Bio

Kate Montgomery (b. Cambridge, UK, 1986) was raised in the South Wales Valleys where her early education was conducted entirely through the Welsh language.
She attained a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art with Honours from the University of Wales, and a Master of Fine Arts in Art with a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Oregon.

Filtered through a diaristic lens of loss, Kate’s work contemplates death through an atheist perspective, wondering: without a religious structure to cushion the incomprehensible blow of grief, what can science do for those of us left behind? By exploring ceramic sculpture, microscopic experimentation, sound design, and fragmented natural materials, Kate attempts to measure how far can we trace the redistribution of our biology throughout the environment and, in turn, better understand our place in the Cosmos.

In 2024, Kate was selected as the recipient of the University of Oregon Georgianne Teller Singer Dean’s Graduate Fellowship. The Singer Fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding third-year graduate student in the Department of Art whose research activities and creative work clearly encompasses the systematic exploration of a body of knowledge.

In 2019, Kate completed a Curatorial Internship in Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she worked on Diego Rivera’s America, a major exhibition of Rivera’s work from the 1920s to the mid-1940s, with a specific focus on the monumental Pan American Unity mural, measuring twenty-two by seventy-four feet.

Kate is currently completing an Art Handling Internship at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) in Eugene, Oregon.