BIO

Katherine Hunt is a multimedia visual artist whose practice draws from Social and Cultural Psychology, Experimental Ethnography, and aleatoric methodologies. Drawing from interdisciplinary research and working across painting, moving image, fiber, and installation, she critiques how cultural forces shape perception and the subtle processes through which these forces are internalized. By prioritizing process over product, her non-linguistic and non-narrative visual and tactile forms resist conventional perceptual frameworks and challenge fixed systems of meaning.

Hunt’s experimental methodologies operate in dialogue with social epistemology and contemporary theory, incorporating historical and modern perspectives on visual culture. Through this approach, she deconstructs the systems that shape how culture is created, valued, and interpreted—questioning whose authority determines the production of cultural meaning and whose voices and perspectives are included or excluded. Her practice creates opportunities for alternative ways of knowing that avoid definitive conclusions.

Hunt’s work has received recognition through grants 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. It has been presented in solo, two-person, and group exhibitions in the US and internationally. Ki Smith Gallery in New York City currently holds a collection of her work.

Hunt holds a BA in both Cultural and Social Psychology and Indigenous American Studies, with a minor in Gender Studies from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, where she was mentored by Anishinaabe educator and activist Winona LaDuke. She earned an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, specializing in Curatorial Criticism and Archival Research in Avant-Garde Film, conducting thesis research at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

Beyond her artistic and scholarly pursuits, Hunt has extensive professional art department experience in film and TV, having worked as a prop designer, set builder, and art director. These roles honed her skills in the research and preservation of ephemera, which inform her tactile, site-specific installations. Her work with the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo community in northern New Mexico integrated cultural, ecological, and artistic preservation by creating an heirloom garden for creative and cultural functions.

Hunt recently served as Program Facilitator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, leading initiatives in the public art studio division. She now divides her time between New York City and northern New Mexico, where she continues to develop her moving image and studio-based practice.