About

Katie Rauth is a fat, queer multidisciplinary artist working between sculpture, performance, community organizing, and curating. Through her practice, she is involved in supporting dialogue within radical fat liberationist politics, questioning the delicate boundaries of care and control in public and private concerns around health and wellness. Drawing from Dutch Protestant vanitas imagery and personal experiences navigating classed systems of etiquette, Rauth’s work considers the morality placed on consumption and the complicated ethics of pleasure and indulgence.

A former staff member and artist-member alumnus of Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, Rauth supported the organization from 2014-2020, serving as Exhibitions Chair for her final two years. She is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant and the City of Philadelphia’s OACCE Creative Avenues Grant. They graduated with their BFA in Sculpture from Arcadia University in Glenside, PA, and have been invited as a  guest artist at Drexel University and University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Rauth is currently an MFA Candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.