2025 Wind Challenge Artist
Kate VanVliet is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Found and collected materials are the main components of her work - graphic elements of etchings and physical building blocks of sculptures and installations. The practice of print-making, multiplicity, and repeated actions bring a curated specificity to found object artworks’ potential for chaos. Parallel with her studio practice, VanVliet co-founded the artist collective and printshop, BYO Print, in 2010, after earning a BFA in sculpture and printmaking from Moore College of Art & Design in 2007.
VanVliet participated in the 2024 cohort of New Voices, a career development series and exhibition award at Print Center New York, in Chelsea, and has received a 2025 WIND Challenge in July 2025. She was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in 2017, and was the 2018-19 Artist in Residence at Cheltenham Arts Center, where she currently teaches intaglio and non-toxic printmaking courses. She recently completed a Flat File Residency in the Printmaking Department at Tyler School of Art in fall 2024 and has been a visiting artist at Moore College of Art & Design and Arcadia University. She is represented by Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, PA. Her 2023 debut solo exhibition at the gallery, Heirloom Machine, presented etchings and sculptures in conversation with each other. As an artist who is also a mother, she explored the process of becoming a human heirloom machine, as both a maker of precious objects and a maker of humans.
Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including Stanford University’s Bowes Art & Architecture Library, Hotel Anna & Bel, SGCI Archives at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Moore College of Art & Design, and the William Penn Foundation.
