Kat Chudy is a multimedia artist living and working in Tallahassee, Florida. Kat graduated from Florida State University with an MFA in studio art and teaches printmaking at Thomasville Center for the Arts in Thomasville, Georgia. Chudy participates yearly in the Southeastern College Art Conference, chairing panels and presenting research on access and disability aesthetics. Their work is shown both in disabled shows and venues, as well as mainstream exhibitions, something they believe is critical to help bring disability culture to mainstream understanding as part of the larger picture of the human experience.

Artist Statement

Printmaking is the bedrock of my artistic practice, being an efficient way to work out formal problems and iterate before bringing the ideas into fiber or sculptural form. Signifiers of illness become beautiful installations or prints either through conceptual or physical transformation. My sculptural and fiber work uses found, used, or discarded items as a base – something that mirrors the need to make do with what is available and strives towards efficiency, an ethos of recycling, and a reduction of waste. Through visual rhythms scar tissue can become a beautiful texture, numbers a brutalist design, and old clothes can gain new life as flamboyant costumes. Repetition and accumulation in my work comes from finding parallels between my collecting and the way in which medical histories are collected by institutions and individuals. My own collections form a strong research base for my material studies, and I also seek points in the community to collect detritus from others.