Katelyn Kopenhaver (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work moves between public intervention, performance, text, and lens-based practices. She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts (2016) and has been based in Miami, Florida since 2020, where she is a studio resident at Bakehouse Art Complex. She has been recognized with the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts (2021) and the Miami Individual Artists Grant (2024), and has been selected for exhibitions by curators including Barbara O'Brien (former Executive Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art) and Sharon Butler. Her work is held in the collections of The Bunker (Beth Rudin DeWoody), The Standard Hotel, School of Visual Arts Library, and private collections internationally. Current exhibitions include the Every Woman Biennial 2026 at Pen + Brush (New York, NY) and F*ck Art at the Museum of Sex (Miami, FL). Kopenhaver will be an artist-in-residence at SOMA Mexico City later this year.

Kopenhaver's practice is marked by a willingness to operate outside institutional boundaries. Her guerrilla works have entered public consciousness in unexpected ways — most notably a 2020 Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell bed sheet intervention that was photographed by the Associated Press and featured across ABC 20/20, The New York Times, NY Post, and Netflix. The project was also taken on by A Yellow Rose Project, an initiative that invited 100 women across the country to respond to the centennial ratification of the 19th Amendment. The exhibition has traveled to venues including the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), Boston University, and Texas Woman's University (Denton, TX), and an accompanying book — in which Kopenhaver's work appears — was published earlier this year. In 2022, she performed WILL YOU BUY ME during Miami Art Week, offering herself for sale as a pointed intervention into the art market at its most concentrated.

Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Der Greif Issue 18 juried by Hank Willis Thomas, and METAL Magazine, among others. She is also included in Literally Everyone's Invited, a photography publication edited by Gesi Schilling and Sarah Trudgeon, published by O, Miami this year. Her engagement with community and publishing extends her practice beyond the studio — she manages operations at EXILE Projects, an independent nonprofit art book publisher, and produces the Miami Zine Fair, an annual event connecting zine makers and small press artists across Florida.

Currently, Kopenhaver is developing What Is Behind a Smile?, a new work pairing her own image with those of polarizing public women — Marie Antoinette, Ghislaine Maxwell, Hillary Clinton, and others — examining how collective judgment reduces complex figures to fixed images, and how the smile becomes a site of automatic trust.