Katherine Spinella is a visual artist, educator, and director of Well Well Projects, an artist-run gallery in Portland, Oregon. Their practice weaves together individual studio work, collaborative experiential and interactive projects, and community organizing. As a collage-based artist, Spinella uses printmaking, digital tools, and sculpture to mediate the structures of the attention economy and digital culture to reflect on our relationships with the more-than-human world. Guided by themes within Posthumanist theory and a poetic approach, their work investigates how images, language, and symbols shape our collective understanding of time, labor, and care, forming a practice that engages with open-ended questions rather than definitive answers. Through playful, free-associative processes, they construct new narratives that raise questions about how we consume and relate to images and symbols—transforming the refuse of commerce and everyday life into acts of renewal.

Spinella is a co-organizer of Form.a, an art press fair, and Thunderstruck Collective, a nomadic artist residency project, as well as a founder of Carnation Contemporary, a regional artist-run gallery. Her work has been supported by the Ford Family Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Portland State University, Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute, and Women's Studio Workshop. Recent exhibitions include Sleepless Nights at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, WA; Inner Sun and Dandelion at Well Well Projects in Portland, OR; Summer Sampler at Museum of Museums in Seattle, WA; and inclusion in the 2023–24 Pacific Northwest Drawers at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR. Spinella’s work is featured in the Soho House Art Collection and is currently on view at Soho House Portland.

As an educator, Spinella serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art Practice Program at Portland State University. She is an activist member of the Portland State University Faculty Association, actively supporting union efforts and advocating for equitable labor practices. Spinella is currently enrolled part-time in PSU’s Graduate Teacher Education Program and studies Italian at Scuola Italiana di Portland.