Biography
Kat Bishop (she/her) is an experimental eco friendly analog/digital photographic image maker in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She uses exclusively eco friendly and low toxicity processes in her hybrid art practice that values the handmade image while working in harmony with the environment and exploring the integration of contemporary digital technology with historic/handmade image making. Her experimental art practice is a working space that integrates her passion for capturing the decisive moment in a single frame image with the impulsiveness of a Lomography inspired approach to image making that embraces the concepts of Wabi Sabi and Slow Photography, as well as the use of unconventional materials and exhibition modalities.
She has twelve years of undergraduate and graduate level teaching experience in analog, alternative process, experimental and digital photography at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico Highlands University and Santa Fe Community College. Kat has been a gallery director and sales person in several Canyon Road galleries and has owned a commercial studio in Santa Fe specializing in luxury real estate photography and the documentation of fine art pieces. Kat received an MFA with a major in Photography from the Burren College of Art/University of Galway in 2007, and spent the following year as an artist in residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, France. She completed undergraduate studies at San Francisco Art Institute, College for Creative Studies, University of Maryland and Maryland Institute College of Art, where she received a BFA with a major in Photography in 1999.
Her Anthotypes are currently featured in Open 2025 at Cambridge University (Cambridge UK), Return to the Sea (Worthing UK), the third edition of Malin Fabbri's Anthotype Emulsions Volume 3, and the book Food Stories. She has been an invited speaker at SPE and APIS conferences on her work with Caffenol, Anthotypes and other alternative processes. Kat was awarded a scholarship to Dan Burkholder’s iPhone Artistry Workshop at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and has studied with Jim Goldberg, Laurie Snyder, Jack Wilgus, Tom Baird and Jo Babcock. Her work has been featured at the David Richard Gallery (Santa Fe/New York), 5&33 Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Muscailt na Boirne Arts Festival (Galway, Ireland), Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe, NM), Glor Gallery (Ennis, Ireland), Arroyo Gallery (Santa Fe, NM), Photomonth International Photography Festival (London UK), Sirius Arts Centre (Cobh, Ireland), Tulca Fringe Festival (Galway, Ireland) and Festival Pil’Ours (Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France).