BIO

Katherine Hunt is a multimedia artist interested in how perception is conditioned; how cultural assumptions and systems of meaning become so internalized that they become subconcious and automatic. Her work investigates the systems through which culture is produced, valued, and interpreted, questioning whose authority defines meaning and whose voices are centered or excluded. Through cultural psychology and experimental visual ethnography, she uses chance-based processes to examine how these cultural frameworks shape perception and meaning. Her materially and temporally driven works create conditions in which subtle changes in form, texture, repetition, and duration alter how an image or object is read.

Hunt’s work has received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, with work held in permanent collections across the country.

Hunt studied cultural psychology and Indigenous studies at the University of Minnesota, where she was mentored by Anishinaabe educator and activist Winona LaDuke, and earned an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts. Her graduate research included curatorial and archival fellowships in avant-garde film in Paris.

Hunt's experience in the art departments of film and television, as well as her work in urban and rural sustainable farming, native and heirloom gardening, along with community-based installation projects, continues to inform her tactile attention to material culture, site, and preservation. In northern New Mexico, she collaborated with the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo community on an heirloom garden and a weaving-based public installation developed with Pueblo youth and local community members. Hunt lives and works in New York City.