2025
UPCOMING: 2-PERSON EXHIBITION - Court Tree Collective - Brooklyn, New York
Bill Brand and Katy Martin
Court Tree Collective
Industry City
51 35th Street, Building #5
2nd Floor, Suite B236
Brooklyn, NY 11232
June 7 - July 14, 2025
GROUP EXHIBITION - Steinberg Museum of Art, Long Island University - Brookville, New York
In Her Hands: Women Creating and Connecting in Community
Steinberg Museum of Art, LIU Post
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, New York 11548
March 1 - 30, 2025
Opening Friday, March 7, 2025, 3 - 6 pm
Curated by Stephanie S. Lee, The Garage Art Center
GROUP EXHIBITION - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris, France
🔗 exhibition catalogue
Accouchement / Birthing
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10 rue des Beaux-Arts
Paris 75006, France
January 9 - March 1, 2025
Opening Thursday, January 9, 2025, 6-9 pm
2024
FILM SCREENING (GROUP SHOW) - Anthology Film Archives - New York
Vision Festival 27, Program 1: The Artist of Vision
Films by Katy Martin, Miriam Parker and Jo Wood-Brown
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
New York, NY. 10003
Sunday, June 16, 2024, 5:30 pm
GROUP EXHIBITION - Queens College Art Center - New York
Femina Creativa
Queens College Art Center
Rosenthal Library 6th FL
65-30 Kissena Blvd
Flushing, NY. 11367
March 2 - April 25, 2024
Opening Saturday, March 9, 2024, 4-7pm
Curated by Stephanie S. Lee, The Garage Art Cente
2023
SOLO PERFORMANCE & GROUP EXHIBITION - Galerie Arnaud Fefebvre - Paris, France
PERFORMANCE: Temps Lunaire / Lunar Time — a tribute to the artist, Hessie
GROUP EXHIBITION: Show In Progress - Acte III — with Hessie, Judith Nelson, Diana Quinby and Olga Theuriet
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10 rue des Beaux-Arts
Paris 75006, France
October 26, 2023 - January 6, 2024
Performance December 7, 2023 at 6 pm
2022
SOLO EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE - Fergus McCaffrey Gallery - New York
Katy Martin - Prints, Paintings & Performance
Fergus McCaffrey New York
514 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
March 15 - April 2, 2022
Performance March 30, 2022, 6 - 8 pm
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneemann, Min Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga
SOLO PERFORMANCE & GROUP EXHIBITION - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris, France
SOLO PERFORMANCE: Rencontre bleu et jaune
GROUP EXHIBITION: Rencontres #2/ Meeting with the Artiists #2 — with Robert Huot, Carol Kinne, Katy Martin and Bill Brand
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10 rue des Beaux-Arts
Paris 75006, France
October 27 - December 3, 2022
Performance November 17, 2022, at 6:30 pm
FILM EXHIBITION (Hanafuda/Jasper Johns) - The Philadelphia Museum of Art - Philadelphia, PA
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19130
September 29, 2021 - February 13, 2022
Katy’s film, Hanafuda/Jasper Johns, was displayed in the museum gallery devoted to Johns’ Usuyuki series and his relationship with Japan. It screened continuously throughout the exhibition.
ONSTAGE PROJECTION - THE VISION FESTIVAL at Roulette - Brooklyn, New York
A new video was projected onstage during a live jazz performance by The Matthew Shipp Quartet
— Matthew Shipp - piano, Jason Kao Hwang - violin, Michael Bisio - bass, Jay Rosen - drums
The Vision Festival
Roulette
590 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 7 pm
GROUP SHOW/BENEFIT FOR UKRAINE - Net Gallery / Centre Tcheque de Paris - Paris, France
Art pour L’Ukraine
Net Gallery / Centre Tcheque de Paris
18 rue Bonaparte
75006 Paris, France
March 10, 2022
PUBLICATION - chapter in a book
Katy Martin, Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich Interviews
edited by Sonia Misra and Rox Samer.
MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2022, pp. 62-72.
