Kaitlin Wilfing (she/her) is an artist, curator, and the Art Museum Preparator of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Born and raised from St. Louis, Missouri Wilfing received her BFA emphasis in Painting and Drawing and minor in Psychology from Webster University. She studied abroad twice in Vienna, Austria to work on her art practice before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota the Summer/Fall of 2025. A freelance curator since 2018, she has proposed, juried, organized, and installed exhibitions in many unique spaces - recently completing 30 installations before turning 30. Most recent shows she's curated have been focused on the diversity of paper making, histories and traditions of AAPI immigrants, a series of all women and non-binary exhibitions, and many more. In St. Louis, Wilfing had cultivated a variety of jobs at art institutions that focused on showcasing various kinds of works at a level that (both physically and emotionally) the general public felt engaged with and respond to. She has a special affiliation to socially engaged visual exhibitions that focus on labors and teachings or techniques which have been historically overlooked or forgotten. Since the Pandemic she's taught workshops, volunteered at art fairs, taught at her alma mater, worked in artist guilds, shown her work in exhibitions, and more.
In her personal artistic practice, Wilfing uses crochet doilies and embroidered lace fabrics to create ethereal and surreal reimagining of the sublime directly onto the objects which show up in the domestic, everyday spaces. Painting portraits of friends and family on passed down objects, these works become a two fold tangible declaration of people loved and memory lost. All while using painting, photography, and sculpture to invoke historical context, play with the ideals of portraiture, and understand craft through intersectional feminism lens.