Katie Kaplan (b.1989, Pittsburgh, PA) is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. In her multi-disciplinary practice, a core focus on printmaking expands into sculpture, textiles, video and installation. Kaplan currently works as the studio technician in the Fibers and Material Studies Department at Tyler School of Art, where she also maintains a natural dye garden. She is frequently involved in applying her artistic labor to cultural organizing, activist art and mutual aid projects, work that is intrinsic to her practice as a whole.
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Contact: kkpennysmasher@gmail.com
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Education
2011- BFA in Sculpture, with Outstanding Merit Award, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
2007- Pittsburgh CAPA High School, Visual Arts with Honors, Pittsburgh, PA.
2005- Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, Sculpture, Erie PA
Solo Exhibitions
2023- Wind Challenge Exhibition Series, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA.
2019- A Spell for Frivolity, 40th St. AIRSPACE, Philadelphia, PA
2018- Interior Flora, C.R. Ettinger Studio Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2017- Sibylline Window, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA.
2014- Resident Project Artist Exhibition, Artists Image Resource. Pittsburgh, PA.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023- I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws, 2023–2024 Winter Exhibition, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.
2023- The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox), Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, New York, NY.
2023- Message Received, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA.
2023- Sites, John H. Baker Gallery, West Chester University, West Chester, PA.
2022- Unfinished: New Prints Winter 2022, International Print Center New York, NY.
2021- Artists of the Queer Materials Lab, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia,PA
2020- Pinch- Hitter Projects: Bottom of the 9th, public/residential textile exhibition, Philadelphia, PA.
2019-2023 The Queer Ecology Hanky Project, White Page Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination, Pittsburgh, PA and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY.
2019- Irreversibility of Time, Christine Frechard Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
2019- Witness, G1/CW, Pittsburgh, PA
2019- Misprints, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD
2018- Under the Blankets: Printmakers Together, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2017- WE HAVE THE FUTURE, 40th ST AIRSPACE,, Philadelphia, PA.
2017- Surface Forms: The Apprentice Training Programs 2014-2016, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
2016- Reimagining Magical Realism, Jask Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
2016- Reverberations, Stella Elkins Gallery, Tyler School of Art. Philadelphia, PA.
2015- The Green Show, Art X Detroit, Ocelot Print Shop, Detroit, MI.
2015- Teaching Artist Exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for The Arts, Pittsburgh, PA.
2014- Another World, New Orleans Community Print Shop, New Orleans, LA.
2013- Three Artists, The Wherehouse, Pittsburgh, PA.
2012- Library, Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL.
2012- PRINTWORK 2012, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA.Curated by Nicholas Chambers
2011- Anti-Body Odyssey, BFA Sculpture Thesis Show, The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010- What is Sustainability?, The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Honorable Mention. Curated by Julie Lasky, Nick Battis, and Deb Johnson
2009- Willoughby Windows, AD HOC ART Public Installation at 88-106 Willoughby ave, Brooklyn, NY.
Awards/Residencies
2022- Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.
2020- Queer Materials Lab Resident Artist, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2019- Artist-in-Residence, 40th Street AIR, Philadelphia, PA.
2018- Denbo Fellowship, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, Maryland.
2016- The Cindi Royce Ettinger Fellowship, Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA.
2016- Full Time College and Post-Graduate Apprentice Training Program, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
2014- Deconstructing Boxcar Bertha, West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival. Award of Distinction.
2012- Artist Image Resource, Project Artist Residency Award. Pittsburgh, PA
2010- Haskell Travel Grant, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Performances
2015- Cowboy Moon Dance, Trans-Q LIVE!, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.Performances Curated by Suzie Silver, Adil Mansoor, and Scott Andrew.
2015- Layne James and the Bang Gang, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
Artist Talks/Presentations/Workshops
2023- Guest Critic, Senior Printmaking, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
2023- Visiting Artist Lecture, Advanced Printmaking, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2023- Community Care for Digital Looms, Roundtable Presentation, Praxis and Practice Digital Weaving Conference, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.
2022- Critical Dialogue: Joni Sullivan and Katie Kaplan, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA.
2022- New Prints Artist Conversation, International Print Center New York, NY.
2021- Hello Again with Katie Kaplan, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2021- Workshop: Natural Dye Magic with Katie Kaplan, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2020- Social Activism through Art: Printmaking for Liberation, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA.
2020- Natural Dye Presentation, Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers, Philadelphia, PA.