Kate Kosek is a visual artist based in Cohoes, NY. Her colorful textile sculptures satirize the hierarchies within art, craft, and design history. As female bodily autonomy is continuously threatened, her work is a playful manipulation of form and language pertaining to her perspective as a woman. She focuses on gendered stereotypes and how they shape the way we think about labor versus leisure and functional versus decorative objects. Through her art, she imagines a world where objects have their own agency and opposing forces can co-exist and transform one another.
Kate exhibits her work internationally and has been commissioned for numerous mural and design projects. She is included in publications by Chronicle Books (US), Laurence King (UK), and Atem Books (Spain). Her 2014 clothing collaboration with Gorman was featured in Vogue Australia. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Burren College of Art (Ballyvaughan, Ireland), Collar Works X ChaShaMa (Troy, NY), and Tech Valley Center of Gravity (Troy, NY). She is a 2025 recipient of the Arts Thrive and Grow Grant Program awarded by the Arts Center of the Capital Region (NY).
Kate received her MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Textiles from Georgia State University and her BFA in Painting and Drawing with a minor in Art History from SUNY New Paltz. She is the head of the art department at Academy of the Holy Names in Albany.
