Kate Hooray Osmond
Hooray Osmond is an American interdisciplinary artist and freelance curator based in Charleston, SC, whose work explores non-judgement and the impossibility of experience. She has been named the State Fellow for South Carolina and her work has been twice included in the South Carolina Biennial. She exhibits nationally. Kate's work is heavily process based: she travels by helicopter, climbs cranes, and repels from buildings to capture the source images for her work. Her most recent show, "Dos Miradas," explored carnival culture and imagery from her time spent living in Central America. Her current series "Dead Bugs" depicts the deceased insects with which she encounters on a daily basis.
Recently, her paintings have been included in the Biennial by the Center for Contemporary Art of South Carolina, the LaGrange Southeast Regional, the Loveland Museum, and as a finalist for the CCA Prize. She is a 2025 Visiting Artist at the Gibbes Museum of Art.
Hooray Osmond's artwork has been featured in Introspective Magazine, Art and Cake LA, Shoutout Atlanta, and ArtMag. Kate Hooray earned her MFA in Studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art and her BA from St. Mary's College of Maryland.
"I aim to paint a world where definitions and foundations are increasingly dissolute. A world of complete energy: change, abundance, sorrow, creation and destruction. I am embracing everything in order to see the complete balance of existence and to learn peace in a climate when nothing lasts."
