Katherine Hofmann (b. 2000)
in Miami, FL and lives and works in West Palm Beach, Florida and is a teaching artist at the Norton Museum of Art. Hofmann received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design in 2023. She works as a mixed media watercolorist creating large-scale works on paper using natural pigments, and handmade collage as well as in the sculptural mediums of kiln-cast glass and ceramics. Hofmann’s work describes the water's movement from fresh to salt and the chronology of her path, looking deeper into the flora and fauna of South Florida. In March 2026, Hofmann will have her first Solo Exhibition Seams Between Land and Sky at the Palm Beach Cultural Council in Lake Worth, Florida. Selected group exhibitions including Summer Heat, Delray Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL 2025, mtn spaceship, mtn space, Lake Worth, FL 2025, Center Salon Exhibition + Art Auction, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, 2025, Art Miami Booth #334, OMSA Gallery, Miami FL 2025, and Floridiana, the Land’s Identity, OMSA Gallery, FL, 2024. Hofmann was awarded residency at Salem Art Works as a ceramicist, the Florence Leif Award, and is in several private collections.
Artist Statement
The air was hot and laden with the smell of standing water and sawgrass; the density pushed everything living into a hush. My pulse slowed to a sedated rhythm that mirrored the veiled black surface. One foot in front of the other, sinking through the warm water down into the grasp of the brisk mud. The grasses grow and die, living off of their own rotting; the density of the Everglades reincarnates, interwoven to obscure all sound.
Driving my material process of finding, burying, excavating, tangling, and detangling is my need to unearth my intangible memories expanding through painting and sculpture. Through intertwining images and a material language of my own, I am intent on listening closely to the landscape and encountering stillness.
I align myself between the permeable boundaries of the cerebral and tangible by mimicking the Earth’s art-making. Pigments are suspended within shallow pools of water evaporating to reveal the footprint of their flow, with water as the creative matrix, life animates itself in the material event of watercolor.
The Everglades whispers, and the closer I look the louder she calls.
Never fully knowable; we are nestled within.
I recall deeply the personal encounters and my bond to this place, rhyming images as they absorb into each other, mapping through camouflage.
Connect with me to inquire about commissions and projects at ︎︎︎khofmann.studio@gmail.com