Katie Kotler
katie.kotler@gmail.com | www.katiekotler.com |
(416) 834-0235 b. 1984 Montreal, QC Lives and works in Toronto/New York
Katie Kotler is an artist and musician. Working in animation, installation and print, her work integrates abstraction and color.
Education
OCAD University, Master of Fine Arts, Toronto, 2016
Concordia University, Bachelor of Arts, Montreal, 2008
Selected Artist & Curatorial Exhibitions
2024 Rhapsody Tentacular, Group Exhibition, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York
2023 Tangential Splinters, Group Exhibition, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, New York
Intuitive Ornament, Installation, Flourish Music Festival, Fredericton, New Brunswick
2022 Venetian Blinds, Group Exhibition, Long Winter Festival, Toronto
Smooth Ride, Private Commission, Toronto
At a Crossroads, Group Exhibition, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York
Electric Circus, Group Exhibition, Ignite Gallery, Toronto
2021 Dundas Night Lights, Public Group Exhibition, Victory Social Club, Toronto
BigArtTo, Public installation, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto
Contemporary Practices, Group Exhibition, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York
2020 Lorem Ipsum Part Two, Group Exhibition, Ignite Gallery, Toronto
Telegenic, Artist Project/Trinity Square Video, Art Fair, Toronto
2019 Print Show, Group Exhibition, Aird Gallery, Toronto
Permanent Fixtures, Group Exhibition, NES Gallery, Skagästrond, Iceland
2018 Refuge/Escape, Group Exhibition, Roundtable Residency, Toronto
2017 Installation as a Subversive Art, Curator of Exhibition, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
Sunnyside Up Youth Council Party, Solo Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Diamonds + Thunderbolts, Curator of Exhibition, Toronto Animation Image Society, Toronto
2016 3D IRL, Group Exhibition, Long Winter Festival, Toronto
Escape to Camp CMYK, Group Exhibition, OCAD Student Gallery, Toronto
Prescience, Group Exhibition, Luminato Festival, Toronto
GradEx, Group Exhibition, OCAD, Toronto
Digital Futures Graduation Show, Group Exhibition, OCAD, Toronto
2015 Milky Way Art & Zine Launch Party, Group Exhibition, Milk Glass Gallery, Toronto
Despondence, Group Exhibition, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
Spatial Reasoning, Solo Exhibition, OCAD Experimental Media Space, Toronto
2014 Animation Tests: Experiments & Installation, Solo Exhibition, OCAD Experimental Media Space, Toronto
Toronto Digital Projects, Online Group Exhibition, Angell Gallery, Toronto
Screenings & Live Visuals
2023 Toronto Queer Film Festival, Screening, Toronto
Queer Film Festival, Screening, Stockholm
2020 Long Winter Festival, Live Visuals, Toronto
2019 Winter Jams Screening, Screening, Trinity Square Video, Toronto
New Chance album release party, Live Visuals, Toronto
Venus Fest, Live Visuals, Toronto
Murmurs Fall Sound Residency Fundraiser, Live Visuals, Kule, Berlin
Murmurs Spring Sound Residency Fundraiser, Live Visuals, Kule, Berlin
Betonest Residency Opening Party, Screening, Berlin
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Screening, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Calvin Love concert, Live Visuals, Monarch Tavern,Toronto
BFI Flare, Screening, London, United Kingdom
Share Her Journey Shorts Programme - TIFF Short Cuts Series, Screening, Toronto
Durban Queer Film Festival, Screening, Durban, South Africa
2017 Inside Out Film Festival, Screening, Toronto, Canada
What is Left? What is Right?, Screening, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2016 Pleasure Dome’s New Toronto Works Tour, Big Mama’s Cinematheque, Philadelphia
2015 Autumn Open, Screening, Trinity Square Video, Toronto
Pleasure Dome’s New Toronto Works, Screening, Geary Lane, Toronto
DPXA Year-End Show, Screening, Handlebar, Toronto
2014 Augmented Cinema Film Festival, Screening, The Royal Cinema, Toronto
2013 Arboretum Music Festival, Screening, Ottawa
Film & Audio Work
2022-Present Conversations that Carry Us, audio editor, podcast hosted by Genevieve Wallen, winner of the Canada Council for the Arts Joan Yvonne
Lowndes Award
2021 For the Birds, set and costume designer, music video for Dinah Thorpe, directed by Gabrielle Zilkha, Toronto
2019 The Cut, music composer and set designer, directed by Katie Meyer, Toronto
2017 Charlie, music composer, directed by Lesley Johnson, Toronto
