Art Awareness Post: Kyla Zoe Rafert
- Oct 19, 2025
- 2 min read
Kyla Zoe Rafert is both a print maker and a painter who currently lives in Amanda, Ohio along with her husband and two daughters. Her biography states that she"creates highly detailed ahistorical tableaus that feature young women and girls in surrealistic, psychologically potent scenes. Her works are ultimately a treatise on the multiple, sometimes conflicting expectations society has and has had for women and girls, and the often confusing transition from girlhood, to adulthood." Additionally, she draws artistic inspiration from her experiences living on a farm with her family.
Her Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from the Rhode Island school of design
Master of Fine Arts from the University of Delaware
Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin
Her Residencies:
Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT)
Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY)
New York Mills Regional Cultural Center (New York Mills, MN)
Hoofprint (Chicago, IL),
Popps Packing (Hamtramk, MI)
ACRE (rural Wisconsin)
Her Awards and Honors:
The Bennett Prize Finalist (2022)
Second Place in the Ohio Art League (2021)
Artist Support Grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council (2022)
Lunar Codex Laureate (2021)
Member of the International Guild of Realism
Some Solo Shows:
Sarah Gormley Gallery (2022) and (2020)
Muskegon Museum of Art (2023)
Some Group exhibitions:
"Rising Voices 3" (2022–2026)
Ohio Art League Spring Juried Show (2021)
ACRE Art fair (2010)
Lunar Codez (2021-onward)
Some Publications:
Story Magazine (2022)
ARTnews (2023)
Columbus Alive (2020)
Her Process Posts from her Facebook:
Some of Her Finished Works:
Her Website and Social Media:
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