Born in West Palm Beach, USA
Lives and works in New York
Informed by her experience growing up in Caribbean and African American neighborhoods in South Florida, the artist seeks to memorialize these communities through innovative printmaking techniques. St. Hilaire engages with the long and complex history of the island nation of Haiti, reflecting the lasting effects of colonial rule, foreign occupation, and political struggle. she approaches these narratives by blending historical research with myth, symbolism, and imagination. With compositions built through an intensive printmaking process, layering dozens of impressions made from carved linoleum blocks, St. Hilaire's compositions hold both documented events and legendary figures, allowing fact and fiction to exist side by side.
education
2018-20 Yale School of Art, MFA Painting/Printmaking
2013-17 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Printmaking
solo shows
2026
The Vocals of the Chaotic Burst, Perrotin, Paris, France
2024
Invisible Empires, curated by Robert Wiesenberger and Tyler Blackwell, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Invisible Empires, curated by Robert Wiesenberger and Tyler Blackwell, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Mounting Spirits, Resisting Empire, Perrotin, New York, NY
2022
Kathia St. Hilaire: Immaterial Being, curated by Ariella Wolens, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, FL
2021
The Pilgrimage of the Soul, public commission organized by Fringe Projects, Miami, FL
group shows
2026
Améfrica: Diasporic Connections in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, curated by Hélio Menezes, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
2025
Go to the limits of your longing, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
FEMMES, curated by Pharrell Williams, Perrotin, Paris, France
2024
La Trienal, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY
Collage Culture, Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
Reverb, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2023
The Bitter and the Sweet: Kentucky Sugar Chests, Enslavement, and the Transatlantic World 1790-1865, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
2022
Between the Snakes, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
Regarde-moi, Perrotin, Paris, France
We are family, The New York Academy, New York, NYC
2021
WITNESS: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio, Miami, FL
Resting Point of Accommodation, Almine Rech, Brussel
Group Show, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Celestial Transits, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (Two-Person)
2020
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sympathetic Magic, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles,CA
Inertial Dynamics, Half Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Figure Abstract, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Thesis Show, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2019
Bophilla, Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA
Three person show with Clare Grill and Lauren Luloff, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Second Year Show, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2018
First Year Show, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Circles Without Breaks, Local Project Art Space, New York, Long Island City
2017
Fete-Fete Baldamor, Okay Space Gallery, New York, NY
Wheaton Biennial: Printmaking Reimagined, Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA BLK2 LUV, E.M.P Collective Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2015
Kindred Exhibition, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
public collections
Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg
El Espacio, Miami, FL
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Rhode Island School of Design Special Collections, Providence, RI
awards
2020 Eli Harwood Schless Prize, Yale School of Art 2019 Jorge M. Perez Award
2015 Ripley F.W Albright Memorial, RISD
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
The Pilgrimage of the Soul, Fringe Projects, Miami, FL
Our Only Guide to Justice, BAM Brooklyn, NYC
LECTURES
2022 The New York Academy, New York, NY 2021 Carnegie Mellon School of Art, Pittsburgh,PA
UT Austin Printmaking Class, Austin, TX
