Katherine Behar | 210 Rivington St #19 | NYC NY 10002 | kb [AT] katherinebehar [DOT] com

BIOGRAPHY

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. She holds an MA in Media Ecology from the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University, and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Now at the Department of Art at Hunter College, she is pursuing an MFA in Combined Media. Bringing together video, durational performance, sculptural costumery, and installation, Katherine's artworks aim to reinterpret the daily interactions and relationships we build with and through everyday materials and technologies.

Katherine has presented internationally at venues such as De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Digital Live Art Festival in Leeds, UK, MoKS in Mooste, Estonia, Galata Perform in Istanbul, Turkey, The National Museum of Art in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, Canada, and The Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy, as well as nationally at venues including CANADA and PSi in New York, Galapagos, Monkey Town, CONFLUX and the D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn, Versionfest, Columbia College, Alogon Gallery, Tough Gallery, and Betty Rymer Gallery in Chicago, DiverseWorks in Houston, the Cleveland Performance Art Festival+Archives, and the Grand Rapids Urban Institute for Contemporary Art.

Katherine has taught on faculty in the Film and Media Studies Department at Hunter College and in the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a member of the performance art group DISORIENTALISM, and was a founding artist and organizer at The Spareroom, a time arts cooperative in Chicago. Her work has been supported by Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Finalist Awards in 2002 and 2004, the Featured Performance Award from the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, and funding from the Department of Culture and Communication and the Steinhardt School of Education Graduate Student Organization at New York University.