BIO

Katherine Hunt is a multimedia artist whose work examines how cultural assumptions and systems of meaning become habits of perception, shaping what we see, what we overlook, and how we interpret the world. Her practice questions how authority determines meaning and whose perspectives are privileged, marginalized, or excluded. Drawing on cultural and social psychology and experimental visual ethnography, Hunt employs chance-based processes, repetition, and duration to investigate how internalized frameworks condition perception, often without conscious awareness. Her material and time-based works create conditions in which subtle variations in form, texture, repetition, and temporal pacing shift how images and objects are perceived and understood.

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. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in permanent collections throughout the United States.

Hunt earned a BA with a double major in Cultural Psychology and Indigenous Studies at the University of Minnesota, where she was mentored by Anishinaabe educator and activist Winona LaDuke. She earned an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts, with graduate research extending into curatorial and archival fellowships focused on avant-garde and experimental cinema in Paris.

Hunt's professional experience includes public arts programming at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where she developed workshops and educational programs. Her work in film and television art departments, sustainable agriculture with an emphasis on native and heirloom gardening, and community-based installation continues to inform her attention to material culture, site, and preservation. In northern New Mexico, she collaborated with the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo community on an heirloom seed-saving garden and a weaving-based public installation developed with Pueblo youth and local community members.

Hunt lives and works in New York City.