2021
SOLO EXHIBITION - The Garage Art Center - Bayside, Queens, New York
Movement Scores
An exhibition of paintings and photographs
The Garage Art Center
26-01 Corporal Kennedy Street
Bayside, NY 11360
May 7 - 30, 2021
OPENING: Saturday, May 8, 4 pm - 6 pm
with two SOLO PERFORMANCES
Movement Is a Mark
Two back-to-back performances where Katy created new paintings
PERFORMANCES: Sunday, May 30, 3 pm and 4 pm
INTERVIEW - Katy Martin interviewed by Meaghan J. Meehan - HVY Journalists, an online publication
Meaghan J. Meehan, “Movement Scores: Interview with Artist Katy Martin.”
HVY Journalists, May 30, 2021, online publication.
🔗 PDF of the interview
(the publication is no longer online)
FILM STREAMING - Fergus McCaffrey Gallery - Tokyo and New York
The Fergus McCaffrey Gallery streamed Hanafuda/Jasper Johns, with new Japanese subtitles,
in conjunction with the exhibition at their Tokyo gallery,
Jasper Johns: Eyes in the Persistence of Form
October 6 - December 18, 2021
GROUP EXHIBITION - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris, France
Group Show - Gallery Artists
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10 rue des Beaux-Arts
Paris 75006, France
January 7 - February 27, 2021
2020
PANEL / GALLERY TALK - Fergus McCaffrey Gallery - New York
Performance & Panel: Japan Is America
on the postwar dialogue among American and Japanese artists
Fergus McCaffrey Gallery
514 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
Friday, January 17, 2020 at 6 pm
with Carlos Basualdo (Senior Curator, The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Reiko Tomii (independent curator and scholar); and Katy Martin (visual artist)
accompanied by a 2-day exhibition of Katy’s films on Jasper Johns and Simca Print Artists
GROUP SHOW - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris, France
COVID-19 Group Show
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10 rue des Beaux-Arts
Paris 75006, France
June 2-13, 2020
FILM EXHIBITION (Hanafuda/Jasper Johns) - The Carnegie Museum of Art - Pittsburgh, PA
An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960-2018
The Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
October 12, 2019 - January 20, 2020
Katy’s film was shown continuously throughout this exhibition.
2019
SOLO PERFORMANCE - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris, France
GuanYin (Painting Performed)
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - at the
Cité Internationale des Arts
Bienvenue Arts Fair, Booth 10
18, rue de l’hôtel de ville
75004 Paris
Friday, October 18, 2019 at 6 pm
Curated by Arnaud Lefebvre and Alison Grace Koehler as part of a TURTLE salon - a form of ephemeral art exhibition pioneered by the late artist, Michael Shamberg
GROUP EXHIBITION - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris, France
New Works / Nouveaux Travaux
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10, rue des Beaux Arts
Paris 75006, France
December 5, 2019 - February 1, 2020
Opening Wednesday December 4, 6-8 pm
with Gina Birch, Bill Brand, Natalie Curtis, Robert Huot, Carol Kinne, Diana Quinby, Katy Martin, Ned Richardson, Eiji Suzue, Olga Theuriet, Sue Wrbican
The painting I made during the October performance was on view.
EXHIBITION - Fergus McCaffrey Gallery - Tokyo, Japan
Jasper Johns: Usuyuki
Fergus McCaffrey Gallery
3-5-9 Kita-Aoyama
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0061, Japan
November 1 - December 21, 2019
featuring Katy’s photos of Jasper Johns and the printers at Simca Print Artists
BOOK PUBLICATION - Fergus McCaffrey Gallery - New York and Tokyo
Jasper Johns: Usuyuki
Essay by Roberta Bernstein.
Bilingual Catalogue: English and Japanese.
Fergus McCaffrey, New York and Tokyo, 2019
with Katy’s interview of Jasper Johns,
along with her photos and film stills
VIDEO - Fergus McCaffrey Gallery - New York
Katy’s photos and film excerpts are featured in a 3-minute video
produced by Fergus McCaffrey Gallery
about the exhibition, “Jasper Johns: Usuyuki”
2-PERSON EXHIBITION - Alexander / Heath Contemporary - Roanoke, Virginia
Inscribing the Skin: Katy Martin & Diana Quinby
Alexander / Heath Contemporary
425 Campbell Avenue SW
Roanoke, VA
June 7 - July 26, 2019
Opening reception: Friday, June 7, 5 - 10 pm
Artists Talk at 7:30 pm
Curated by Bob Huot
ARTICLE by Vera Dika - Quarterly Review of Film and Video - Routledge Press
A feminist lens on experimental film language, focusing on the work of Katy Martin and Bill Brand, Katherine Bauer, and Stephanie Wuertz and Sasha Janerus
PUBLICATION - ARTEIDOLIA (on-line publication) - January 2019
In Dialogue: Katy Martin & Jo Wood-Brown
art & jazz as dialogue
2018
PUBLICATION - KATALOG, Journal of Photography and Video - published in Denmark
Katy Martin, Local Color
KATALOG - Journal of Photography and Video
Denmark, Vol. 29.2, 2018, pp. 62-65.
