about

McKayla Witt is a Vietnamese American Artist hailing from a little bit of everywhere and currently based in Santa Monica, California (no, she does not surf yet!). Her days begin with diatribes against colonialism, end with exultations on female rage, and she always makes time for tea. 

Obsessed with warping, breaking, and redefining structure, McKayla’s work attempts to examine how we can begin to carve out new spaces for ourselves and each other in a world equally obsessed with keeping those same structures in place. 

She is asking how we can be dragons and soft blankets and cunning foxes. She is asking how we can be old, and ancient, and modern, and new. She is asking how we can start to be all of this at once.  

She’s also her mother’s funniest daughter! And has been called spunky, fun, and even so talented you forget she’s 4’11!

She graduated from Boston University with a degree in both Theater Arts and Political Science—a two for one deal! Since then she’s been moonlighting as a woman in STEM, reading 15 books a month, and baking shortbread.