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Katie Rose Pipkin is a curator and multidisciplinary artist native to Austin, Texas. Pipkin works in language, with code and on paper.
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Early life
Pipkin's parents worked with a nonprofit organization called The Nobelity Project, and began her artistic career as a young teen taking photographs for the organization's work. Pipkin graduated from Westlake High School in 2008, studied on a Young Masters grant at the Art Academy of San Francisco and Paris American Academy but finished at the University of Texas and Carnegie Mellon University.
Work
Pipkin makes drawings, as well as computational artwork, such as Twitterbots, as well as generative poetry and other software, including games.
From 2011 - 2013, Pipkin ran Wardenclyffe Gallery, an Austin multidisciplinary art space. In 2013, Pipkin was a part of exhibitions at Greyduck Gallery, The Texas Biennial, and Fusebox Festival.
Awards
As an undergraduate student, Katie Rose Pipkin was named All State Artist by the Texas Art Education Association. In 2012, Pipkin won Artist of the Year - Early Career in the Austin Visual Arts Awards. Pipkin was a Hunting Art Prize finalist in 2015 and 2016.