Kat Sotelo
Fall 2026 Space Grant Resident Artist
Kat Sotelo (she/they) is a first-generation Filipinx American performance artist, choreographer, and set designer whose work blends movement, satire, and constructed environments. Drawing from her experience in exotic dance, she explores the body as a site of commerce – examining fantasy, servitude, and the labor of spectacle. Trained at the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA, Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Video/Film) and with a background in the film industry, she moves fluidly between video, fabrication, and live performance, using cinematic language to construct layered realities. Sotelo’s work has been supported by Abrons Art Center, Movement Research, CPR – Center for Performance Research, New Dance Alliance, GALLIM Dance Company, Theater Mitu, The Brick Theater, and MOtiVE. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Photo by Matty Morris