About the artist
Pangea Kali VirgA WAS BORN AND RAISED IN NEW YORK AND LIVES AND WORKS IN MIAMI,FLORIDA
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Social responsibility and environmentalism is pivotal to her art, as she attempts to communicate urgent, difficult messages in beautiful and fun ways through narrative layered fiber art works, dramatic experiential art and performance, free and public sustainable art and skills workshops, and other collaborative projects with public and private institutions.
Pangea has dedicated herself to helping transform the art and fashion industry to be a more sustainable and equitable one, creating art and wearables out of upcycled materials and nature using zero waste practices, supporting her belief in the power of art and clothing as storyteller, cultural marker, and political catalyst.
Outside of her core practice, Kali Virga is a sustainability advocate and lecturer, arts event producer, and educator to hundreds of student artists of all ages.
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The artist has been showcased in over 60 international publications, exhibited in over a dozen exhibitions including solo shows at the Deering Estate (2025), Miami Beach Botanical Garden (2021), group shows at Green Space (2023+2024), CAMP Gallery (2024), and MOCA (2022+2023), has been awarded multiple grants and residencies, including, but not limited to the Knight Art Champion Grant (2022); Foundation House Residency (2025), Deering Estate Artists in Residence (2023+2024), ProjectArt Residency (2021-2023), Peter Bullough Foundation Residency (2023), Miami Dade Individual Artist Grant (2022+2023+2024) and the first Community Advocate Award for the annual Zero Waste Miami Coalition Awards. Pangea Kali Virga is a current Artist in Residence at Oolite Arts.
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“My fiber art practice explores environmental advocacy and the complexity of ecosystems through using fashion waste and community oriented projects. I have transformed my creative process to solely feature unique zero waste processes, non-traditional materials, and upcycled materials sourced directly from the My fiber art practice is dedicated to lifting up the environment through artful observation, advocacy, and education. Using materials like upcycled textiles and recyclables I combine patchworked compositions with dense embellishment to highlight global wastestreams and local ecosystems, as well as create an expansive dream of an environmental utopia through wall hangings, design, programming, and film. The community plays a large role in my work whether it be through dialogue, materials exchange, or collaborative execution. My work creates joyful spaces for environmental action, understanding, and community building."
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pangea kali virga at her little river studio
ARTIST STATEMENT
Pangea Kali Virga crafts experiential dreamy fantastical worlds using fiber and community as her medium.
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Patchworked and embroidered, distressed and woven, worn or hung, her work recontextualizes waste and beauty in a realm that inspires play, curiosity, and action. Pangea's work is ornate and resilient, each stitch an intention, every fiber meticulously collaged. Layered and maximalist with built up textures that beckon touch and closer examination in a rainbow of colors. Her work ranges from wall hangings, installation, and sweeping 30ft gowns to delicate palm-sized fiber collages all lovingly executed with upcycled materials and refuse sourced from the community, that shift the viewer’s understanding of the act of creation and destruction to imagine it as a closed loop cycle. Her creative fiber production is zero waste. The underpinnings of many of her projects stem from the natural world, literature, and creating equity through transparency and community action. Through her fiber art and community outreach via workshops, lectures, and various happenings ranging from fashion shows to massive collaborative public art projects, Pangea tries to reimagine the praxis of entrenched and failing systems; highlighting the flaws of consumerist practices in engaging, vibrant, and collective ways.
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