Kate Kosek is a New York based visual artist whose colorful textile sculptures satirize the hierarchies within art, craft, and design. As bodily autonomy is continuously threatened, her work is a playful manipulation of form and language pertaining to her perspective as a woman. She is particularly interested in gendered stereotypes and how they relate to the differences between labor and leisure, and utilitarian and decorative objects. Through her art, she imagines a world where objects have their own agency and opposing forces can co-exist and transform one another.
Kate exhibits her work internationally and has been commissioned for numerous mural and design projects. She is included in publications by Chronicle Books (US), Laurence King (UK), and Atem Books (Spain). Her 2014 clothing collaboration with Gorman was featured in Vogue Australia. Kate received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY New Paltz in 2009 and her MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Textiles from Georgia State University in 2023. She attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center (VT) and the Burren College of Art (Ireland), and is a current studio resident at Collar Works and a digital fabrication resident at Tech Valley Center of Gravity, both in Troy, NY.
