Katelyn Kopenhaver is an interdisciplinary artist and troublemaker. Originally from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Kopenhaver received her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 2016 and currently resides in Miami, Florida.
In 2021, she was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work and has been published nationally and internationally, including New York Magazine, Netflix, and The Brooklyn Rail. She has been a recurring guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts since 2019 and panel speaker at Pen + Brush and Plaxall Gallery in New York. In 2020 Kopenhaver was commissioned by Pen + Brush to produce a book compilation “During the Day But Mostly At Night,” of haunting text and visuals. Included 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.
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. Watchful of advertising, media, and the place where truth and lies circulate, she utilizes print-based media and her body to deliver commentary that raises questions and challenges our perception of reality and that of ourselves. A cerebral stir mixed with a collaborative vulnerability and brutal honesty is the vantage point she invites you to. Her projects are multidisciplinary but often take the form of printmaking, video, performance, photography, and public engagement with text as a core element.