Kayla Polan (b. Canada 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist working across traditional and new media. She is a current MFA Candidate at the University of Waterloo. She received her BFA, major in Drawing & Painting, from the Ontario College of Art & Design University.
Her practice melds feminism and popular culture to investigate contemporary ideas about domesticity, the home, and consumer culture. In her current work, Polan aims to deregulate notions of appropriateness surrounding bodies, and push through generalized domestic imaginaries to grapple with lived experience and materiality of the domestic sphere. Polan examines the importance of interior space in shaping new subjectivity, and the concept of home through ideas of queer interiority.

Lauren Armstrong
Kaylon Polan
What are you working on now? 
I’ve got a bunch of things on the go at once right now. I’m currently a grad student at the University of Waterloo; I’m working on my thesis and planning for a solo show in April at UWAG. I’m producing a lot of different work for the show, and then I’ll pair it down. All of the work reflects on questions of personal and social identity, and the search for meaningful experience and connection in the everyday. The concept of home is present throughout all the work, thinking about the lived experience and materiality of the domestic sphere...