Kai Wasikowski is an artist based on Gadigal Land / Sydney, working across photography, video and sculpture. Wasikowski received his BFA (First Class Honours with University Medal) from the University of Sydney (2016) and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2023). As a child of photographers/environmentalists with British, German and Polish settler ancestry, his practice is driven by personal and familial connections to the natural environment and the photographic image—formed adjacent to ecological degradation and rapid technological development since his early childhood.
Kai's projects have engaged predominantly with western traditions of landscape photography and lens-based optics, with an interest in the instrumentality of the camera—how it and various optical technologies prescribe ways of seeing whilst simultaneously constructing an unseen. Employing elements of trompe l'oeil, various imaging technologies and printing techniques, he hopes to question and obscure learnt and canonized photographic codes and western visual/political systems of knowledge.
