Kiara Gilbert was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and attended the historic Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, before earning a BFA Cum Laude from Florida State University. Currently based in Atlanta, Georgia, the artist explores how their emotional landscape is informed by growing up black and queer in the south. Through the use of print media and sculptural installations, they create scenes that speak on feelings of frustration, love, listlessness, and ancestral triumph and loss. They are currently a Mint Leap Year Fellow, have been a recipient of the Six Creative Grant, the Janice Hartwell Award in Printmaking, and participated in the Humanity in Action Berlin Fellowship.