BIO

Katherine Hunt is a New York–based multimedia visual artist whose practice draws on social and cultural psychology, experimental ethnography, and aleatoric methodologies. Working across painting, moving image, fiber, and installation, she employs chance operations to foreground process over product, developing nonlinguistic and nonnarrative visual and tactile forms that attend to the ways cultural forces shape perception and internalization. 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.

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. It has been presented in solo, two-person, and group exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the United States, Brazil, France, and the United Kingdom, and is held in permanent collections across the country. She is currently represented by a New York–based gallery.

Hunt holds a BA in Cultural and Social Psychology and Indigenous American 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, with a concentration in Curatorial Criticism and Archival Research in Avant-Garde Film, and conducted her thesis research at La Cinémathèque française in Paris.

Beyond her scholarly work, Hunt has extensive experience in the art departments of film and television, where she worked as a prop designer, set builder, and art director. These roles sharpened her attention to material culture, ephemera, and preservation, concerns that continue to shape her tactile, site-responsive installations. Her practice is also informed by work in urban and rural sustainable farming, including the design of edible and native landscapes in Los Angeles and New York City. In northern New Mexico, she collaborated with the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo community on an heirloom garden and a weaving-based public installation developed with local youth and community members.

Hunt served as Program Facilitator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where she supported community-engaged initiatives within the museum’s public art studio division. She lives and works in New York City, where she continues to develop her moving-image and studio practice.