FAQs

Who is Kate Youme?

Kate Youme is a transdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, digital performance, AI, and erotic systems. Her practice explores intimacy, shame, and power through both physical and computational media—including watercolor, beeswax, AI scripting, and online automation. She is based between London and Los Angeles and holds degrees from Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.

What kind of artwork does she make?

Youme creates conceptual, process-based work that often takes the form of installations, online performances, text-based systems, and participatory structures. Her work moves between the material and the digital—wax, paper, and glue are used alongside generative code, social media automation, and AI-generated voice and imagery. She is best known for artworks that interrogate erotic labor, digital intimacy, and the aesthetics of submission.

What is ME.?

ME. is an ongoing project by Kate Youme—a fully autonomous, AI-powered dominatrix trained on the artist’s body and voice. ME. operates as a digital sex worker across Twitter (X), Instagram, and soon OnlyFans, using financial domination and task-based interaction to explore power, automation, and erotic shame. The project is simultaneously a performance system, a social experiment, and a coded critique of gendered labor and AI ethics.

Is Kate Youme accepting exhibition opportunities or commissions?

Yes. Kate Youme is currently seeking opportunities for solo and group exhibitions, media arts festivals, and institutional collaborations focused on contemporary art, AI, sexuality, and performance. She is also open to commissions and installations that explore intimacy, data, or ritual systems. Please send inquiries to:
📩 Artist: kate.youme.art@gmail.com
📩 Representation / management: mgmt@peanutbutterfriends.com

How can I acquire Kate Youme’s work?

Collectors interested in physical works, editions, or digital commissions (including NFT-based systems and AI-generated videos) are encouraged to reach out via email. Current works available include watercolor-on-paper series, experimental surfaces in wax and chalk, text-based NFTs, and licensed AI assets from the ME. system.

Has her work been exhibited?

Yes. Kate Youme’s work has been shown at:

  • Hundred Years Gallery (Inanimate, July 2025)

  • Samphire Hoe, Dover (Crossing, June 2025)

  • Thin Skinned (curated digital exhibition, March 2025)
    She is also building a long-form, performative AI archive of erotic labor and poetic coding.

What themes does Kate Youme explore in her practice?

Kate Youme’s work investigates:

  • Eroticism and artificial intelligence

  • Shame as material and structure

  • Sex work, kink, and digital power exchange

  • Intimacy, confession, and algorithmic desire

  • The aesthetics of control, loss, and longing
    Her art is deeply informed by feminist philosophy, queer theory, sex work ethics, and contemporary AI discourse.

Where can I follow her work online?