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KAT WILSON

For decades, I have used portraiture to expand the possibilities of photography. As photography has changed through new technologies and changing cultural habits, my work has evolved with it.

HABITATS-Portraits built through environment PORTRAYAL-Portraits shaped by reputation WARRIOR WOMEN-Portraits as mythology #SELFIETHRONE-Portraits authored by the sitter AMERICAN STILLNESS-Portraits of place TOURIST TRAP-Portraits through experience FILMS-Portraits in motion LAYERS-Portraits through time UFO-Portraits through expanded perception

Habitats (2004-)

Habitats (2004) explores the lives of my sitters through the possessions and spaces that shape them, transforming everyday surroundings into portraits of heroism and vulnerability.

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Portrayal

Portrayal explores portraiture through public perception. Created in collaboration with fellow artists, the series questions the myth of photographic truth by examining how gossip, reputation, and shared experience shape the way we see one another.

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Warrior Women

Warrior Women embraces strength in vulnerability. Each portrait features a femme subject, bared and wearing armor crafted by artist Trisha Guting from materials that reflect the subject’s world, embodying the power and defiance of women ready for battle.

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#selfiethrone

Building on Habitats, my participatory projects #SelfieThrone and Party Art turn portraiture into shared celebration. Each work invites communities to help shape the image and experience. https://selfie-throne.com/

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Tourist Trap

Tourist Trap marks the beginning of an ongoing body of work exploring portraiture through place. First presented on the Fourth of July as my portrait of America for the nation's 250th birthday, it combines photography, installation, storytelling, and hospitality into an evolving portrait of the nation.

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Moving Portraits

Still photography captures a single moment. Film allows a portrait to unfold through time. My films extend my investigation of portraiture beyond the still image, using movement, sound, silence, and narrative to explore how people inhabit places and how places shape the people within them.

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Layers

Layers explores how multiple moments and perspectives can exist within a single photograph. By combining images made from every angle, I create portraits of place that unfold over time.

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UFO-Ultra Flattened Objects

Inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope, UFO explores photography's ability to reveal what was once invisible. Through layered photographs of the Ozark night sky, the work imagines new ways of seeing ourselves and the universe.Represented by MIXD Gallery.

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