Katelyn Kopenhaver (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Originally from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, she received her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2016. Kopenhaver currently resides in Miami, FL and is a studio resident at Bakehouse Art Complex. She uses print-based media and her body to stage confrontations with unavoidable truths that mount calls to action.

Kopenhaver was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work (2021) and the Miami Individual Artists Grant (2024). Her work has been featured in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Netflix documentaries, and The Brooklyn Rail, and will appear in Issue 18 of Der Greif, curated by Hank Willis Thomas, to be released in November at Paris Photo Fair. Select exhibitions include A Yellow Rose Project (Texas Woman’s University, 2025), Disquieting Spaces (Edge Zones, 2025), Unoriginal Genius (Laundromat, 2025), and her work will be presented this fall as part of the The Viewing Room at Piero Atchugarry Gallery (Miami, FL, 2025). She has been a recurring guest lecturer at SVA since 2019.

Her practice investigates suppressed realities lurking beneath everyday consciousness, examining the dissonance between what we are told and what we feel, what is visible and what remains hidden. Through printmaking, video, performance and guerrilla installations, she exposes the manipulation of information and the varying levels of predation that shape our perceptions of reality and self.

She uses her own body as both medium and message, situating herself within the critique rather than observing from a distance. Her performances function as studies or situations, inviting viewers to participate or respond in unexpected ways – transforming them from passive observers into active participants. Kopenhaver's interventions seek to lodge themselves beneath conscious thought, surfacing later as persistent, unavoidable truths we must confront, question and respond to.