Kathie Halfin is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, born in Crimea, Ukraine, and raised in Israel. Her practice spans fiber media art, performance, and installation, addressing themes of migration, sustainability, and holistic healing practices. Engaging directly with her surroundings, Halfin weaves together the cultural and spiritual contexts, drawing from her immigrant journey, healing modalities, and personal mythos. Halfin’s work facilitates healing among humans and between humans and the Earth, fostering a sense of interconnectedness and repair.

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Her woven sculptures and multisensory performances create spaces for communication through tactile surfaces, scent, sound, natural elements, and fresh plants. Her work emphasizes interconnection, granting agency to plants and weaving together narratives that unite seemingly disparate realities.

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Halfin incorporates materials inspired by her surroundings and the environments she has lived in and visited. These material choices attribute meaning to her work, serving as sensory agents that evoke memories and establish new connections. More recently, she has focused on paper as a sculptural weaving material, spinning it into yarn that she dyes and weaves into three-dimensional sculptures. This slow, ritualistic process transforms generic processed paper into a material imbued with the imprint of hand touch and organic origins. This slow, ritualistic process reverses industrialized paper back into an organic, tactile state. The rhythmic nature of this practice echoes traditional hand-weaving techniques while subverting mass production, emphasizing a return to intimacy and presence in material-making.

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Throughout her practice, Halfin has learned from people, places, and ecosystems that have shared their knowledge with her. Her understanding of weaving—shaped by predecessors and mentors—extends beyond the conventional flat plane into fluid, three-dimensional structures. She explores the encoded qualities of cloth—its ability to expand, hold memory, and transform—using this material intelligence as a medium for storytelling and re-imagination of possible futures. 

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