About

BIO

Katya Neptune is a Filipina diaspora  (b.1976 Angeles City, Philippines) based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She works as an interdisciplinary artist with a socially engaged practice. Neptune has exhibited her work in various public spaces, including the Museum of Florida Art & Culture, Coral Springs Museum of Art, ArtsWarehouse, Cornell Museum of Art, Mad Arts Museum, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Mifa Gallery, Ali Cultural Arts, and Miami Independent Thinkers during Art Basel.  She has also been featured in various periodicals such as the Highlands Sun Mid Florida Newspaper, Sun Sentinel, Broward Palm Beach New Times, Pelican Newspaper, Pompano Beach Magazine, RiverWalk Fort Lauderdale, and PureHoney Magazine. Neptune’s work is process-oriented, reflective, and introspective. Neptune’s work explores the complexities of mental health. She uses personal and intimate visual narratives to share her struggle and healing to normalize conversations around this topic and to de-stigmatize mental illness. Overall, the heart of her practice is a commitment to authenticity and vulnerability and to serve as an advocate for others.

 In addition to Neptune’s art practice, in 2009, she founded ArtHeart. A non-profit organization that aims to empower artists of all levels to inspire healthful and imaginative growth in her community. As the Creative Director and Chief Curator for ArtHeart, Neptune has curated numerous exhibits in South Florida featuring emerging and established global artists.  In addition, ArtHeart serves as a fundraising mechanism for orphans in Rwanda, Africa, by partnering with We Are Zoe, a non-profit organization that strives to break the cycle of poverty through education initiatives for orphaned children.

Statement

I am an interdisciplinary artist, and my practice investigates mental health, spirituality, and cultural identity through material experimentation and structured abstraction. Working across mixed-media sculpture, abstract mapping, photography, painting, digital art, and installation, I use each medium as a tool for critical inquiry grounded in psychological and conceptual frameworks.

My work examines the systems, symbols, and language used to define mental health, challenging conventional narratives and superficial interpretations. By integrating spiritual frameworks and cross-cultural influences, I construct visual structures that mirror fragmented memory, cognitive patterns, and internal logic. My installations and mappings function as diagrams of thought; nonlinear, layered, and investigative.

I position my work as a platform for examination and discourse. I approach art-making as a research-based process that questions how mental states are perceived, classified, and communicated. Through this approach, I aim to expand the visual and conceptual vocabulary surrounding mental health and provide alternatives to reductive or sensationalized portrayals.

My practice contributes to contemporary dialogues about identity, perception, and the evolving relationship between the mind, society, and visual language.