Kaitlin Pomerantz (she, they) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia and New York. Pomerantz works across forms with purposeful materials to pose questions about ecological relations under extractive systems, land use an mis-use, consumption and discard, materials, and the way people and places create one another.
Pomerantz’s work has been supported by Monument Lab, Pew Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia Mural Arts, Sachs Arts and Innovation and other cultural organizations and foundations. They have most recently shown work at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, Buoy Gallery in Maine and Automat in Philadelphia. Pomerantz has recently held residencies at Surf Point (Maine), the Church (Sag Harbor, NY) and Officina Stamperia Notaio (IT). Pomerantz is a recent recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art + Change grant.
Pomerantz is a critic in the interdisciplinary MFA program at the School of Visual Arts and a lecturer in Fine Arts and Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Pomerantz holds a BA in Art History from the University of Chicago, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in Interdisciplinary Art and an ED. M From Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Pomerantz is the founder of MATTERS, an educational initiative connecting art and design materials to labor and land, supporting creative practices rooted in awareness, repair and care.
