Kate Trafeli is an American-British visual artist, curator, arts educator, and studio manager based in London, UK. Her studio is held by the arts charity Collage Arts. On this site's pages you can explore a video of Kate in her studio, read an interview with her, and view her work in a large-scale London public commission.

Colour synesthesia, composition, and visible brushstrokes evoke emotion and narrative in Kate’s paintings and sculptures. The fragments in her work draw from multiple sources, including personal and external histories, magical realism, music, and both the natural and built world. Through abstraction and mark-making, her practice expresses moments and stories from her own life and others.

In the United Kingdom, Kate is represented by WAW Gallery and SOTA. She has worked with numerous additional galleries on solo showcases and pop-up exhibitions, including with The London Art Fair, STARTArt at the Saatchi Gallery, AAF, and TOAF in London, Los Angeles, and New York, as detailed in her current CV. For updates on current shows, visit the "News" page on this site or follow Kate on Instagram. Kate welcomes commissions and invites visitors to her North London studio by appointment. Kate is also involved in collaborative projects with other artists.

In addition to her artistic practice, Kate has experience in initiating, managing, curating, and broadcasting exhibitions. A key example is 'Katmapped,' an online exhibition platform she co-curated, which hosted international artists and focused on thematic, multi-disciplinary art. She created Katmapped during the COVID-19 pandemic as a social enterprise initiative for artists then unable to exhibit their work in person. The archived shows can be accessed at Katmapped Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20221011100757/https://katmapped.org/

Kate is open to working with reputable arts organisations, galleries, consultants, and curators across the UK, Europe, and the US.

Twice a year, she is a guest residential tutor at the highly regarded art centre Coombe Farms Studios in Devon, England, where she creates and leads a five-day immersive abstract painting course for adult learners.

For inquiries or further information, please contact Kate.

Thank you for your interest in Kate's work.