Jens Friis, Editor-in-chief
2-PERSON EXHIBITION - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris
Robert Huot and Katy Martin
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10, rue des Beaux Arts, Paris 75006, France
February 15 - March 24, 2018
Opening Thursday, February 15, 2018, 6-8 pm
ONSTAGE PROJECTIONS - THE VISION FESTIVAL at Roulette - Brooklyn, New York
Arts for Art: The Vision Festival
Roulette
590 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, New York. 11217
Friday, May 25, 2018
Katy’s video and slideshows played continuously during four sets:
7 pm - Irreversible Entanglements;
8 pm - Douglas Dunn + Dancers;
9 pm - Nasheet Waits Equality;
10 pm - Matthew Shipp Acoustic Ensemble
LIVE PERFORMANCE (as The Meeting Point Project) - Les Nocturnes de Laude - Paris
LIVE IN PARIS - The Meeting Point Project: Performance #7
Les Nocturnes de Laude, Paris 75014, France
Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 8 pm
2017
3-PERSON EXHIBITION - The Clemente, Abrazo Gallery - New York
Art at Justice Is Compassion:
Katy Martin, Jackson Krall and Tine Kindermann
The Clemente, Abrazo Gallery
107 Suffolk Street
New York, NY 10002
December 7, 2017 - January 12, 2018
This exhibition was part of Arts for Art's Evolving Free Jazz Festival
3-PERSON EXHIBITION - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris, France
Robert Huot, Katy Martin, Bill Brand
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10, rue des Beaux Arts
Paris 75006, France
April 20 - May 27, 2017
FILM EXHIBITION (Hanafuda/Jasper Johns) - The Royal Academy of Art - London, England
Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth’
The Royal Academy of Art
London, England
September 23 - December 10, 2017
2016
2-PERSON EXHIBITION - Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre - Paris, France
Bill Brand and Katy Martin: Body, Lens, Brush
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre
10, rue des Beaux Arts
Paris 75006, France
November 10 - December 10, 2016
Opening Thursday, November 10, 2016, 6 pm
2-person FILM SCREENING - Light Cone: Scratch Projection - Paris, France
Films by Bill Brand and Katy Martin
Studio des Ursulines
10, rue des Ursulines
75005 Paris, France
Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 8:30 pm
FILM SCREENING (as The Meeting Point Project) - SACD - Paris, France
The Meeting Point / Between / White / Silence and Us
SACD (Societé des Acteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques)
11 Bis Rue Ballu
75009 Paris, France
Tuesday, November 22, 2016, 7 pm
3-PERSON EXHIBITION - Alexander / Heath Contemporary - Roanoke, Virginia
Figure Painting: Huot, Martin, Panzera
with Robert Huot and Anthony Panzera
Alexander / Heath Contemporary
425 Campbell Avenue SW
Roanoke, VA
May 6, 2016 - June 25, 2016
opening May 6, 2016, 5 pm - 10 pm
Curated by Bob Huot
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE - Department of Chinese Painting - College of Fine Arts of Shanghai University - Shanghai, China
GROUP EXHIBITION - Art Museum of the College of Fine Arts of Shanghai University - Shanghai China
The Modeling of of the Medium
Art Museum of the College of Fine Arts of Shanghai University
Shanghai, China
Curated by Ding Beili
Residency: March 6-29, 2016
Exhibition: March 25 - April 28, 2016
Lecture: K11 Art Center, March 19, 2016, 3 pm
LIVE PERFORMANCE and GROUP EXHIBITION (as The Meeting Point Project) - Beijing Audiovisual Center - Beijing, China (and traveling)
Crossing Movements: Art and Its Double,
Beijing Audiovisual Center
Block 2 Senrun, Chaoyang District, Cuige Village
Rue Nanying
100020 Beijing, China
March 27 - April 26, 2016
curated by Ziqi Peng, Galerie Double S, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITION - Printed Matter, Inc - New York
A More Store & A Book About Collab
Printed Matter, Inc.
