Baker Artist Portfolios

Katie Pumphrey is an American contemporary artist, living and working in Baltimore, MD. Pumphrey has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has participated in artist residencies at the Studios of Key West, Vermont Studio Center, Gallery Four, and the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. Pumphrey is also a long distance, open water swimmer — she has swam the English Channel 2x (2015, 2022), around the island of  Manhattan in 2017, and the Catalina Channel in 2018. Those three swims make up the Triple Crown of open water swimming, adding her to a elite group of open water swimmers from around the world. This aspect of her life continues to influence and drive her work.