Kate Harding

Class of 2014

Kate Harding is an artist living and working between Los Angeles, New York City and rural Missouri. Harding examines the specificity of site and the local to explore concepts of landscape, perception and inter-subjectivity. Seeing her practice as a continuation of purposeful ramblings in the woods that began in early childhood, she undertakes engagement with site as a resonant field and collaborator. Pre-dawn tree-climbing with mules as observers, walking into the Salton Sea while reassured by pelicans - actions wherein her body becomes a tool of measure and site of projection are recorded and mined for information, then shaped into discreet objects (paintings, diagrams, drawings, projections on/through varied surfaces) and environments.

Interdisciplinary in material and approach, Harding’s background in garment design and construction often provides a metaphoric structure to her work, as does science, history, critical philosophy, folklore and the colloquial phrase. Harding received an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, holds a BFA from Otis College (Los Angeles, CA), and an AAS from Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, NY).  Exhibitions and screenings have included The New School, Vanity Projects, MoMA, Electronic Arts Intermix, The Chelsea Hotel New York, NY; Grace Exhibition Space, SARDINE, Glasshouse, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY; Rosamund Felson, Echo Park Film Center, Edward Cella, Track 16, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; East Central College, Union, MO. Her writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail. She regularly engages in collaborative and curatorial projects, and hosts Bicoastal Carpool, a weekly internet radio show airing on WPIR Pratt Radio.