Shaina Kasztelan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Detroit, Michigan. She was raised in a midwest suburb surrounded by rows of identical houses, ever-changing strip malls, and endless fast-food franchises, all of which have influenced the materials and formal signifiers used in her work.
Operating between painting, sculpture, collage, and installation, Kasztelan creates psychedelic dreamscapes using kitsch commodities that shuffle between curated control and chaotic mess. Through humorous juxtapositions, her work criticizes the pleasure and disgust many of us feel simultaneously due to the excessive consumption of manufactured goods and media prevalent under late capitalism.
PLAYGROUND DETROIT at “Foundations” presents Shaina Kasztelan’s work as a vibrant reflection on excess, contradiction, and the psychological landscapes of contemporary life, opening on July 14, 2025.
