Katy Moran Explained
Katy Moran (born 1975) is an English contemporary artist whose work is in the collection of the Arts Council and the Government Art Collection.[1] Moran is represented by Stuart Shave/Modern Art and the Andrea Rosen Gallery.[2]
Moran's first solo exhibition was for Stuart Shave/Modern Art, in London, 2006. She has also exhibited at Andrea Rosen Gallery,[3] Wexner Center for the Arts,[4] and the Walker Art Center.[5] Her latest is at the Parasol Unit, 2015.[6]
Early life and education
Moran is from Manchester with her parents being art teachers.[7] She graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1998 with a BA Hons degree in Graphic Art. She received an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in 2005.[1]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
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- 2006: Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurie, France.
- 2008: Katy Moran: Paintings, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK; Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, USA; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City.
- 2009: Contemporary Fine and Applied Arts: 1928–2009, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK; Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Galleria II Capricorno, Venice, Italy.
- 2010: Six Solos, Katy Moran, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
- 2011: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City.
- 2013: Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, UK.
- 2015: Katy Moran, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London;Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City
- 2017: Modern Art, London
- 2019: I want to live in the afternoon of that day, Sperone Westwater, New York City
Group exhibitions
- 2005: Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, (Art Review magazine prize), London; Peculiar Encounters, Ec Artspace, London; New London Kicks, The Wooster Project, New York City; Morpho Eugenia, Museo di Stato, San Marino, Italy; MA Show, Royal College of Art, London; Man Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London.
- 2006: A Broken Arm, 303 Gallery, New York City; New Contemporaries 2006, London and Liverpool, UK (touring); Young Painters, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Deurle, Belgium; Primetime Painting: Young Art from London, Galerie Seitz, Berlin, Germany; Sunset in Athens II, Vamialis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
- 2007: Dining Room Show, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City; Old Space New Space, Gagosian Gallery, New York City; The Painting Show: Slipping Abstraction, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Salon Nouveau, Galerie Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna, Austria.
- 2008: Art Now: Strange Solution, Tate Britain, London; Selections from the Orvitz Family Collection, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
- 2009: Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London; We're Moving, Royal College of Art, London; Surface Reality, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Contemporary Fine Arts and Applied Arts: 1928–2009, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK; Cave Painting, Gresham's Ghost, New York City.
- 2010: Tasters' Choice, Stephen Friedman, London; Le Tableau, Cheim & Read, New York City; Feint Art, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
- 2011: Le Magasin-CNAC (Centre National d'Art Contemporain), Grenoble, France; Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
- 2012: The Far and the Near: Replaying Art in St Ives, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK; Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA.
- 2013: A Personal Choice, by Bruna Aickelin, Galleria II Capricorno, Venice, Italy; Lloyds Club, London; Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Inevitable Figuration, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
- 2014: Somos Libres II. Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Gianni e Marella, Agnelli, Turin, Italy
- 2015: Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People. A selection by Jennifer Higgie from The Arts Council Collection (England), Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds; Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland; The Atkinson, Southport; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA
- 2016: Theories of Modern Art, Modern Art, London
- 2018: Summer Exhibition, Modern Art, London; Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London; Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings, Tate St Ives, Cornwall; travelling to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Collections
- Arts Council Collection, London
- David Roberts Art Foundation, London
- Government Art Collection, London
- Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy
- Royal College of Art, London
- Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA
- Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
- Tate, London
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Zabludowicz Collection, London
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/katy-moran Katy Moran.
- http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2012/march/22/inside-the-mind-of-katy-moran/ Inside the mind of Katy Moran.
- http://www.andrearosengallery.com/exhibitions/katy-moran_2015-01-30 Katy Moran Exhibition: January 30 – February 28, 2015.
- http://wexarts.org/exhibitions/katy-moran-one-six-solos-exhibitions Katy Moran One of the Six Solos Exhibitions.
- http://www.walkerart.org/painter-painter-studio-sessions Painter Painter Studio Sessions.
- http://parasol-unit.org/katy-moran Katy Moran 15 January - 8 March 2015.
- https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/artist-katy-moran-as-a-woman-its-still-more-difficult-its-still-not-equal-9964463.html Artist Katy Moran: 'As a woman it's still more difficult, it's still not equal'.
- Katy Moran, Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art, 2015, p122.
