Katie Bell
Biography
Katie Bell is an artist originally from Rockford, Illinois (b. 1985). She received her BA from Knox College (Galesburg, IL) in 2008 where she studied fine art and race and gender studies. She graduated in 2011 from the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) with an MFA in Painting. Bell has shown her work at a variety of venues including Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), Locust Projects (Miami, FL), Hallways Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), Kavi Gupta (Chicago, IL), Knockdown Center (Queens, NY), and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA). Her work has been written about in BOMB Magazine, Whitewaller, Hyperallergic, Artnet, Sculpture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, and Paper Magazine. She was an artist in residence at both the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Space Program in 2011 and the Dieu Donné Workspace in 2023 in Brooklyn, NY. In 2015, she was awarded a fellowship in painting by the New York Foundation for the Arts and in 2016, by the Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship. She also received the Brooklyn Arts Council Grant in 2019. Bell lives and works in New York, NY.
