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), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY), the Brooklyn
Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY), Spencer Brownstone Gallery (NYC), Kavi
Gupta Gallery (Chicago), and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
(Lincoln, MA). Her work has been written about in BOMB Magazine, Whitewall,
Hyperallergic, Artnet, Sculpture Magazine, and Art in America. In 2011 she was
an artist in residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Space
Program based in Brooklyn, NY. She was awarded a fellowship in painting by the
New York Foundation for the Arts and in 2016 the Saint-Gaudens Memorial
Fellowship. Bell lives and works in New York, NY
Instagram:@Katies_bell
Website:katiebellstudio.com
