Nelly Kate

Nelly Kate (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist creating space for public imagination through time-based media, print, and the lens of Queer and Deaf experience. Nelly grew up in the American South, where she established a career in music and sound design. Her early work led her to tour nationally and to share the stage with artists such as tUnE-yArDs, Mirah, Stephen Vitiello, and Angel Olsen. She gradually expanded her engagement with the public beyond performance into installations of oral history projects, interactive sculpture, and itinerant walks.

In 2015, Nelly turned her focus to inaudible sound—exploring captions, sonic visualizations, and haptics. During her MFA candidacy at Cranbrook Academy of Art (2021), she developed a technique for utilizing suminagashi marbling and fluid cymatics to make ‘sound prints’.

She’s currently a resident at Boston Center for the Arts and contributing to a performance directed by Fayen d’Evie for Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Check out Nelly’s website and follow her on Instagram.