BIO

Katie Vota is a Chicago-based artist and educator whose work pushes the boundaries of tapestry in the digital age. Her woven dreamscapes site the glitch in the woven matrix as a site for rupture, for change—a generative space for the creation of new futures.

Vota received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2010, magna cum laude) and a Studio MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015). She was awarded a US Student Fulbright Grant (’11-’12) to study traditions of Andean Back-strap Weaving and Natural Dyeing in Cusco, Peru, with the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco.

Vota has exhibited in numerous solo and juried exhibitions, at venues including Threewalls (Chicago), Mu Gallery (Chicago), Pratt MPW School of Art Gallery (Utica, NY), The Krasl Art Center (St. Joseph, MI), The Indianapolis Art Center (Indianapolis), and Ignition Projects (Chicago). She is a Lenore Tawney Foundation Scholar, a Chicago DCASE grantee, and has participated in residencies such as Praxis Fiber Workshop's Digital Weaving Lab Residency, Hyde Park Center Program’s New Works Residency, CAC Field Work Residency, Chicago Art Department’s “On Mending” think tank, and Crosshatch (formerly the Institute for Sustainable Art and Natural Design) in Traverse City, MI.

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