Kate Harding
MFA, SVA Art Practice
BFA, Otis College
AAS, SUNY FIT
Kate Harding is an interdisciplinary artist based between Los Angeles and New York City in the USA and is regularly in residence on Isle of Eigg, Scotland.
Harding’s fragmented and decentralized work subverts historic conventions of depicting nature as comprehensible “at-a-glance.” Becoming immersed within the voices and histories of site, land and the local, Harding invites consideration of embodied communication and more-than-human ways of knowing and precarity, creating and facilitating spaces for conversation, meeting and fortification. Solo and two-person exhibitions include 3A Gallery, SARDINE, and Grace Space (NYC); Track 16 (Los Angeles); and East Central College (Missouri).
Her work has been reviewed in Mapping Meaning Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, Artscene, ArtFile, Notes on Looking, FiberArts Magazine and others. Harding’s writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Tool Book Project and Café Dan Graham Poetry Slam. She teaches at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and Pratt Institute, Parsons/The New School, and School of Visual arts in New York City.
“My art practice is a kind of shared dreaming of site. Any halfway recognizable imagery, first comes out as a gesture of texture, that then meanders and finds loose footing or flying, forms a sideways corner of the eye glance or feeling of something familiar but isn’t something you can put your finger on, which is in large part the point.”
