Stephanie Kiah

Stephanie Kiah is an internationally recognized visual artist best known for her portraiture and mixed media work. In 2009, Kiah graduated with honors from Norfolk State University with a BA in Fine Arts. During her undergraduate studies, she served as an intern at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.

Kiah’s first solo exhibit, On Earth & Above, opened at the Arts East New York Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, in 2015. She exhibited internationally in Bridgetown, Barbados, at the Caribbean Fine Art Fair in 2018 and 2019, and in London, England, at the Elizabeth James Gallery in 2018.

Her work is a part of private collections throughout America, as well as within Nigeria. Notable collectors of Kiah’s works include actress Taraji P. Henson (Empire, Hidden Figures) and Dr. Monroe E. Harris, Jr., President of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s Board of Trustees. She was commissioned by Charles Allen, son of Eugene Allen (the man whose life inspired the hit movie The Butler) to paint a portrait of his legendary father. In 2018, Kiah's works were acquired for the private collection of the DC-based non-profit Martha's Table. That same year she was awarded the Art Bank Program grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Since 2008, Kiah's work has been in the collection of the Singletary Art Gallery and African Art Museum in Portsmouth, VA.