Kat Collins (b. 1977) is an abstract painter based in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, whose work explores emotional weather, sensory memory, and the layered terrains of internal experience. Working primarily in mixed media, Collins builds her paintings through intuitive gesture, atmospheric color fields, and cycles of layering and revision that create depth, tension, and a sense of quiet resonance. Her practice investigates the spaces where feeling becomes form—where the unseen movements beneath the surface of daily life gather, shift, and emerge.
Collins earned her BFA from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in 2000 and has since developed a distinctive visual language rooted in intuition, mark-making, and embodied emotional perception. She works across canvas, paper, and wood panel, incorporating materials such as acrylic, ink, graphite, collage, charcoal, and oil pastel to create paintings that function as internal landscapes.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries and arts institutions across the United States, including the Allentown Art Museum, the Ronald K. De Long Gallery, Connexions Gallery, the David E. Rodale and Rodale Family Galleries, The Boyer Gallery, Midnight Gallery, NoName Gallery, and the Sigal Museum, as well as venues in New Jersey, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. Her paintings are held in private collections nationwide and have been featured in contemporary art publications.
Collins continues to expand her practice through new large-scale bodies of work, installation projects, and a forthcoming series inspired by Walt Whitman’s assertion, “I am large, I contain multitudes.”