We are living in a time of rapidly degrading environmental change. In my artwork, I am investigating the intersections between species and how these nonhuman networks can help us understand our own place within the spiraling web of survival and extinction. My interdisciplinary creative research and practice engages necessary entanglements with the natural world, helping me understand and coexist with the unspeakable truths and contradictions of life. Using animal studies, natural histories, and human interactions with the nonhuman world as a framework, I am exploring how humans cope with extinction and utilize grief to determine our own survival and begin looking for solutions. I am interested in the ways that art might open up this conversation.
Katherine Hair is an artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She creates installations, paintings, sculptures, and prints that are collected and exhibited worldwide. She earned a BFA in printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA in studio art from the University of Illinois.