Katia Porter//NetherEdge Art Studio

Katia Porter is an international artist with works in private collections in the UK as well as the USA. Katia moved to Connecticut in 2011 from Manchester in the United Kingdom where she studied fine art at the University of Bolton and Manchester College of Arts and Technology. 

UK born artist, Katia Porter maintains an active multidisciplinary practice in visual art and writing.  Her work is truly multi-mixed media incorporating found imagery and her own photography, painting, drawing, collage and text to explore themes of misinformation, injustice, violence, human rights, generational family secrecy, fable, folklore, metaphysics and the occult.

Porter lists a variety of contemporary female artists as influences including: Alexandra Grant, The Guerrilla Girls, Nan Goldin, Sophie Calle as well as historical artists, Hilma af Klint, Louise Bourgeois, Remedios Varos, & Leonora Carrington.

Instagram: NetherEdge Art Studio

Links: https://linktr.ee/KatiaPorter

Studio visits available by appointment: katiaporter@me.com

Upcoming Shows at SoMa

2024 (un)HOME*, September - October

Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 5.30pm - 8.00pm

2024 The Power Of Protest: a collaborative group project. November 2, 2024 - January 5, 2025.

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 2, 3.00pm - 6.00 pm

Awards

2018   Jeanne B. Krochalis Award

Wesleyan Writers Conference

Past Shows

2023    Imagining Worlds, SoMa, Deep River, CT

2023    Wandering Uterus VI, Hygienic Art, New London, CT

2012     Brief Monuments: Making and Unmaking History

The Orison Project, Essex, CT

2011    Excavating Utopia

Look 11 Photography Festival, Liverpool, UK

2009    Second Shift

Samuel Chen Art Gallery, Central Connecticut State University

Assignments

2008 - 2011   Whitworth Art Gallery

2009   Abandon Normal Devices Festival

Education

MA Liberal Studies (studio art and creative writing), Wesleyan University

BTEC Foundation in Art and Design

PG Certificate, Management Practice

PG Diploma, Film and TV Production

BA Honors History of Art, Design and Film

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