Kate Hopkins has a BA in political science, and an MFA in printmaking and lives and works in New York City. In 2024 Hopkins was accepted into the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program. Recent exhibitions include Structure and Story at the EFA Gallery, a Works on Paper show curated by Charlotta Kotik, former Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and a second Works on Paper show curated by Kim Conaty, Chief Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Conaty selected Painted Weaving No. 12, (thank you Emma Lee) for the second place prize. In 2025 three of Hopkins’ paintings were acquired by the Stanley Center for Peace and Sustainability.

After a 7 year hiatus from her art making practice, in 2022 Hopkins’ work underwent a dramatic shift in process and content. Initially inspired by the microscopic scales that cover butterfly wings, her watercolor paintings explore the innate physiologically calming and grounding effects of biophilic patterns from nature. The work is simultaneously a deep commitment and exploration of the process itself. Finding kinship with the often traditionally women-led mediums of the textile arts, through her work and research, Hopkins explores the historical and social impact of creative labor and craft traditions. She deconstructs the psychologically demanding and tedious process to ask if there is meaning behind creative labor that is fundamental to human flourishing both as an individual, and by extension, a community.

Her latest series begun in late 2024, highlights the perceptual qualities of biophilic patterns while harnessing the disciplined, labor intensive process to intentionally challenge and question Hopkins' experience of time, consciousness and identity.

portait by Lucas Hoeffel