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

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

2024

Artnet: How Artist Katie Hector Achieves Her Spellbinding Portrait without Using a Drop of Paint

Art Spiel: Katie Hector & Ernesto Renda: on East & West Coast Exhibitions

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

Interview with Ninu Nina

Interview with Rex First

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: 10 Years of Innovative Thinking in Digital Art – 10 Years of peer to space Interview with co-founder, director, and head curator Tina Sauerlaender

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

Art Spiel: Americana Archetypes Frolic Centerstage in Rebecca Morgan’s Solo Show: Town and Country at Asya Geisberg Gallery

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

Arte Fuse: Perilous Bodies: Personhood as Seen Through the Eyes of Two International Curators at Ford Foundation Gallery

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