Katherine Spinella is an artist, organizer, and collaborator. Their research is focused on themes related to the attention economy and our cultural understanding of nature. They are a collage-based artist who employs printmaking, digital tools, sculpture, and video as primary mediums to raise questions about how we consume and relate to images, icons, and symbols. Using a playful, free-associative approach they create new narratives centered on labor, attention, and time that transform the refuse of commerce and everyday life into acts of renewal.

Spinella is co-director of Well Well Projects, Thunderstruck Collective, and co-founder of Carnation Contemporary. Her work has been supported by grants from the Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Portland State University, Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute, and Women's Studio Workshop. Recent exhibitions include Mood Ring, a two-person exhibition, at Nightengale Gallery in La Grande, OR, Dandelion, a solo exhibition, at Well Well Projects in Portland, OR; Summer Sampler at Museum of Museums in Seattle, WA; and inclusion in the 2023-24 Pacific Northwest Drawers at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR. This year, Spinella’s work was collected by Soho House and will be featured in the 2024 opening of the Soho House Portland.