Katherine Hoffman

About the Artist

Katherine Hofmann (b. 2000) in Miami, Florida, lives and works in West Palm Beach, Florida, where she is a teaching artist at the Norton Museum of Art. Hofmann received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design in 2023. Working as a mixed-media watercolorist, she creates large-scale works on paper using natural pigments and handmade collage. Her work traces water's movement from fresh to salt and the chronology of her path, looking closely at the flora and fauna of South Florida. In 2026, Hofmann presented her first solo exhibition, Seams Between Land and Sky, at the Palm Beach Cultural Council in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.

Selected group exhibitions include Summer Heat (Delray Arts Warehouse, 2025), mtn spaceship (mtn space, 2025), Art Miami with OMSA Gallery (2025), and Floridiana, the Land’s Identity (OMSA Gallery, 2024).

Hofmann was awarded a residency at Salem Art Works and the Florence Leif Award.

And They Flew Painted Across the Sky
51.5” x 65.75”
watercolor and mulberry paper on hot-press paper

In the Artist’s words…

The air was hot and laden with the smell of standing water and sawgrass; the density pushed everything living into a hush. My pulse slowed to a sedated rhythm that mirrored the veiled black surface. One foot in front of the other, sinking through the warm water down into the grasp of the brisk mud. The grasses grow and die, living off of their own rotting; the density of the Everglades reincarnates, our undoing is our becoming. 

Driving my material process of finding, burying, excavating, tangling, and detangling is my need to unearth my intangible memories expanding through painting and sculpture. Through intertwining images and a material language of my own, I am intent on listening closely to the landscape and encountering stillness. 

A mirage of memory layered into landscape 

By mimicking the earth's own art-making, the act of painting becomes an ecology. Pigments are suspended within shallow pools of water evaporating to reveal the footprint of their flow, with water as the creative matrix, life animates itself in the material event of watercolor. The Everglades whispers, and the closer I look the louder she calls.

Never fully knowable; we are nestled within this place. I recall deeply the personal encounters and my bond to this place, rhyming images as they absorb into each other, mapping through camouflage. The seams between land, sky, and water dissolve.  Katherine Hoffman

Among the Walking Trees
32” x  53”
watercolor, coffee, walnut ink, and collage on hot press paper

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