Katie performing Which rose with each breath they exhaled as part of Not Sent Letters & Guests on 17 November 2018, at Dynamo Arts Association (photo: Alisha Weng)
About
Katie Belcher is an artist, curator, and cultural worker of white European and UK settler ancestry, based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Katie was born on unceded Algonquin territory outside of Ottawa, Ontario and prior to moving west, was rooted for fourteen years in Nova Scotia, on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. She is grateful for the opportunity to have lived and worked in these places.
In her artistic practice, Katie makes monumental drawings that act as scores, translations, and rehearsals of remembered gestures. Her drawings have been exhibited at artist-run centres in Canada and Northern Ireland, and she has participated in residencies in both Canada and Europe, most notably Canada Council’s former studio at the Cité internationale des arts (Paris, 2012). She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Organizationally, formerly as Director/Curator of Access Gallery (2017-2023), as Eyelevel’s Artistic Director (2013-17), and through her work with Flotilla (2017), she has aimed to challenge modes of presentation, making space for care, risk, and failure in artistic practice.
