KATHERINE DEMETRIOU SIDELSKY
KD Sidelsky is a New York-based artist whose work investigates physical and perceptual boundaries, along with the sensory experiences they evoke. With a background in architecture, she explores place and memory through natural and constructed topographies.
She received the Honor Award for Excellence in Design from the California Council of the American Institute of Architects while working in Los Angeles, after completing her Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Arizona. Upon earning a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, she was awarded the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize, and practiced architecture in New York City before developing her interest in photography while raising a family.
As an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Katherine engages the relationship between photography and sculpture through installation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including New York City, Chicago, Richmond, Northampton (UK), and Barcelona (Spain).
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Transplantation is the fragile act of moving something—an organ, a species, a culture—from one context to another. Like a graft, it may root and flourish, cultivating resilience, or falter under the strain of difference, ending in rejection or loss. This shifting sense of place, intrinsic to displacement, opens pathways for resistance, adaptation, and the reconfiguration of belonging.
(Claude)Mirror refracts these concerns through visual technologies, inviting a closer look at how filters—optical, conceptual, cultural—shape visibility and obscurity. It asks: How do acts of framing influence our understanding of what is deemed “invasive”? And to what extent can photographic interventions disrupt dominant narratives of belonging and exclusion?
