BIO

Katherine Hunt is a multimedia visual artist whose work integrates scholarly inquiry in Social/Cultural Psychology and Experimental Ethnography with aleatoric methodologies across painting, moving image, fiber, and installation. Her practice explores how cultural forces subtly shape perception, employing research-driven visual forms that prioritize process over product. Rather than presenting conclusive statements and delivering fixed meaning, her work aims to formulate questions and disrupt ingrained perceptual patterns via non-linguistic, non-narrative visual and tactile forms, destabilizing habitual patterns of seeing and interpreting. The viewer's engagement is crucial, positioning them as active participants whose interpretive contributions are indispensable to the work's conceptual framework.

Hunt's work has been recognized with grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. It has also been featured in solo, two-person, and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She is represented by Ki Smith Gallery in New York City.

Hunt holds a BA in Cultural and Social Psychology and Indigenous American Studies, with a minor in Gender Studies, from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul. During her undergraduate Indigenous Studies, she was personally mentored by Anishinaabe educator, activist, and Green Party VP candidate Winona LaDuke. She later earned an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, specializing in Curatorial Criticism and Archival Research in Avant-Garde Film while completing thesis research abroad at La Cinémathèque française in Paris.

Her professional experience as a prop designer, set builder, and art director in the LA film and TV industry honed her skills in working with archival artifacts and ephemera. Her extensive history of urban and rural farming and spearheading the creation of site-specific public art installations informs her interest in working with various tactile materials.

After completing a year-long appointment at the Detroit Institute of Arts as a Public Art Division Program Facilitator and teaching courses in site-specific installations, Hunt currently focuses on her studio and moving image art practice, dividing her time between New York City and rural northern New Mexico.