She’s put out many well-received albums, including Both (2018), Watch This Liquid Pour Itself (2020), which won the 2021 Spellemann Award for Best Indie/Alternative, Surviving Is the New Living (2020), The Incompatible Okay Kaya (2021), and SAP (2022). Her latest album, Oh My God, That’s So Me (2024), got praise from Pitchfork for its honest take on distraction and detachment in today’s world. Kaya has worked with artists like Baba Stiltz, Onyx Collective, Anne Imhof, Porches, King Krule, Stix Omar, Deem Spencer, L’Rain, Austin Lee, and Adinah Dancyger.
On the visual side, she’s exhibited at places like Melk and Entrance in New York, K4 Gallery in Oslo, and had a solo show called SANDPLAY at Etage Projects in Copenhagen. Her performance work has been featured at MUNCH in Oslo, Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.