Kate Youme – Trans Media, Conceptual Artist
kate.youme.art@gmail.com
www.meyoumademe.com
Instagram: @kate.youme

Bio

Kate Youme is an interdisciplinary artist working across material performance and digital systems. Her practice investigates intimacy, erotic labor, and the aesthetics of control—often merging analog processes like wax, paper, and watercolor with code, automation, and AI. Youme’s work engages emerging technologies not as novelty, but as tools to unearth shame, seduction, and the politics of power. She lives and works between London and Los Angeles

Education

MA Fine Art – Royal College of Art, London
BA Fine Art – Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Selected Exhibitions

2025
Inanimate – Hundred Years Gallery, London (Group Exhibition)
July 26–28, 2025
Curated by Olivia Andrews. A show investigating agency, objecthood, and techno-intimacy.

Crossing – Samphire Hoe, Dover (Group Exhibition, Summer Solstice Festival)
June 21–22, 2025
Organized with Bee Friendly Trust. Site-responsive works on migration, land, ecology, and transformation.

Thin Skinned – Online (Group Exhibition)
March 2025
Curated digital program focused on intimacy, soft technologies, and boundary erosion in contemporary practice.

Notable Projects

Apology Period (2023)
A series of layered paintings exploring romantic identity, ownership, and apology. Developed during the artist’s “coming out,” the project merges confessional practice with physical processes of layering, erasure, concealment and identity apology.

A Sext & Response (2024)
A live text-based archive of real erotic texts and replies. Drawing on personal encounters, the project explores the poetics of desire and digital confession. Presented as a looping NFT format and erotic call-and-response, it asks how intimacy and shame mutates under 21st-century technological pressure.

ME. (you) Made Me (2025–ongoing)
An autonomous AI-powered dominatrix trained on the artist’s image. ME. functions as both performance system and digital sex worker, using algorithmic FinDom interaction to extract data and explore the intersections of power, shame, and artificial intimacy across X, Instagram, and OnlyFans.

The Permanent Removal of Things That are Precious, (2026)
A project investigating the cultural symbolism of female body hair. The artist’s own beloved hair was ritually removed and transformed into a lab-grown diamond—converting stigma into permanence, shame into luxury, and bodily autonomy into material artifact.