Katherine Duclos

Katherine Duclos I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC. I got my MFA at Pratt, show across N America. She has exhibited her work in Canada and the United States.

Katherine Duclos (b. 1980, Massachusetts) received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2012 in Brooklyn, NY. After 10 years in New York, she moved to Vancouver, BC in late 2017 with her family, where she maintains a studio practice exploring painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Her current work deals with themes of motherhood and its often invisible emotional tol

l. She has worked as a teaching artist for organizations such as Studio in a School in New York City and the Philadelphia

This one is called, ‘I’d invite you in but I don’t have insurance.’ Close up and full view of this new painted digital p...
06/18/2026

This one is called, ‘I’d invite you in but I don’t have insurance.’ Close up and full view of this new painted digital print. This one was a bit strange because it started as photograph of process and then I drew on it digitally using one single tool in Lightroom and then I printed it and then I painted on it. It’s almost 17x17”, on Legacy Fiber paper.

This is a great technique for learning how to paint I think. The idea had been embedded in my shallow consciousness sinc...
06/18/2026

This is a great technique for learning how to paint I think. The idea had been embedded in my shallow consciousness since I started colouring my interior design catalogue with markers to make the rooms better. The idea of directly painting on top of an existing an image is very appealing to me. I hate repeating myself but there is something to this method that feels more like making the photo more than moment it was. It’s working well on this paper, which I was told when I bought it from the printer place that it’s “the best surface to print on,” (Legacy Fiber sure sounds like it thinks it’s the best) and I like that this is subverting that pristine surface a bit. The background did not get paint, nor the zipper. But everywhere else got layers and I am actually really impressed with my color matching and hair painting skills. Who knew. I can pretty much mix anything I see now. This is 17x22.

Close up section of a new painted photograph. This process is exciting me.
06/17/2026

Close up section of a new painted photograph. This process is exciting me.

Wip.
06/16/2026

Wip.

This is the underlying spray painting I did on the 12 Lego bases for my upcoming show in TOMELILLA, Sweden for that ope...
06/16/2026

This is the underlying spray painting I did on the 12 Lego bases for my upcoming show in TOMELILLA, Sweden for that opens on June 27. This painting served as a sketch to follow while I built but it wasn’t really a plan for me so much as a plan for the exhibition visitors who will be rebuilding the piece I created in top of this image. The build also got painted before I disassembled it so the pieces somewhat match the bases, creating a template for the kids and adults to work from. When I took apart each base I bagged and leveled the pieces by section so it would be easier to rebuild. Of course the final work will end up different than my version. And that’s wonderful. The point of art is to create a space for people to gather and marvel and connect. I think this was also probably the point of the Ales Stenar, the large stone ring on the coast of southern Sweden that provided inspiration for this image.

I decided to make a limited edition digital print run of the collage Spring Fair poster I made for my kids school. I wil...
06/16/2026

I decided to make a limited edition digital print run of the collage Spring Fair poster I made for my kids school. I will offer them for sale at the fair on Friday as a fundraiser for art materials for student classes next year. I printed this myself and it’s archival, exhibition quality on Cold Press Natural paper and I printed it at 13x19”, which I will sell for $50. I may make a couple larger ones for $100. I really loved making this. My son came up with the spring version of the school logo, replacing the typical tiger with a tiger lily. That gave me the idea for the big tiger smelling the flower. I also used actual photographs of the school grounds that I printed out and painted on top of. If you’re local and will want one, let me know so I can determine how many I should print. ✌🏻

06/15/2026

I have been thinking non stop about this lately. Insurance is our downfall as a species. It was a lie told by the wealthy that was forced upon all of us as truth. Wealth does not bring security. Belonging does. The shops that were lost at sea? Those sailors families were never made whole because the sailors had to take on their own risk. The wealth did not. The wealth could risk the lives of the sailors BECAUSE it would be protected. Lost labor was the acceptable cost of the profit and our world has functioned as such ever since. What if the progress and the wealth was never worth more than the sailors? What if the very idea that we can live in the future and save and hoard for security purposes actually is the lie that is ruining this world? What if instead we all lived to do no harm? To not put progress over people, capital over community. What if we recognized that having capital does not earn someone superiority, especially when the inherited wealth of the world is build on the massive belief that people could be possessions sold and protected like property? The insurance industry needs a take down. It’s where all the bad wealth actually is.

This one started as a blurry photo of my daughter in a neon green hat just after Christmas. I selected a bunch of prints...
06/13/2026

This one started as a blurry photo of my daughter in a neon green hat just after Christmas. I selected a bunch of prints today that I want to start painting on. Maybe this will be the bridge body of work that gets me through this transitional time. Or just a fun distraction. Who cares. The world is falling apart. This is regulation for me. I am looking for and creating harmony where there is discord.

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