Born in Palm Beach, USA
Lives and works in New York
S'inspirant de sa jeunesse dans les quartiers caribéens et afro-américains du sud de la Floride, l'artiste rend hommage aux communautés dont elle a fait partie à travers des techniques de gravure innovantes. Son travail s'inspire des drapeaux vaudou haïtiens utilisés pour raconter l'histoire du pays et honorer les esprits ancestraux. Avec des matériaux non traditionnels comme des produits de beauté, du métal industriel, du tissu ou des pneus, elle crée des tapisseries ornées qui cherchent à préserver l'histoire haïtienne et la religion vaudou qui existent à Miami.
Kathia St. Hilaire a obtenu son MFA en peinture et gravure à la Yale School of Art de New Haven, Connecticut, et son BFA en gravure à la Rhode Island School of Design de Providence. Ses œuvres ont récemment fait l'objet d'expositions collectives au Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and et à la galerie d’art de Skidmore College à Saratoga Springs, ainsi qu’à New York à la Half Gallery, Blum & Poe et James Fuentes.
education
2018-20 Yale School of Art, MFA Painting/Printmaking
2013-17 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Printmaking
solo shows
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
2025
Go to the limits of your longing, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
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
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