Kearra Amaya Gopee (born 1994, Miami, FL, raised in Carapichaima, Kairi (Trinidad and Tobago); lives on Lenape land in New York) is an anti-disciplinary artist and facilitator. Using video, sculpture, sound, and writing, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work. Gopee has shown work at documenta 15, Kassel, Germany (2022), and The Kitchen, among other international film venues. They have participated in residencies at Skowhegan, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, and NLS Kingston. They have been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, the Leslie Lohman Museum, Queer|Art, and the Global Fund for Women. In 2024, Gopee was an Elaine G. Weitzen Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have lectured at Emory University, Rutgers University, and the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture. In 2025, Gopee was an artist in residence at MASS MoCA. They hold an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, with a concentration in interdisciplinary studio and a BFA in photography and imaging from New York University.
