Bio

Katherine was born in Milwaukee, WI, and attended the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis/St. Paul for her BA in Indigenous American Studies. She studied under the mentorship of Anishinaabe Activist/ Educator Winona LaDuke and double minored in Women's and Gender Studies and Cultural Psychology.

She received her MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of Arts, where she studied Curatorial and Archival Studies on exchange at La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France. Following graduation in Los Angeles, Katherine worked in the Art Department on music videos, feature films, and television shows as a prop designer, fabricator, and set designer.

In 2023, Katherine was selected by The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for a Rauschenberg Emergency Grant. In 2020, Katherine was a recipient of both an Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts/ Fulcrum Fund Grant and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions within the United States and abroad.

Alongside art-making, Katherine has created numerous urban gardens in New York and Los Angeles for schools, businesses, and estates. She has also worked on rural organic farms across the United States for over 15 years. In 2018, she worked alongside Moving Arts Española, New Mexico, to create a public art weaving installation and heirloom seed garden on Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo lands.

Having taught Studio Art Workshops at the Detroit Institute of Arts, she is in northern New Mexico. Katherine received the Santa Fe Community Foundation Artist Grant in 2023 and is devoting her time solely to studio practice.