Kathleen Ritter is a Canadian/Irish visual artist, writer, researcher, and curator whose interdisciplinar practice spans photography, drawing, sound, video, and text. Her work critically engages with alternate and overlooked histories, focusing on systems of power, language, and technology, and how these structures shape collective memory and contemporar experience. Born in Canada of settler Anglo-Irish and German descent, Ritter lived and worked for year on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm Skwxwú7mesh and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh people peoples, where she was active as an artist and cultural organizer. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. In 2020, her public artwor Gaslight was installed in downtown Vancouver. She is currently based in Paris.