ABOUT
Katie Hector
email: katiehectorart@gmail.com
Instagram: @katiehector
Statement:
My portraits of friends, people I’ve met, and complete strangers are allegories of longing, intimacy, and grief in response to isolation and dissociation. Layering bleach and dye on canvas I build-up up and erase sections to create composite likenesses. Painting with bleach and dye instead of, let’s say acrylic or traditional mediums, allows me to have a direct conversation with the canvas itself. Within each painting, I am testing the limits of the fibers and the canvas’s ability to retain or let go of pigment. Thus the memory of the surface produces the final afterimage; an impression of personhood, an uncanny portrait.
Bio:
Katie Hector (b. 1992) in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, is an artist based near Los Angeles, California. Hector’s studio practice revolves around process-based paintings that layer dye and bleach to create portrait-likenesses that symbolize loss, grief, intimacy, and longing. She earned a BFA in painting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2014. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has garnered her recognition through awards, scholarships, and international residencies.
Education
2010 - 2014 BFA Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University
Solo & Two-Person Shows:
EGO RIP, Management, New York
SOMEBODY, the untitled void, Seoul
Ideology Duo, Le Mont Art Space, Taiwan
Cyborgs Never Die, Moosey, London
Allegories, The Cabin, Los Angeles
Dark Pulse, This Friday or Next Friday, New York
Trick Endings, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Pillow Talk, LA Beast, Los Angeles
Here’s To Us, Art House, CDMX
2023
FEMBOT, The Hole, New York
Strange Realities, Mission College, Los Angeles
Storage Wars, The Hole, Los Angeles
From Dusk Til Dusk, Wonzimer, Stockholm
Well Hot, Moosey, Dubai
Some Dogs, Four One Nine, San Fransisco
Fifty Reds in Their Minds, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville
Reminisce, Hollis Taggart, New York
Twentysomethings, Orlando Museums of Art, Florida
California Dreamin’, Lorin Gallery, Los Angeles
The Trial, Good Naked, Los Angeles
Tinted Love, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles
2022
On the Road to Basel, Lorin Gallery, Paris, France
PHYGITAL, G/ART/EN, Como, Itay
All the World Began with a Yes, The Lodge, Los Angeles
LA/LB 2, Long Beach
2021
La Forma del Cuerpo, Mexcio CIty, MX
2020
Seasonal Repression, Field Projects, Chelsea, NY
Playing with Scale, CCA Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Women in Painting, 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
2019
New Thick, The Royal, Brooklyn, NY
Consumption, 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
My Kingdom For Baked Alaska, The Meeting House, Troy, NY
Caffeine, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
AIR Gallery’s 13th Biennial, AIR Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Endless Editions Biennial: Optimism, Elizabeth Foundation for the Art, NY
small/MIGHTY, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Small Paintings(ish, BS Projects, Houston, TX
Come As You Are, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
Optimist Prime, New City Gallerie, Burlington, VT
2017
Night Call, Public Address Gallery, NY
Größ Frictions, Lage Egal, Berlin, DE
Vagabond Time Killers, The Wassaic Project, NY
Para-Verbal Vocab, Spring Break Art Show, NY
Nasty Women Exhibition, The Knockdown Center, NY
Art Fairs
KIAF, Seoul, forthcoming
NADA, Miami, 2023
CAN, Ibiza 2023
Fellowships and Residencies
Moosey Residency. 2023
Meeting House Residency, 2019
Arquetopia Triple International Academic Residency, 2019
PICTURE BERLIN Artist Residency, 2017
Solo(s) Project House Residency, 2016
Trestle Gallery Open Studio Residency, 2016
Selected Writing and Press
2023
Art Matters: Esp. #013 (LA Edition)
Art Alerts: Studio Tour
Whitewall: NADA Miami 2023 Zooms in on Fun
Interview: Girl in Gallery Podcast
LA Currents short film: The Big New
Katie Hector Takes Her Apocalyptic Portraits to London: Bricks Magazine
Artist Spotlight BOOOOOOOM!
Rising Stars Interview Voyage LA
Clear Eyes in a Shifting World Nicholas Cuevas Substack
2022
Feature blue keys magazine
2021
Maake Magazine: Matt Philips: An Indelible Touch
2020
Elliot Purse - A Man Ain’t a Goddamn Axe artist feature
Zebadiah Keneally - Toxicus Masculinum artist feature
Saskia Fleishman - It Feels Like Reality artist feature
Anna Pietrzak - Before Shadows artist feature
Arte Fuse: Interview with Daniel Lind-Ramos (preface)
Arte Fuse: Hive - Nancy Davidson and Lakshmi Ramgopal at KAM
2019
Art Spiel: New Thick at RSOAA
Art Spiel: When the Artist Speaks
Brklyner: Bushwick Open Studios: Cats, Wax, Bubbles & More
Arte Fuse: Opening Night Impressions of Origins at Signs and Symbols
Arte Fuse: Interview with Noah Becker
ANTE Magazine: Frieze Recap 2019
Two Coats of Paint: Emilia Olsen: Visions of Paint and Flesh
Art Spiel: Linger Still - Kaveri Raina Assembly Room
Arte Fuse: Sex Wax and Surfing An Interview with Artist Nicholas Cueva
Two Coats of Paint: Past, present, future: Lizbeth Mitty and Dana James
The Coastal Post: Puppies and Flowers at the Royal: A New Artist-Run Space Explores Lustful Luxury and Mutating Community in Williamsburg
ANTE Magazine: Contemporary Desire: Puppies and Flowers at the Royal Society of American Art
Art Business Journal: Women Artists Reflect on the Importance of Mentoring
Maake Mag: Seven Noteworthy Booths at SPRING/BREAK in NYC
Maake Mag: Interview with Amanda Martinez
2018
Art Spiel: Review for Ben Pederson, Some Stuff You Forgot About at Ortega y Gasset
Maake Mag: Review for Rose Nestler, Gymnasia at BRIC Project Room
Art Spiel: Exhibition Review for Plush Paint: please do not pet, caress, fondle
ANTE Magazine: Feminist Perspectives: Impressions from Pulse Art Fair During Miami Art Week 2018
ANTE Magazine: Seriously Playful the Hybrid Forms of Katie Hector