About.
Kate Saubestre is a French-American multimedia artist who was raised as a global nomad. Her professional background includes working in theater production, video and as a visual artist alongside musicians. Her multi-textured upbringing and background are often translated into her practice as she transitions across various mediums and creates works to examine and process experienced environments.
Her current practice involves remedying the fictive and nostalgic version she was sold of the United States—through both media and visits of her grandmother’s suburban home in the Bay Area—with the more complex nuances and realities of the nation she began to unearth as an adult—a reality that was filled with cars, convenience and capitalism, ridden with detrimental societal and environmental consequences which continue to unfold in real time.
Education
MFA (Pending 2023) - University of California, Santa Barbara
BFA 2016 (Illustration) - Parsons School of Design, New York
Selected Exhibitions
2021 - While You Were Sleeping (Solo Exhibition), Glassbox Gallery, Santa Barbara
2021 - Art is the Cure, Channing Peak Gallery, Santa Barbara
2021 - Into the Void, Glassbox Gallery (Remote), Santa Barbara
2017 - Beaches (Featured Artist) at Studio 121, Santa Barbara
2016 - End of Year Exhibition, Parsons Main Gallery
2015 - Parallels: A One Night Experience, Brooklyn, New York
Theater Production Experience
2020
2019
2018
2017
Shrek: The Musical
Sense and Sensibility
Blithe Spirit
Measure for Measure
How to Succeed in Business Into the Beautiful North Significant Others
Harvey
Once Upon a Mattress
Death of a Salesman
The Legend of Georgia McBride The Last Lifeboat
School for Lies
The Games Afoot
Grease
Crimes of the Heart Communicating Doors
The Daffy Dame
Marriage of Figaro
Newsies
It’s a Wonderful Life
One Man Two Guvnors
Technical Director
Scenic Artist
Scenic Artist
Asst. Projection Des.
Charge Artist
Scenic Artist
Charge Artist
Charge Artist
Assistant Set Designer
ASM
Scenic Artist
Charge Artist
Charge Artist
Scenic Artist.
Charge Artist
Charge Artist
Charge Artist
Scenic Artist
Scenic Artist
Asst. Projection Des.
Scenic Artist
Scenic Artist
Dos Pueblos High School
Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara City College
Ensemble Theater Company
Santa Barbara City College
University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara City College
Laguna Blanca
Ensemble Theater Company
Ensemble Theater Company
Santa Barbara City College
Ensemble Theater Company
Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara City College University California, Santa Barbara
UCSB Opera
Dos Pueblos High School
Santa Barbara City College
Santa Barbara City College
Related Production Experience
2021
Paris 2017/8 Paris 2016 NYC 2016 NYC 2016 NYC 2016 NYC 2016 NYC 2015 NYC 2015 NYC 2014 NYC 2013 NYC 2013 NYC 2013 NYC 2013 NYC 2014 NYC 2013 NYC 2013
Director /Videographer
Illustrator, Graphic Designer Graphic Designer
Director, videographer
Director, videographer
Director, videographer
Director, videographer
Director, Projection designer Director, Projection designer Animation Design Assistant Scenic Artist
Scenic Artist
Scenic Artist
Scenic Artist
Projection Designer/Co-director
Videographer
Projection Designer
“Attn & Data”
“Atoms & Yves”
AWG
ASIA NOW
“Starscream”
“Sometimes”
“Brooklyn”
“Daydreamin’”
“Dignity: Video EP”
“Air Light: Video EP”
“Not Now nor Then”
“City and Colour Buzzsession” “Oberhoffer Buzzsession” “Shout Out Louds Buzzsession” “Stars Buzzsession”
“His and Hers” Tour
“Punk Rock Heart”
4-night CMJ Showcases
FiveSe7en Music
American Women’s Group
Paris Asian Art Fair 2nd edition FiveSe7en Music
FiveSe7en Music
The Brown Project
The Brown Project
Silence Breaks Records
Adesuwa Records
Children’s Museum of the Arts NY The Wild Honey Pie
The Wild Honey Pie
The Wild Honey Pie
The Wild Honey Pie
BKLYN 1834
Silence Breaks Records
Room 17 Studios