KATHARINE JOY HOUPT

katharinehoupt@gmail.com

IG: art_by_katharine

Education

2009 – 2011 Masters of Art in Art Therapy, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2003 – 2005 Bachelor of Art, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

2001 – 2003 Studied Film, Emerson College, Boston, MA

Selected Exhibitions

2026 (anticipated) Solo Exhibition, a creature who is aware of joy and despair and everything in between, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago

2025 Solo Exhibition, Works by Katharine Joy Houpt, BottlesUp!, Chicago

Faceted Fiber, Bridgeport Art Center 4th Flr Gallery, Chicago

Insight, Bridgeport Art Center 3rd Flr Gallery, Chicago

Palette of Voices, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago

Slow Down, Lost Larson, Chicago

26th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago

2024 Embrace of Comfort, Necessary and Sufficient Coffee, Chicago

Surfaces, Bridgeport Art Center 3rd Flr Gallery, Chicago

2023 Works on Paper, Artful Framer Studios, Chicago

Hygge, Artists on the Lam, online

Connections, Collage Artists of America, online

2022 Plein Air Painters Chicago Year-End Exhibition, Palette & Chisel, Chicago

Awards & Honors

2022 Marion Kryczka Excellence in Teaching Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2017 Best Paper Award, American Art Therapy Association

Related Work

2016 – 2026 Associate Professor, Adj., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2016 – current Art Therapist & Owner, Katharine Houpt Therapy PLLC

Publications

Gipson, L. & Houpt, K. (2026). Is there room for critical studies in art therapy? In [Johnstone, Morehead, & Wiltshire, Eds.] Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, Bloomsbury.

Houpt, K. & Te You Moore, V. (2026). Playing in the deep: Applying improvisational principles to therapy. In C. Moon (Ed.) Materials & Media in Art Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies., 2nd Ed. Routledge.

Houpt, K. (2026). Comics in Education as Critical Countervoice to Collective Trauma. In N. Carlton (Ed.) Illustrating Stories: Comics and Graphic Novels Use in Art Therapy, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Houpt, K. (unpublished, 2023). The Disruption of Isolation. In E., K. Precious Rubbish. Fantagraphics.

Houpt, K., Balkin, A., Broom, R., Roth, A., & Selma (2016). Anti-Memoir: Creating Alternate Nursing Home Narratives Through Zine Making. Art Therapy: Journal of the Art Therapy Association, 33(3).