Katie Kotler

Katie Kotler
Email: katie.kotler@gmail.com
Web: katie-kotler.com | chanteclairstudio.com
Born: Montreal, QC, Canada | Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Katie Kotler is a Canadian artist and musician. Working in animation, installation and print, her work integrates abstraction and color.

Education
2024
School of Visual Arts, Continuing Education, Textile Printing Course
School of Visual Arts, Continuing Education, Soft Sculpture Course
Textile Arts Centre, Marbling Workshop
Catskills Weaving School, Natural Dyeing Workshop

2016
OCAD University, Master of Fine Arts

2008
Concordia University, Bachelor of Arts

Selected Artist & Curatorial Exhibitions
2025
Dream Junk & Cosmic Dust, Paradice Palase x Gloria’s Project Space Spring Exhibitions (also Jury Panelist & Co-Curator), New York, NY

2024
Taking Care: Brain Injury Stories, Workers Art and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
Rhapsody Tentacular, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY

2023
Tangential Splinters, Ortega Y Gasset, New York, NY
Nordic, Collaboration with Joshua Drayzen, New York, NY

2022
Venetian Blinds, Long Winter festival, Toronto, ON
Smooth Ride, Commission, Toronto, ON
At A Crossroads, Van der Plaas, New York, NY
Electric Circus, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON

2021
Dundas Night Lights, Public Installation, Victory Social Club, Toronto, ON
BigArtTO, Public Installation, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON
Contemporary Practices, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY

2020
Lorem Ipsum Part Two, Virtual Group Exhibition, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON
Telegenic, Artist Project/Trinity Square Video, Art Fair, Toronto, ON

2019
Print Show, Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
Permanent Fixtures, NES Gallery, Skagastrond, Iceland

2018
Refuge/Escape, Roundtable Residency, Toronto, ON

2017
Curator, Installation as a Subversive Art, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
Sunnyside Up Youth Council Party, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Curator, Diamonds + Thunderbolts, Toronto Animated Image Society, Toronto, ON

2016
3D IRL, Long Winter Festival, Toronto, ON
Escape to Camp CMYK, OCAD Student Gallery, Toronto, ON
Prescience, Luminato Festival, Toronto, ON
GradEx, OCAD, Toronto, ON
Digital Futures Graduation Show, OCAD, Toronto, ON

2015
Milky Way Art & Zine Launch Party, Milk Glass Gallery, Toronto, ON
Despondence, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
Spatial Reasoning, Solo Exhibition, OCAD Experimental Media Space, Toronto, ON

2014
Animation Tests: Experiments & Installation, Solo Exhibition, OCAD Experimental Media Space, Toronto, ON
Toronto Digital Projects, Online Group Exhibition, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON

Selected Film & Animation Screenings
2023
Flourish Festival, Installation, Fredericton, NB
Toronto Queer Film Festival, Toronto, ON
Trans Film Fest, Stockholm, Sweden

2020
Long Winter Festival, Live Visuals, Toronto, ON

2019
Winter Jams, Screening, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
New Chance Album Release Party, Live Visuals, Toronto, ON
Venus Fest, Live Visuals, Toronto, ON
Murmurs Fall & Spring Sound Residency Fundraisers, Kule, Berlin, Germany
Betonest Residency Opening Party, Screening, Berlin, Germany
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia

2018
Calvin Love Concert, Live Visuals, Monarch Tavern, Toronto, ON
BFI Flare, London, UK
TIFF Short Cuts, Screening, Toronto, ON
Durban Queer Film Festival, Durban, South Africa

Art Fairs, Auctions & Fundraisers
2025
Renegade Craft Fair, New York, NY

2024
Renegade Craft Fair, Brooklyn, NY
No Normal Market, New York, NY
Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, New York, NY

2022
Zine Dream, Toronto, ON
Peripheral Review Auction and Fundraiser, Toronto, ON
C Magazine Auction, Toronto, ON

2020
Xpace Holiday Zine Fair, Toronto, ON

2019
Zine Dream, Toronto, ON
Peripheral Review Fundraiser, Toronto, ON

2018
Editions Art Book Fair, Toronto, ON

2017
Xpace Fundraiser, Toronto, ON
Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, New York, NY

2015
Xpace Fundraiser, Toronto, ON

Residencies & Partnerships
2023
Canopy Mentorship Intensive, NYC Crit Club, New York, NY

2021
Artist-in-Residence, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2019
Artist-in-Residence, NES Residency, Iceland
Artist-in-Residence, Betonest Residency, Germany

2018
Artist-in-Residence, Roundtable Residency, Toronto, ON

2017
A/V Artist-in-Residence, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON

2016
Digital Artist-in-Residence, Studio Beat, Toronto/New York

Grants, Scholarships & Competitions
2023
Honorable Mention, Abstracts Competition, Light, Space & Time Online Gallery

2022
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant – $5,700

2020
Canada Council for the Arts Digital Originals Grant – $5,000

2019
Equitable Bank Emerging Digital Artist Award – $5,000

2018
Toronto Arts Council Media Production Grant – $5,000

2012–2015
OCAD Graduate Scholarships – $5,000

Film & Audio Work
2022–2024
Conversations That Carry Us podcast, audio editing, hosted by Geneviève Wallen

2022
New Beginnings, Raindrops Unearthed, The Anita Mann Case – Art direction & music composition

2021
For the Birds, set & costume designer, music video for Dinah Thorpe

2019
The Cut, music composer & set designer, directed by Katie Meyer

2017
Charlie, music composer, directed by Lesley Johnson
OCAD Digital Futures Showreel, composer, directed by Umar Amanullah

2016
Have You Seen Your Eyes Lately?, set designer, Bile Sister video, dir. Laura Dobson

2014
Archive Burning, music composer, directed by Katie Meyer

2010
Modasuite Advertisement, music composer, Montreal

Artist Talks
2022
“A Light Footprint in the Cosmos,” Simon Fraser University
“Gallery Crawl,” Ignite Gallery

2021
“Brain Injury Panel,” Canada Council for the Arts

2020
“Katie Kotler (Opinion+Shift),” Artcite Inc.

2019
“Female Abstract Expressionist Painters,” Peripheral Review

2017
“Installation as a Subversive Art,” Xpace Cultural Centre
“Diamonds + Thunderbolts,” Trinity Square Video
“Escape to Camp CMYK,” OCAD Student Gallery

Administration, Board & Volunteer Experience
2021–Present
Editorial Committee, Peripheral Review, Vancouver/Toronto

2014–2018
Programming Coordinator & Assistant, Xpace Cultural Centre

2015–2017
Director, Toronto Animated Image Society

2013
Volunteer, Art Metropole

Memberships
Paradice Palase, New York
AIGA Professional Association for Design
Female Design Council

Selected prints and cassettes sold at:
Toutoune Gallery, Toronto, CA
Possible Worlds, Ottawa, CA
Likely General (Previously sold), Toronto, CA