Art & Creativity Quote by Kiana Tom

"One day I would like to have my own art show" reads like a modest wish, but it’s really a quiet power move. Coming from Kiana Tom, a model whose career was built inside an industry that packages women as images, the line reaches for authorship: not just being seen, but deciding what gets shown, how, and why. The simplicity is strategic. It’s the kind of sentence that doesn’t need to argue with anyone because it’s already claiming a future where she’s the curator of her own gaze.

The phrase "one day" does a lot of work. It’s aspirational, yes, but it also acknowledges the reality that creative legitimacy is often gated, especially for public-facing women whose fame is treated as a disqualifier for seriousness. Models are routinely invited into art as muses, not makers. Wanting "my own art show" flips that script: subject becomes producer, surface becomes voice.

There’s also a cultural context here that makes the desire feel pointed rather than generic. In the late 90s and early 2000s, celebrity was expanding into lifestyle branding, but "art" still functioned as a prestige zone that polices who belongs. Tom’s statement sits at that border: a pop-cultural figure reaching toward an institution that prefers its artists credentialed, obscure, or suffering.

The intent, then, isn’t just exhibition. It’s reinvention with stakes: a bid to be taken seriously on her own terms, and a reminder that visibility isn’t the same as agency.