About Me
Katie Kotler completed her MFA at OCAD University in digital arts. She is currently based in New York. Her studio practice is interdisciplinary, exploring how the physicality of animation can be translated into installation art, print and music. Kotler is also interested in how lineages of art histories meld into one another, often in previously unnoticed ways. She creates immersive and self-reflexive atmospheres that use as lo-fi materials as possible.
Kotler’s work has been featured on the CBC, Hyperallergic, Rhizome and Canadian Art. She is the recipient of grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council of the Arts. Shown internationally, Kotler’s work has appeared at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (New York), Ortega Y Gasset Projects (New York) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto). Her music has been featured in films that have screened at the Toronto Queer Film Festival, Trans Film Fest (Stockholm), Melbourne Queer Film Festival, British Film Institute, TIFF and the Durban Queer Film Festival. Kotler has projected visuals for musicians such as the Vaselines as part of Toronto’s Venus Fest.
Kotler recently edited and provided music for “The Conversations that Carry Us”, a podcast hosted by award-winning curator Geneviève Wallen. She has participated in the C Magazine auction and in residencies with the NYC Crit Club, School of Visual Arts, The Drake Hotel (Toronto) and Studio Beat (New York).
In 2019, Kotler was the artist partner for the Equitable Bank Emerging Digital Artist Award. She has presented her work at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), hosted a brain injury panel and given artist talks for artist-run centres such as Artcite Inc. (Windsor).
Kotler previously worked as a programming coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre (Toronto) and served as the director at the Toronto Animated Image Society.
Selected prints and tapes are sold at Toutoune Gallery in Toronto and Possible Worlds in Ottawa.