Katelyn Kopenhaver
Katelyn Kopenhaver is an interdisciplinary artist and troublemaker. Originally from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, she received her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2016 and currently resides in Miami, Florida. Kopenhaver attempts to reveal and communicate the contradictions, denial, and fragmentation within the self and culture. She weaves the overlooked realities that hover just below our day-to-day consciousness, the occurrences we knowingly disavow or are conditioned to suppress. In 2021 she was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work and has been published nationally and internationally in media outlets that include: New York Magazine, METAL Magazine, Wall Street Journal and The Brooklyn Rail. She is a recurring guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts since 2019 and has participated in panel discussions at Pen + Brush and Plaxall Gallery in New York. In 2020 Kopenhaver was commissioned “During the Day But Mostly At Night,” a book compilation of haunting text and visuals. Touched on in the book, her performance/photography project revolving around Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell landed her in New York Times, Netflix, Boston University, and Colorado Photographic Arts Center, among others. Kopenhavers projects are multidisciplinary but often take the form of printmaking, video, performance, photography, and public engagement with text as a core element.
