Kayla Witt is a Czech-Canadian painter recognized for her spiritually reflective and symbolically vivid oil paintings. She engages the viewer on a quest to find purpose, physical and spiritual well-being, and self-actualization. Windows, storefronts, and symbols of wellness culture are frequent motifs for the artist, who transforms them into surreal meditations on the marketing of pain and healing. With an interest in Jungian psychology, folk tales, and mythology, Witt transforms the genre of still-life into one that is full of movement, theatricality, and narrative.
Kayla Witt’s work is on view now in Twilight Zone a group exhibition at Arsenal Contemporary Art NY in collaboration with Night Gallery LA
On view from April 24th-June 6th, 2026
21 Cortlandt Alley 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013
Group exhibition including:
Nicolas Baier, Michel DeBroin, Max Hooper Schneider, Rose Marcus, Scott McFarland, Sterling Wells, Kayla Witt ❤️
ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY
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NIGHT GALLERY
Present
TWILIGHT ZONE
April 24th - June 6th, 2026
Nicolas Baier, Michel de Broin, Scott McFarland, Max Hooper Schneider, Rose Marcus, Sterling Wells, Kayla Witt.
Happy birthday to my father. He has influenced so many original artists in fine art and tattooing. Continuing a legacy of surrealism across multiple disciplines including oil painting, experimental film and ambient music. Studying and respecting lineages and predecessors of artists. Carrying forward knowledge, technique and innovation. Frank Frazetta, HR Giger… and metal. Can’t forget metal. 🤘
Somehow, I turned out to be a hippie. But, I say, it takes one to know one! 😂🙏🖤🎶 thanks for all the opportunities and inclusion in so many special, once-in-a-lifetime art gallery and music industry experiences. Learned a lot from you!
Photos from Gruyeres, Switzerland 2011 solo exhibition at HR Giger Museum
#surrealism #darkart #tattoos @hr_giger_museum
Today is the last day to catch Wanda Koop’s magic at Arsenal Contemporary NY ✨ This wonderful exhibition—Magnetic Field—in collaboration with Night Gallery showcases Wanda’s incredible talent and limitless imagination. The exhibition marks Wanda’s first solo show in New York since 2018 and follows Night Gallery’s epic presentation of historical works by the artist recently at Frieze New York 2025.
Wanda created this most recent body of work in her summer studio at Riding Mountain, Manitoba, a few hours from her longtime Winnipeg home in Canada. The resulting, multi-layered landscapes and skyscapes are both idyllic and fragile. Calligraphic reeds break through a tranquil pond in 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘥, and a bright orange sun in 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 evokes the Manitoba fires that recently forced 20,000 residents to leave their homes.
Her newest paintings offer wry considerations of technological doomerism. She debuts her “AI Ghost Trees,” in which barren tree trunks form the suggestive letters “AI” as if nature itself were warning us of a conspiracy. Wanda’s approach to technology embraces double-edged humor and a broader, longer view. It’s unsettling to see a signifier for artificial intelligence in tree trunks, to try to find linguistic configurations in pond reeds and electronic patterns in the night skies. Yet as technology increasingly consumes our daily lives, it becomes impossible to escape its shadow in even the most remote places. Painting gains meaning not via its technological utility, but for its very presence and persistence as a primordial object of communication. Wanda feels out her direction with her own internal guide, creating luminous fields that exist outside of language—be it early script or large language models. Her canvases reconnect us with the mysteries of the natural universe, which will persist long after we and our gadgets are gone.
@nightgallery@arsenalcontemporary
Congratulations @wanda_koop on one of the most beautiful and powerfully moving shows I’ve seen in a long time. I wish I could gaze at them all for eternity ❤️🔥
Behind the Scenes for Death by Bridge music video production circa 2019. A classic sapphire in the rough. Thankful to everyone who was part of this. Reminiscing.
Director Paola Duran @panicgallery
MUA @annettebragasmua
📸 @yomicomoreno
#music #musicvideo #filming #productionday #2020 #production #femaleproducer #womeninmusic #oniros #film #director #tabithabooth #mood #death #deathdoula #transformation #violin #singersongwriter
“Remember what it took for you to be here.”
💙💛❤️🖤 credited to @7soulsdeep
With @panicgallery
#streetart #nycart #meditation #empowerment #nyc #thoughts #family
A massive congratulations to Wanda Koop on her solo presentation with Night Gallery at Frieze New York ❤️🔥👏😍🙌
I will be dreaming of these for many moons to come @wanda_koop@nightgallery@friezeofficial
Standing on the shoulders of those who came before me.
📸 @panicgallery
#portrait #photography #photooftheday #artdirector #creativedirector #studio #women #creative #waiting #patience #love #respect #gratitude #journey #bnwphotography #mood #edit
Two of my favorite people in the world. This was at my dad’s solo exhibit in 2011 at @hr_giger_museum in Switzerland.
Happy Father’s Day ❤️
📸 @paulaboothellis
#art #family #memories #paulbooth #tabithabooth #hrgiger #darkart #tattoos
