NADA Miami 2025: Katie Butler, Lizzie Gill, Katherine Vetne, and Xiao Wang

Katie Butler (b. 1995, Akron, OH) is a painter based in Akron, Ohio. Her allegorical still life paintings provide critical commentary on the financial disparities in American society. Recent exhibitions include the Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI; Tchotchke Gallery, New York, NY; Steven Zevita Gallery, Boston, MA; Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Butler received her BFA from the University of Akron in 2017 and her MFA from Kent State University in 2021.

Katherine Vetne's (b. 1987, MA) still life-based practice merges themes of high craft, art history, consumerism, and gender. She received a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). She is the recipient of SFAI’s Graduate Fellowship in Painting, the Allan B. Stone Award, and an Individual Artist Commission grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Vetne has exhibited her work at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles; Samson Projects and 808 Gallery in Boston, MA; Catharine Clark Gallery, CCA Hubbell Street Galleries, and 2nd floor projects, in San Francisco, CA. In 2021 her work was included in Crafting America, a major craft survey exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, curated by Glenn Adamson and Jen Padgett. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Vetne currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Lizzie Gill (b. 1989, New York, NY) is a multimedia artist whose work explores themes of domesticity in a contemporary context. Gill has been exhibited recently at Ryan Lee, New York, NY; Aicon Gallery, New York, NY; Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent, CT; Geary Contemporary, Millerton, NY, among others. Her recent residencies include the Wassaic Project and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work is held in noted private and public collections including The Bunker Artspace, Palm Beach, Johnson & Johnson and Fidelity. She lives and works in Sharon, CT.

Xiao Wang (b. 1990, Beijing, China) is a figurative painter primarily working with oil paint. Wang’s work combines dramatic and moody color palettes with a realism approach. He creates constructed scenes from photographs of still lifes, foliage, interior spaces, landscapes, himself, his friends, and loved ones. The content of Wang’s work is rooted in his observation of everyday life, and is heightened by atmospheres, emotions, and symbolisms. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art where he received his BFA degree in Painting and Printmaking. He continued his study at San Francisco Art Institute and earned his MFA degree in Painting. Wang has shown internationally in Europe and The United States. He has been featured in publications including Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Elephant Magazine, Booooooom, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz Magazine, and New American Paintings. Wang’s work is included in public collections such as X museum (China) and HSBC Collection (UK). Wang currently lives and works in New York, NY.