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 and currently resides in Miami, FL. Kopenhaver utilizes print-based media and her body to deliver commentary that raises questions and challenges our perception of reality and that of ourselves. Select group exhibitions include Young, Fresh, Different at Zilberman Gallery, Miami, FL (2024), Women Now at AHA Fine Art, New York, NY (2024), and Disquieting Spaces at Edge Zones, Miami, FL (2025). In 2021, she was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work and has been published nationally and internationally in media outlets including New York Magazine, The New York Times, Netflix, and The Brooklyn Rail. She has been a recurring guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts since 2019.
Kopenhaver’s intellectual interests in truth, culture, and communication embolden and drive her practice. 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.
