has served as a Venice Biennale Fellow with the British Council (2019), Public Engagement Fellow of UPenn’s Institute of Contemporary Art and Center for Contemporary Writing (2017–2018), and on the nonprofit Steering Committee of the Philadelphia Avant-garde Studies Consortium (2017–2018).

Her art has shown in solo and group exhibitions across London, Philadelphia, and New York. In addition to her visual art and exhibitions, her critical writing and poetry have appeared in a variety of small-press and independent cultural publications.

See Artist Statement.