Born and raised in Busan, Korea, Kate Bae is an immigrant artist and independent curator based in New York City. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, both in painting. Bae is a founder of Women’s Cactus for the Arts, a collective of women artists working in decorative manner that debuted in the SPRING/BREAK Art show 2020, and a member of Fictional Arts Collective (FAC). She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo shows at the Sunroom Project Space in Wave Hill, Bronx, NY and the Deiglan Gallery in Akureyri, Iceland. Bae is a recipient of Ora Lerman Trust Grant, 2018 Creative Capital Professional Development Program and the 2017 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. She has been an artist in residence at the Golden Foundation, SÍM Seljavegur, the Studios at Mass MoCA, Trestle Gallery, the Wassaic Project, Chashama and the Serlachius-museot, among others. She is a current fellow at the 2020/2021 Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency.