Kate Barbee (b. 1994, Dallas, TX) received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin, TX in 2017. 

Barbee has recently exhibited at Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY), Kohn Gallery, (Los Angeles, CA), Albertz Benda (New York, NY), San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (San Luis Obispo, CA), UQBAR Gallery (Berlin, Germany), Saatchi Gallery (London, U.K.), The Golden Gate Parlor (Los Angeles, CA), Royal Co-op (Austin, TX), Visual Arts Center (Austin, TX), Co-Lab Gallery (Austin, TX), Activation Gallery (Austin, TX), and Dollhouse Space (Chicago, IL). Barbee was an Artist-in-Residence at the Bed Stuy Art (Brooklyn, NY) in 2021. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Hill Art Foundation (New York, NY), Andrew Xue Collection (Singapore), and Danjuma Collection (London, UK).

Her work has been reviewed in Arte Fuse, Mercer Contemporary, ODDA Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, Artnet, KCRW, Flaunt, Metal Magazine, Art and Cake, Art of Choice, L’Officiel Art, Harper’s Bazaar, VoyageLA, amongst others. She lives and works in New York, NY. 

Dr Kathy Battista is a writer, educator, and a curator of exhibitions in museums, galleries, and non-profits. Her research is primarily focused on cross generational feminist art, in particular performance and body-oriented practice. Most recently she has curated People of the Otherworld at Albertz Benda in New York, Everything Has Its Place at Sevil Dolmaci Gallery, Istanbul, you pinned me down like a butterfly on a wall, Marie Jacotey for Ballon Rouge at Pablo’s Birthday, The Art of Fashion at Fountain House Gallery New York, Escape Attempts at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, and E.A.T.: Experiments in Art and Technology at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria. She has authored numerous books, including: New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice (2019) and Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London (2012). Battista also co-edited (with Bryan Faller) a book on artist estates and foundations, Creative Legacies: Critical Issues in Artist Estates, for Lund Humphries (2020). 

Battista has over twenty years of leadership positions in the art world. In 1997 she founded the Interaction program at Artangel, a renowned public art agency in London. She also founded the MA Program in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, which she helmed for 11 years. She has also served as Editor in Chief of the Benezit Dictionary of Art for Oxford University Press and is on several international non-profit boards and committees. She is currently as an Ensemble member of the New School of the Anthropocene.