BIO

Katherine Hunt is a New York–based multimedia visual artist whose work draws on Social and Cultural Psychology, Experimental Ethnography, and aleatoric (chance-based) methodologies. Working across painting, moving image, fiber, and installation, she prioritizes process over product and develops non-linguistic, non-narrative visual and tactile forms that foreground how cultural forces shape perception and internalization. Her practice explores the systems through which culture is produced, valued, and interpreted, questioning whose authority defines cultural 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. Ki Smith Gallery in New York City currently holds a collection of her work.

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, specializing 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 art department experience in film and television, working 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. She is also an urban and rural sustainable farmer, having worked on farms across the United States and created edible and native landscapes in Los Angeles and New York City. Her collaboration with the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo community in northern New Mexico brought together these interests in cultural, ecological, and artistic material preservation through the creation of an heirloom garden and weaving-focused public installation developed with local youth and community members.

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