Kathy Murillo is a queer Venezuelan Caribbean-rooted and Dutch-born artist whose practice weaves intersectional feminism and personal mythology into a multidisciplinary body of work. Rooted in the emotional geographies of migration and belonging, Murillo’s art unfolds through painting, sculpture, video, performance, and participatory projects that engage communities as active collaborators.
Graduating with honours in Fine Art from the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam University, 2023) and completing an Erasmus program at Central Saint Martins (London), Murillo developed an expanded practice grounded in research, activism, and care. Their work has been featured in FAD Magazine, the Financial Times, and other international publications, and presented in exhibitions including Hoogtij Den Haag and the North Sea Jazz Festival.
In 2023, Murillo founded KindleArt, an ongoing initiative connecting young people with contemporary art through dialogue, co-creation, and social imagination. The project amplifies youth voices and fosters cross-cultural understanding through artistic collaboration.
Murillo’s artistic research, inspired by thinkers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, and Sara Ahmed, explores themes of justice, spirituality, memory, and displacement. Each piece operates as both testimony and proposition an act of truth-telling that transforms vulnerability into shared strength. Active in the Netherlands, Mexico, and England, Murillo continues to expand their transnational practice, using art as a space to question structures of power and to imagine new forms of belonging.
