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