Kledia Spiro is a multimedia, interdisciplinary artist and educator creating experiential videos, performances, installations, and socially engaged works. Born in Albania and trained with an Olympic weightlifting team, she uses weightlifting as both metaphor and method to explore migration, identity, collective memory, and women’s strength. Her immersive practice blends psychoanalytic concepts with humor and ritual to question movement, power, and presence.

Spiro explores the connection between strength, weightlifting, and daily life as a new celebratory ritual for understanding the relationship between the artist and the audience, as well as the present and the past. By experimenting with indeterminate methods, Spiro wants the viewer to access the otherwise inaccessible spaces. Her works are based on Freudian and Piagetian behavioral concepts: visions that reflect psycho-analysis, behavioral psychology, and a sensation of indisputability, combined with details of odd, eccentric, absurd, totemic, and humoristic elements. By questioning where one is and the concept of movement, Spiro investigates the manipulation of lifting objects overhead and its effects. 

Spiro’s work has been presented at Times Square, the Queens Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Clio Art Fair, a New York art fair featured in The New York Times and Times Square Chronicles. She recently received a Mellon Foundation grant as part of UnMonument Boston for a projection mapping and was commissioned by the City of Boston to perform in States of Emergence. She was the video director for a project that received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award through the Mayor’s Art Challenge, and she was selected for the New England Media Symposium panel Gender, Technology, and Media at Emerson College. She has delivered a TEDx talk titled The Pursuit of Creativity and was the keynote speaker for the New England Museum Association’s Centennial Conference. Her work has received extensive coverage in The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, and WBUR.

Spiro holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, where she also earned a Museum Studies Certificate. She served as a Post Graduate Teaching Fellow and Assistant Professor of Design at Northeastern University and Northeastern University London. She is a current St. Botolph Club Fellow and a member of the Mobius Artists Group.