Kate Balfe

Artist	Kate Balfe	Resides	United States
Website	katebalfe.com	Medium	Oil
Print Shop	katebalfe.com/shop	Email	Katebalfe56@gmail.com
Representing Gallery	Nanny Goat Gallery Petaluma, United States WOW x WOW	Themes	Nostagia Dread and hope Nature vs technology Powerlessness
Follow the Artist	Instagram

About the artist

Kate Balfe grew up in Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of an American mother and a British father. She attended Sheridan College in Oakville briefly before transferring to the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she earned a degree in Classical Animation.

Kate has worked in the game and entertainment industry as a designer, concept artist, and art director. She art-directed the award-winning VR film Arden’s Wake, which received the first-ever Venice Film Festival Lion awarded to a VR project. She has been painting full time since 2023

Artwork Themes & Subject Matter

Art has always been Kate Balfe’s way of navigating the complexities of big emotions, a tool to transform the intangible into a window through which she can connect with the deep emotions of others. Her work exists in the charged space where fear meets imagination. “Through my practice, I explore what it means to find comfort and awe in a world that can often feel overwhelming, striving to embrace wonder rather than be consumed by dread”.

Nostalgia plays a pivotal role in this exploration. For Kate, the past is both a refuge and a source of sorrow. She’s always aware of mortality. She frequently use extreme scale disparities, time disparities, and nature/industrial juxtaposition as metaphor

Upcoming Exhibitions

When	Exhibition	Gallery
February 2026	Group exhibition: “Heavy PETting”	Brassworks Gallery Portland OR, USA
June 2026	Group exhibition: “There is no Formula”	WOW x WOW Online
April 2026	Solo exhibition: Yet to be announced	Nanny Goat Gallery Petaluma, United States
Yet to be announced	Yet to be announced	Nielsen Arts and Framing Berkeley CA, USA