About

Kate VanVliet is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Found and collected materials are the main components of her work - graphic elements of etchings and physical building blocks of sculptures and installations. The practice of print-making, multiplicity, and repeated actions bring a curated specificity to found object artworks’ potential for chaos. Parallel with her studio practice, VanVliet co-founded the artist collective and printshop, BYO Print, in 2010, after earning a BFA in sculpture and printmaking from Moore College of Art & Design in 2007.

VanVliet is a co-Director of BYO Printmaking Collaborative, the nonprofit printshop organization BYO Print became in 2023. She has led several collaborative projects through the printshop, including co-curating the portfolio, Solastalgia: Redefining Home in Precarious Times, for the 2022 Southern Graphics Council conference, Our Shared Future, in Madison, WI. She also served on the panel, Exit Strategies, at the 2024 conference in Providence, RI, Verified By Proof.

VanVliet participated in the 2024 cohort of New Voices, a career development series and exhibition award at Print Center New York, in Chelsea, and has received a 2025 WIND Challenge in July 2025. She was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in 2017, and was the 2018-19 Artist in Residence at Cheltenham Arts Center, where she currently teaches intaglio and non-toxic printmaking courses. She recently completed a Flat File Residency in the Printmaking Department at Tyler School of Art in fall 2024 and has been a visiting artist at Moore College of Art & Design and Arcadia University. She is represented by Paradigm Gallery + Studio in Philadelphia, PA. Her 2023 debut solo exhibition at the gallery, Heirloom Machine, presented etchings and sculptures in conversation with each other. As an artist who is also a mother, she explored the process of becoming a human heirloom machine, as both a maker of precious objects and a maker of humans.

Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including Stanford University’s Bowes Art & Architecture Library, Hotel Anna & Bel, SGCI Archives at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Moore College of Art & Design, and the William Penn Foundation.