Photo by Bonnie Berry Photography
BIOGRAPHY
Katy Horan is an illustrator and fine artist with a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design (2003). Her work has exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada. It has been published in a number of books including Fantagraphic's Beasts! and The Exquisite Book (Chronicle Books) and Dark Inspiration II (Victionary), as well as in numerous publications such as Juxtapoz Magazine and New American Paintings (no. 90 & 120). She has completed two painting residencies at The Vermont Studio Center and was a finalist for the 2015 Hunting Art Prize. She is also the illustrator of Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers , written by Taisia Kitaiskaia and published by Seal Press. Katy is represented by Adriann Ranta Zurhellen at Foundry Literary and Media.
She lives in Austin, Tx with her husband, daughter and two dogs.
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Born 1980, Houston, TX
Lives and works in Austin, TX
Education
2003
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Illustration
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2014
Goodly/Wicked: The Contemporary Austin Crit Group, Grayduck Gallery, Austin Tx
Katy Horan: New Works, Flatcolor Gallery, Seattle, Wa
For the Sake of Being(s) (with Katherine Rutter), LeQuiVive Gallery, Oakland, Ca
2012
Keep Your Arms From Going Astray, Domy Books, Houston, Tx
2011
Bloom & Gloom (with Alexis Mackenzie), Swarm Gallery, Oakland, Ca
2010
Lady Monsters, Domy Books, Austin, TX
2008
In the Deep Dark..., Gallery Anno Domini, San Jose,CA
2006
Folkadelic, Paperboat Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
Goodly/Wicked: The Contemporary Austin Crit Group, Grayduck Gallery, Austin, Tx
February Group Exhibition, Flatcolor Gallery, Seattle, Wa
2013
The Singing Bone, Grayduck Gallery, Austin, Tx
MPath, Gallery [1], Texas State University, San Marcos, Tx
2011
Three Knocks, Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
The Texas Biennial: an independent survey of contemporary Texas art, Austin, Tx
2010
The Dazzle, Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
Hand Over Fist, VASF, San Francisco, CA
2009
Winter Group Show, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco,CA
Little Crowns, Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
Fata Morgana: the new female fantasists, Dabora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Group Sects, Giant Robot Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tides of March, Giant Robot Gallery, New York, NY
Residencies/Awards
2015
The Hunting Art Prize, Finalist
2012
The Vermont Studio Center, Full Month Painting Residency and partial grant recipient, June
2011
Art Takes Miami, Design & Illustration category winner and grant recipient
Texas Biennial, Selected Artist
2010
K Space Contemporary, Selected Artist, Third Coast National
Arthouse at the Jones Center, Selected Artist, Studio Visit Program
2009
The Vermont Studio Center, Full Month Painting Residency, June
Rolf Contemporary Gallery, Artist Rep Services Grant
Bibliography
2017
Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, Seal Press
2016
Dark Inspiration II, Victionary
2015
New American Paintings, No. 120
2011
Drawn In, Quarry Books
2010
New American Paintings, No. 90
The Exquisite Book, Chronicle Books
2009
The Lifted Brow no. 6
2008
King Brown Magazine, Australia, March
Juxtapoz Magazine, March
2007
Cafe Royal, issue one
2006
Beasts!, Fantagraphics Books