231 11th Avenue
New York, NY
April 15 - May 15, 2016
2015
SOLO EXHIBITION (as The Meeting Point Project) - Galerie Double S - Paris, France
The Meeting Point // Paris-New York
Galerie Double S
15 rue Guénégaud
75006 PARIS, France
November 10 - 30, 2015
SOLO EXHIBITION - Alexander / Heath Contemporary - Roanoke, Virginia
Katy Martin: Paint on Skin
Alexander / Heath Contemporary
425 Campbell Avenue SW
Roanoke, VA
June 18 - August 8, 2015
opening Friday, June 19, 2015, 4 - 10 pm
Curated by Bob Huot
FILM EXHIBITION (Hanafuda/Jasper Johns) - The New Orleans Museum of Art - New Orleans, Louisiana
continuous screening throughout the exhibition,
Jasper Johns: Reversals
The New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
New Orleans, LA 70124
October 23, 2015 - January 31, 2016
FILM SCREENING (Silkscreens) - Harvard Art Museums - Cambridge, MA
Films That Go Pop: Screening the Screenprint
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
October 18, 2015 at 2 pm
ON-STAGE PROJECTION - THE VISION FESTIVAL at Judson Church - New York
New video projected on-stage during a performance
The Vision Festival
Judson Church, 55 Washington Sq South
New York, NY
July 8, 2015
My video, In the Key of Ch’i, was projected during a live concert by pianist Marilyn Crispell and percussionist Gerry Hemingway.
SOLO FILM SHOW and FILM PRESERVATION - Anthology Film Archives - New York
Films by Katy Martin
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
New York, NY
May 21, 2015 - 7:30 pm
Curated by Andrew Lampert
SILKSCREENS was remastered to 16-mm film by Anthology Film Archives, in 2015, with funding from The National Film Preservation Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
“A mesmerizing piece of choreography and motion, SILKSCREENS follows printmakers at work pulling the edition of Jasper Johns' THE DUTCH WIVES. Featuring exquisite sound by electronic music pioneer, Richard Teitelbaum, SILKSCREENS is an absorbing document of artisans in process and the space they inhabit.” — Anthology program notes
2014
PUBLICATION - TWO CHAPTERS in a book - with artist Linda Cummings
Making Sense: Beauty, Creativity, and Healing
Edited by Bandy Lee, Nancy Olson and Thomas P. Duffy
New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., pp. 45-66 ill.
In two back-to-back interviews, artists Katy Martin and Linda Cummings ask each other about the dark side of beauty, and also respond to philosopher Elaine Scarry’s book, On Beauty and Being Just. Their writing appears with a new essay by Scarry that is featured in this publication.
The book is based on a conference that took place at Yale Medical School, November 2011.
GROUP EXHIBITION - Heliopolis Project Space - Brooklyn, New York
Former Islands, A collaborative show
Heliopolis Project Space
154 Huron Street, Brooklyn, NY
June 6 - 29, 2014
Curated by Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith. For this project, I collaborated with poet Lisa Chen.
