Kate Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Rhode Island. She grew up on the shores of Massachusetts and enjoys camping, hiking, skiing, and boating throughout New England and the West. She travels extensively throughout Europe, America, and the Caribbean. She meditates and practices yoga regularly. Her way of life imbues her with a love for exploration, focus, and patience, all of which are foundations of Kate’s artistic process.

Kate completed her schooling in Studio Art & Education at Skidmore College in New York, and later graduated from the CE Graphic Design program at Rhode Island School of Design. Her experiences as an elementary school teacher and later as a graphic designer running her own firm, taught her how to engender spaces with wonder and imagination. Kate’s visual and emotional communication is evident in her work.

As a professional artist, Kate creates visual statements that embody luminosity, movement, and balance through the relationships of shape, line, and color. She asks the viewer to step closer and be enveloped into the details of the worlds she creates. Her unique visual sense is evident in her delicate, yet brave use of materials.

Kate works in a variety of mediums. She is best known for her limited edition and one-of-a-kind commissioned large scale photographic works that are dye-sublimated onto aluminum panels, in which she hides a tiny positive word, or love note, for the viewer to find. Kate also creates abstract metallic wash paintings on paper or acrylic panels with lighting incorporated within key pieces. She paints on canvas and panels using oil, acrylics, pastels, and graphite. These range from completely abstract to the figurative. Kate also creates ethereal installation works using paper and metal. Her latest work of this nature is to honor Earth Day 2020, the 50th anniversary.

Kate’s creativity as an artist has garnered her multiple articles, awards, and gallery representation at two Rhode Island galleries where she exhibits regularly. She was selected for a solo exhibition by Rhode Island State Council on the Arts in the Block Island Airport Gallery for the Summer of 2018. Kate was commissioned to design a permanent twelve-foot installation at New England Institute of Technology. Kate has given numerous artist talks, has been a repeat celebrity artist for Providence’s Gallery Night Tours. She maintains her studio in Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Kate enjoys working on art installations by incorporating the essence of a project into her visual solutions and creating spaces in which viewers can be curious and wonder.

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