Kat Hart is a multidisciplinary, conceptual artist who works across painting, collage, assemblage, and text. Often employing language as a material form, her work engages with individual and social critique to explore intersections of identity, performance, race, gender, and power. Through the appropriation of pre-existing motifs, she uses text to challenge notions of culture and society as a way of confronting the viewer and disrupting physical and social space.
She has exhibited her work at galleries and institutions throughout Virginia, including Artspace Gallery, Art Works Gallery, Second Street Gallery, Ruffin Gallery, and the Fralin Little Museum of Art. Her work has been nationally recognized, receiving the Silver Medal with Distinction Portfolio Award (2021) for her series, Perspective, and the Civic Expression Award, American Visions Award, and Gold Medal (2020) from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.
Hart received her BA from the University of Virginia in Studio Art (Painting Concentration) and Environmental Thought and Practice with a minor in Urban and Environmental Planning in 2025. She is currently based in Charlottesville, VA, as an Aunspaugh Fellow at the University of Virginia.