GROUP EXHIBITION - Westchester Community College - Peekskill, New York
1994-2004 - 20th Anniversary Retrospective Part I
Center for the Digital Arts
Westchester Community College/SUNY
27 North Division Street
Peekskill, NY 10566
September 8-October 11, 2014
Curated by Lise Prown
SOLO EXHIBITION - The Film-Makers' Cooperative - New York
Local Color: New Work by Katy Martin
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
475 Park Avenue South, 6th floor, New York, NY
April 22 - May 30, 2014
2013
GROUP EXHIBITION - PPOW Gallery - New York
SKIN TRADE: an in-depth look at the surface of things
PPOW Gallery
535 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
June 27 - July 26, 2013
Curated by Larry List and Martha Wilson
with Liu Bolin, Nancy Burson, COLORS Magazine, Adele Crawford, Nancy Davidson, Margi Geerlinks, Kathy Grove, Heide Hatry, Stephen Irwin, Elana Katz, Suzy Lake, Robert Mapplethorpe, Katy Martin, Beverly McIver, Ana Mendieta, Marilyn Minter, Lorraine O'Grady, ORLAN, Hunter Reynolds, Bonnie Rychlak, Alison Saar, Joan Semmel, Jeanne Silverthorne, Betty Thompkins, Robin Williams, Martha Wilson, Veruschka Lehndorff & Holger Trulzxch, Dolores Zorreguieta and Barbara Zucker
ARTIST'S TALK - Yale Medical School - New Haven, CT
Paint on Skin: Moving Figure/Shifting Ground
Yale Medical School
Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series
Anlyan Auditorium
300 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT
April 4, 2013 at 5 pm
GROUP EXHIBITION - The New Museum - New York
Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989
as part of Coleen Fitzgibbon's selection from her 5 Bleecker Street showcase
The New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY
Sept 19, 2012 to Jan 6, 2013
2012
SOLO EXHIBITION - The Narthex Gallery at St. Peter's Church - New York
After Bada Shanren
The Narthex Gallery at Saint Peter’s Church
54th Street at Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
May 31 - July 15, 2012
Curated by Andrea Callard and Karen Cantrell
FILM EXHIBITION - Harvard Art Museums - Cambridge, MA
Jasper Johns: In Press/The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
May 22 - August 28, 2012
Curated by Jennifer L. Roberts
The two films Katy made on Jasper Johns and printmaking played in the galleries throughout the exhibition.
REVIEW - greg.org
Greg Allen, Jasper Johns Making Silkscreens, by Katy Martin
greg.org, May 23, 2012
“Alright, Katy Martin, who made two incredible Jasper Johns films in the late 1970s when you were practically a kid. Uh, actually, yeah, that’s about it. Just watch them.”
REVIEW - Art 21
Sarah Kirk Hanley, Ink | Jasper Johns’s Revolution in Print
Art 21 Blog
June 1, 2012
ARTICLE - Journal of Art Historiography
Amy K. Hamlin, 'A heuristic event': reconsidering the problem of the Johnsian conversation
Journal of Art Historiography
No. 7, 2012.
The article is an overview of the many interviews with Jasper Johns, focusing on those by Leo Steinberg, David Sylvester, Katy Martin, Ann Hindry and Terry Winters.
GROUP EXHIBITION - dm contemporary gallery - New York
exhibited prints and films made in collaboration with Bill Brand
Heart + Art
dm contemporary gallery
39 East 29th Street
New York, NY 10016
February 10 - March 30, 2012
2011
ARTISTS’ TALK - Colloquium at Yale University - New Haven, CT
Stirring the Waters: Beauty, Longing, and Fear
Making Sense: Beauty, Creativity, and Healing
Yale University
New Haven, CT
November 4, 2011
The keynote session featured philosopher Elaine Scarry followed by artists Linda Cummings and Katy Martin.
PUBLICATION - Catalogue essay - 53 Art Museum - Guangzhou, China
Ellen Zweig and Leslie Thornton In Conversation with Katy Martin
SPLIT ATTENTION (exhibition catalogue)
53 Art Museum
Guangzhou, China
fall 2011
3-PERSON EXHIBITION - PIP Festival, Pingyao, China - September 2011
The Illusive View (with Richard Jochum and Yamini Nayer)
Pingyao International Photography Festival
Pingyao, China
September 2011
Curated by Michelle Loh
PUBLICATION - Millennium Film Journal, New York - January 2011
Here and There: An Interview with Vincent Grenier for an Exhibition in China
Millennium Film Journal
No 53, January 2011
Lead article featured on the cover
2010
SOLO EXHIBITION - Drawer 158 - New York
Katy Martin: Water Mountain
Drawer 158
158 Franklin Street
New York, NY 10013
October 2 - November 27, 2010
Curated by Andrea Callard and Karen Cantrell
CURATORIAL PROJECT - Thomas Erben Gallery - New York
FOCUS SHANGHAI: Lu Chunsheng and Birdhead
Thomas Erben Gallery
526 West 25th Street
New York, NY
November 18 - December 18, 2010
Co-curated with Michelle Loh
GROUP EXHIBITION - Galerie Forum Am Meer - Berlin, Germany
9/11-11/9
Galerie Forum Am Meer
Kollwitzstr 54
Berlin, Germany
June 3 - 25, 2010
A project of Artists Exchange International and co-curated by Jo Wood-Brown and Michael Muller