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Katie Huckson (@katyhuck) is an interdisciplinary artist & art educator with an interest in sentimentality, melancholy, disturbance, disorder, loss, and fear, currently living/working in Sault Ste. Marie. Katie is currently the program lead for Digital Creator in Sault Ste Marie, and is also sessional instructor at Algoma University and a P.h.D candidate in Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Katie’s art practices involves a variety of media practices but recently has centred around performance, video and installation. Often her work is motivated by a struggle to control, or a perpetual sense of longing for something lost and/or unattainable. She draws from deeply personal experiences, insecurities, and memories to make work that aims to reach others in its awkward honesty. Recently Katie has been making work that reflects on body image, food, femininity and eating disorder. Katie is interested in the constrictive definitions for health and body as prescribed by the medical institution, and the authority of the clinic in asserting these troubling “norms”.

Huckson graduated with a BFA from Algoma University in 2013 and received her MFA from the University of Windsor in 2017. She has exhibited across Canada and abroad and has participated in residencies in Colorado, Italy, and Vietnam. Her video, Normal Disorders, won Best Picture at the Lights, Camera, Take Action Film Festival at the University of Colorado in 2018. In 2019, she performed an artwork for Occupy The Kitchen Vol.2 in Varese, Italy, supported by the Ontario Arts Council.