Katie Vida is an interdisciplinary artist. Vida is the recipient of fellowships at Shandaken Project, VCUQatar, Fanoon: Center for Print Media Research, Yaddo, Millay Colony, and the Budapest Puppet Theater, among others. She has presented work at venues including Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, The Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase, ALLGOLD MoMA PS1 in Queens, Creative Time in New York, Yale University Art Gallery, The Luggage Store in San Francisco, and she was awarded Best Experimental Film for her film Shelly at the Brussels Independent Film Festival in 2020. She has served as visiting artist at institutions including Brown University, Pratt Institute, and has served as adjunct assistant professor in the M.F.A. program at Maine College of Art. Vida holds an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art and a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design.
At MacDowell in 2016, Vida worked on visual and textual elements and research including drawings, video, scripts, and sound collages for an upcoming cabaret performance in Brooklyn. During her 2026 residency, she worked on a project inspired by multi-year research on women of Weimar era Berlin cabaret performance history. She developed a video work (yet untitled) and completed a first cut. She also began scripting a live performance work based on her research intended to integrate excerpts from the video also developed at MacDowell.
Portrait by Katie Vida
