Kathryn Zazenski uses everyday materials to elicit feelings of phenomenological experience. Her work takes the form of video installation, projection, sound, and still images, and conceptually explores optical/natural phenomena and the notion of the frontier. Zazenski creates moments where through fracturing, layering, and looping information suddenly the things we perceive to know intimately become unfamiliar. She is interested in the paradox that is our desire to suspend disbelief, to be seduced, and then the persistent need to prove or rationalize all things.

Kathryn Zazenski has participated in artist residencies both internationally and domestically, including posts in China and Finland, as well as at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, FL. Kathryn has shared her work in group exhibitions and experimental projects internationally, including TransXpress, a group exhibition that took place on the Trans Siberian Railroad in the summer of 2012. Zazenski's work has been featured in two and three-person exhibitions with Carol Jazzar Contemporary in Miami, at STUDIO 371 in Jersey City, and Honfleur Gallery and Hillyer Art Space, both in Washington, DC. Most recently, Zazenski was awarded a residency with the Museum of New Art in Detroit where she developed the video installation Good Vibrations. Zazenski holds a BFA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art.