For the past ten years, Kalie Boyne has used art and storytelling as a method of exploring the social messages we have unconsciously absorbed while consciously restoring an inherent recognition of others and an enduring faith that unearthing and fully embodying our deep selves is possible.

While studying media misrepresentation and the role of art in challenging one-dimensional stereotypes at Brown University, Kalie Boyne completed Talking To Strangers, a collection of one hundred portraits alongside transcribed conversations with each individual. These portraits and stories were completed between 2014 and 2016 and displayed in Providence’s City Hall for a year.

In 2017 and 2018, she worked with eighteen different women and non-binary femmes to discern and visually describe their most intense emotional states, creating a space to honor the complex experiences of personhood that women and femmes are encouraged to either express in specific, restrictive ways or repress completely.

She is currently working on Paradise, a five-part graphic novel series that began in 2018, with excerpts forthcoming in The Offing, Black Warrior Review, and Salt Hill.

She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with her partner Javier Sandoval.