Toronto based, New Orleans bred, ADHD inspired.
About Kyla
Kyla Yager is a Toronto based, New Orleans bred Visual Artist with a passion for painting, intuitively portraying emotions and mindsets through her work. As a queer artist living with ADHD and Mental Health, Kyla uses these as a tool to create her compositions. As her thoughts move a mile a minute, so does her paintbrush. Use of hyper-detail, layering, and hidden imagery tricks the eye into multiple perspectives. Her work begins as abstract play and as her process evolves, elements of cubism and psychedelic art make their way into her compositions, describing her signature style as Intuitive ADHD Art. Repetition and pattern are her stimming, which adds to her maximalist style. Ultimately, Kyla hopes to inspire neurodivergent individuals to utilize their disabilities as positive and unique traits, rather than as setbacks in life.
Kyla has been drawing and painting since early childhood, leading to a consistent art practice for over 20 years. She received her BFA in Visual Art from York University in 2018, then completed OCAD’s Fineline Business Accelerator Certification in Summer 2023. She has been exhibiting professionally since early 2020 having been featured in juried art fairs, gallery exhibitions, awarded Best in Show at Danforth East Arts Fair 2023, exhibited in Nuit Blanche 2023, and won Art Battle Toronto May 2024. As a full-time artist, Kyla works as a face painter, live painter, art instructor, muralist, and collaborator.
You can find her work in online publications such as Art Habens, Beyond Words, and The Button Eye Review. View her work in-person at the Riverdale Gallery in Toronto and at Fly Right Galaxy Gift and Studio in New Orleans. If interested in murals, commissions, collaborations, workshops, or live painting, please email Kyla at Artby.KylaY@gmail.com.