Kate Hooray Osmond

Kate Hooray Osmond is an American interdisciplinary artist based in Charleston, SC, whose work explores visual experience and truth. Kate received her MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art. She exhibits nationally and her first solo museum show at the Franklin Burroughs/Simeon Chapin Art Museum and curated her first exhibition, Prototype for a Landscape, at the City Gallery. Kate prefers to work on several series simultaneously; her paintings a reflection of her social practice and installation projects.

She has been named the State Fellow for South Carolina and her paintings have been included in the Biennial by the Center for Contemporary Art of South Carolina, The Loveland Museum, the LaGrange Southeast Regional, and as a finalist for the CCA Prize.

Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Art and Cake LA, Charleston Magazine, Introspective Magazine, Vellum, and others. She is represented in galleries throughout the Southeast.

Currently, she has work in group exhibitions in NYC, Atlanta, and at the Loveland Museum. She will attend the Cobertizo Artist Residency in Mexico this fall.

Artist Statement: 

I see a world where definitions and foundations are increasingly dissolute. A world of complete energy: change, abundance, sorrow, creation and destruction. I am embracing everything in order to see the complete balance of existence and to learn peace in a climate when nothing lasts.

Often, I find the inspiration for my work from an elevated height: photographing from inside a shipping crane, flying in a helicopter, rappelling from a building. . . I need the experience of height and distance to play with the visual distortion of time and speed. And I need to see it for myself.