OCAD Digital Futures Graduate Showreel, music composer, directed by Umar Amanullah, Toronto
2016 Have You Seen Your Eyes Lately?, set designer, music video for Bile Sister, directed by Laura Dobson, Toronto
OCAD Digital Futures Graduate Showreel, music composer, directed by Umar Amanullah, Toronto
2014 Archive Burning, music composer, directed by Katie Meyer, Toronto
2011 Artsync’s The Graffiti Question Documentary, music composer, directed by Heather White, Toronto
2010 Modasuite advertisement, music composer, Montreal
Art Fairs, Auctions & Fundraisers
2022 Zine Dream, Toronto
Peripheral Review Auction and Fundraiser, Toronto
C Magazine Auction, Toronto
2020 Xpace Holiday Zine Fair, Toronto
2019 Zine Dream, Toronto
Peripheral Review Karaoke Party & Raffle Fundraiser
2018 Editions Art Book Fair, Toronto
2017 Xpace Cultural Centre Fundraiser, Group Exhibition, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, New York
2016 Xpace Cultural Centre Fundraiser, Group Exhibition, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
2015 Xpace Cultural Centre Fundraiser, Group Exhibition, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
Residencies & Partnerships
2023 Participating Artist, Canopy Mentorship Intensive, NYC Crit Club, New York
2021 Artist-in-Residence, School of Visual Arts, New York
2019 Artist Partner, Equitable Bank Emerging Digital Artist Award, Toronto- $5000
Artist-in-Residence, NES Residency, Iceland
Artist-in-Residence, Betonest Residency, Germany
2018 Artist-in-Residence, Roundtable Residency, Toronto
2017 A/V Artist-in Residence, The Drake Hotel, Toronto
2016 Digital Artist-in Residence, Studio Beat, Toronto/New York
Grants, Scholarships & Competitions
2023 Honorable Mention, Abstracts Competition, Light, Space & Time Online Art Gallery
2022 Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts Arts Across Canada Travel Grant- $5700
2020 Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts Digital Originals Grant- $5000
2019 Artist Partner, Equitable Bank Emerging Digital Artist Award, Toronto- $5000
2018 Recipient, Toronto Arts Council Media Production Grant- $5000
2012-2015 Recipient, OCAD Graduate Scholarships- $5000
Artist Talks
2022 “A Light Footprint in the Cosmos”, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
“Gallery Crawl”, Ignite Gallery, Toronto
2021 “Brain Injury Panel”, Canada Council of the Arts, Toronto
2020 “Katie Kotler (Opinion+Shift)”. Artcite Inc., Windsor/Toronto
2019 “Sunday Summer Reading Series”. Peripheral Review, Toronto
2017 “Installation as a Subversive Art”. Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
“Diamonds + Thunderbolts”. Trinity Square Video, Toronto
“Escape to Camp CMYK”. OCAD Student Gallery, Toronto
Press
ICE Gallery: “Katie Kotler Interview”, 2021.
Kunstmatrix: “Hammock Life”, 2020.
Ignite Gallery: “BTS with Katie Kotler”, 2020.
Ingrid Erickson: “ARTIST to ARTIST: An Interview with Katie Kotler, Toronto”, 2020.
CBC: “In the Newsletter: So much 2010s Content”, 2019.
CBC’s The Exhibitionists: “Katie Kotler: Artist-in-Residence”, 2019.
Truluv Media: “Chanteclair: Full Moon”, 2019.
NES: “Artist in Residence- Katie Kotler”, 2019.
Emerging Digital Artists Award: “Katie Kotler: Featured Artist”, 2019.
BlogTo: “Nite Comfort with Chanteclair and Hymns57”, 2018.
Now: “Myseum Intersections spotlights identity, community and gentrification”, 2018.
BlogTo: “DRAKE AV Programme Launch Video Art Party”, 2017.
Canadian Art: “School Hop 2017”, 2017.
BlogTo: “Escape to Camp CMYK Reception”, 2016.
CBC: “Luminato Festival Adds Energy to Old Hearn Generating Station”, 2016.
Xpace Cultural Centre Exhibition Essay & Annual Exhibition Catalog, “Despondence”, vol. 6, 2015.
Silent Shout Music Blog, “Top 100 Songs of 2013: 100-76” (Number 84), 2013.
Silent Shout Music Blog, “Top 30 Albums of 2013: 30-16”, (Number 19), Digits, 2013.
Silent Shout Music Blog, Farragoes: “MP3: Chanteclair- I Know Synthsation”, 2013.
Bluestockings Magazine, “Featured Artist: Katie Kotler”, 2013.
Administration, Board & Volunteer Experience
2021-Present Editorial Committee, Peripheral Review, Vancouver/Toronto
2014-2018 Programming Coordinator & Assistant, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
2015-2017 Director, Toronto Animated Image Society
2013 Art Metropole, Volunteer, Toronto
Selected Prints and Tapes sold at:
Toutoune Gallery, Toronto
Possible Worlds, Ottawa