Kate Raudenbush is a New York-based sculpture artist and designer. Her art is both unconventional and international: from a far-flung art residency near the DMZ in South Korea, to a monolithic gateway sculpture leading to the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada, to a massive winged soundstage in Amsterdam for the Mysteryland festival.  Her sculptures can be found in both Miami art fairs and civic squares in Montreal, Tulum, Reno and San Francisco. 

"Sculpture is a vital part of the civic landscape, and is a core ingredient in public place-making," says Kate. "From parks and gardens to civic squares, Creativity and participatory events make culture.  That is the secret sauce that makes our cities dynamic and magnetic."

Evolving as a self-taught sculptor in the creative vanguard of Burning Man since 1999, Kate's laser-cut allegorical and inclusive sculptures comment on the perils and potential of our evolving humanity. She created the first Burning Man sculpture to be collected straight from the desert and into the permanent collection of a US museum in 2007, and was one of a select few artists to feature in the record-breaking “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” show at the Smithsonian. In 2019, she received the National Citizen Artist Award from Americans for the Arts at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington DC. One of Kate’s most exciting upcoming projects is a solo show of allegorical sculptures at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia in 2023.

"The most unifying identifier of humanity is found in its creative culture. What we cherish and what we create represents who we are. Art is a conduit through which humanity understands itself.”