Katherine Clarke Langlands is a visual and conceptual artist whose work is shaped by the natural world and the interplay between the abstract and the tangible. She is artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November 2025. She would use this residency to explore her evolving relationship to performance, which is new medium for her, within her art.
Katherine is a visual and conceptual artist whose earth-inspired practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture, installation, and activation. Each work forms part of a continuous exploration of color, form, and space. Deeply shaped by the natural world, her practice investigates themes of perception, nature, and the intersection of the physical and conceptual realms—revealing poetics informed by both landscape and lived experience.
Katherine grew up in Vermont and studied Studio Art, Sociology, and Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Vermont. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the owner of Darkside Block Island, represented by Soapbox Arts in Burlington, Vermont, and currently serves as a Regional Studio Resident at the Vermont Studio Center. She also pursues ongoing study through the New Art School Modality in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth in New York.
Her work has been exhibited across the United States in solo and group exhibitions, including Minėmå Gallery, Spring Street Gallery, Nickerson Projects, SAIC Galleries, and at the 2025 New Art School Modality Art/Writing Symposium at Hauser & Wirth, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Romance at Minėmå and Environment Paintings, Continued at Spring Street Gallery. Group exhibitions include Novel Ecosystems at St. Kate Arts Hotel Gallery in Milwaukee and the Making New Monuments Symposium at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
In 2025, Katherine was awarded the Pocoapoco Artist Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, where she created Stone Hug, a site-specific sculpture shaped by a lived struggle with authority—its weight and presence—offering the Ceiba tree as a site of relief. In 2024, she was awarded the Poor Farm Experiment Artist Residency in Little Wolf, Wisconsin, where she created Brick Purse, a publication and sculpture series of nine ready-to-wear statement purses. Featuring repurposed bricks sourced from The Poor Farm Experiment and locally culled fishline, the work offered a witty commentary on the hegemonic demands placed on women and was featured at TRYST, in association with the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles.
Her ongoing Regional Studio Residency at the Vermont Studio Center (2021–present) continues to support her evolving practice. Previous residencies include Vermont Week (2019) at the same center. Through her continuous exploration of color, form, and space, Katherine Clarke Langlands invites viewers into an ever-evolving dialogue between the material and the metaphysical.
During her residency at Studio 88, Katherine Clarke Langlands will explore the growing role of performance and embodied activation in her multidisciplinary practice. She aims to deepen her understanding of how physical presence and movement can activate her works with poetics and intention.
Building on ongoing series such as The Good Spots, Brick Purse, Line Paintings, and Drifts, she plans to experiment with performative extensions of her sculptures and installations, continuing her inquiry into the connections between material, perception, and landscape.
A key focus will be researching color as both material and performative element, expanding her study of natural pigments into the Thai environment. Through this, Katherine hopes to develop new multisensory forms of activation and engage with the Thai landscape through a practice grounded in curiosity, care, and cultural awareness.
For more about Katherine Clarke Langlands, visit https://www.xokcl.com/
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