Birth: San Jose, California 1986
Current residence: Portland, Oregon

Katie Dunbar uses objects and experiences to create work that reflects her obsessive conversation analyzing both bee culture and the human experience. Her work utilizes single, autonomous units and places importance on a larger collectives, emphasizing mass, patterns, inclusion, community, and success through collective cooperation and commitment. While her displays are visually inviting, they critique our interactions with the material objects, suggesting both highlights and errors in consumption, uniformity, and disposable tendencies. Dunbar's work reflects how individual and collective systems function simultaneously, creating intentional metaphors for the larger societal conversation at hand. She hopes to offer viewers a new connection with frequently overlooked objects within day-to-day life. Directly reflecting on her own fast-paced existence, Dunbar feels it is necessary to slow down and take note of smaller moments of coexistence, creating a sense of appreciation for our everyday.