Kija Lucas uses lens-based media to explore ideas of home, family relationships, heritage and inheritance. She is interested in how seemingly inconsequential moments create changes that last generations. Kija grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Oakland, CA. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006 and her MFA from Mills College in 2010. Her work has been exhibited at numerous venues in the Bay Area as well as internationally in La Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna Italy; and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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