Kate Quarfordt is a multifaceted artist whose architectural portraits and luminous mixed media works evoke themes of longing, mutuality and inner multitudes.
A central thread in Quarfordt’s practice is transforming the pages of discarded books with gouache and mixed-media collage into portraits, dreamscapes and portals to inner worlds.
Quarfordt is a frequent collaborator with singers, performers, writers, and activists, creating multidisciplinary works that invoke stories of resistance and create spaces for connection, action, and reflection.
In addition to her visual art practice, Quarfordt is a singer, performer, theater director and educator. She is a proud member of The Resistance Revival Chorus, using music as a form of activism in venues ranging from protest rallies to Carnegie Hall.
A co-founder of City School of the Arts, an arts-based middle school in Manhattan, she directs theater with young people and teaches original interdisciplinary arts curricula.
Quarfordt studied Fine Art and Theater at Northeastern University and got her masters from Teachers College, Columbia. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their three children.