Kate Quarfordt is a Brooklyn-based artist whose architectural portraits and luminous mixed media works blur boundaries between what is fixed and ephemeral, urban and natural, masculine and feminine, bordered and free.
In addition to her visual art practice, Quarfordt is a singer, performer, theater director and arts educator. She is a co-founder of City School of the Arts, an arts-based middle school in Manhattan and a proud member of The Resistance Revival Chorus.
Quarfordt studied Fine Art and Theater at Northeastern University, received her masters in Education from Teachers College, Columbia, participated in The Canopy Program as part of Tamara Gonzalez’s 2024-25 cohort and will be joining Matt Phillips and Jared Linge’s Canopy 2.0 cohort for 2026-27. She is a mother of three.