Katy Kirbach

Katy Kirbach is a visual artist whose paintings draw on the histories of geometric abstraction and weaving, looking at the relationships between abstraction, craft, and so-called “women’s work”. She often begins a work by deconstructing and then re-weaving the canvas itself, questioning the assumed form and materiality of painting. Katy received her BA in Fine Art (2008) from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and her Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (2011) from the Royal Academy Schools, London. From 2012 to 2013, she was the Abbey Scholar in Painting at the British School at Rome, a prestigious 9-month residency awarded to emerging artists. From 2014 to 2018, Katy was a lecturer in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she taught courses in color theory as well as introductory, intermediate, and advanced painting. 

Since moving to Berlin in 2018, she has had more time to focus on her own studio, and has also had the opportunity to be an artist-in-residence at Villa Lena, Tuscany, and TekTrope, Istanbul. In 2020, she was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist grant. Her work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including RUSCHMAN, Chicago; salondergegenwart, Hamburg; The Green Gallery, Milwaukee; TekTrope, Istanbul; Bar4000, Chicago; Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm; the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, U.K.; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. 

Contact: 
Katy Kirbach
Visual Arts
k.kirbach[at]berlin.bard.edu