Katrina Boemig was born in a blizzard in Brattleboro, Vermont. She was brought home from the hospital, tucked into a giant red Christmas stocking. Her twin sister was born a year later under similar circumstances. For several years she was the only person that could communicate with her sister and she would sometimes mistranslate on purpose. She believes her early career as a translator taught her to seek comfort in the recklessness of oral history, and that the storm she was born into influenced her perception of the everyday.

 

Her social and collaborative projects include collecting stories in long-term care facilities, creating aural maps, setting up workshops for residents of assisted living facilities to educate young adults, collecting personal stories from strangers, creating audioscapes utilizing GPS technology, and fabricating large-scale installations for play and contemplation.

 

Katrina has lived and worked in Brattleboro, VT Buffalo, NY, Portland, OR, London, UK and Brooklyn, NY.

 

She received a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo.  Additionally, Katrina studied Internationally at Central Saint Martins in London, UK and in 2011-2012 she was a part of a collaborative residency at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China.  

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Select exhibitions include:

The Today Museum in Beijing, China

Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Canada

Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, Germany

The Wassaic Project, in Wassaic NY

The Flying Object, in Western MA

The Invisible Dog, in Brooklyn, NY

Hallwalls’ Artist and Models in Buffalo, NY

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Katrina was an Adjunct Professor at Niagara University and also taught courses for three year in The Visual Studies Department at The University at Buffalo, SUNY.

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Katrina has been on sabbatical from the art world since June 2016

Instead of making art with her skills and passions she's advocating for people receiving Long-term Care.

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The everyday is art. 

Learn by listening.