Lives and works in Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
2011 Royal Academy Schools, Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, London, UK
2008 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, BA (Hons) Fine Art, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Radiant Net, RUSCHWOMAN, Chicago, USA
2023 Neon in Daylight, RUSCHMAN at Feria Material Vol. 9, Mexico City, MX
2021 PINK CUT PINK, RUSCHMAN, Chicago, USA
2017 Parties and Days, Bar4000, Chicago, USA
2013 Acid Blush, Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2010 Got the Blues for Red, Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm, SE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Spider Cannibalism, co-curated with Eric Ruschman, RUSCHMAN, Chicago, USA
2023 Winter Salon, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, DE
2022 Göz Göze, Büyükada, Istanbul, TR
Feria Material Vol. 8, RUSCHMAN, Mexico City, MX
8, co-curated with Luey Graves, Sydney Mews, London, UK
2021 NADA Miami, RUSCHMAN, Miami, USA
2020 A Cat May Look on a Queen, curated by Eric Ruschman, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2019 Katy Kirbach + Matt Morris, RUSCHMAN, Berlin, DE
Irmak Canevi + Katy Kirbach, TekTrope, Istanbul, TR
2017 From Off to On, with Avery Nelson, Yellow Door Gallery, Des Moines, IA, USA
2017 Ex Roma IV, APT Gallery, London, UK
2014 I Cheer A Dead Man’s Sweetheart, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
RESIDENCIES / AWARDS
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Göz Göze, Istanbul, TR
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, DE
2021 NEUSTART KULTUR VG BildKunst, DE
2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
2020 Artist-in-Residence, Villa Lena, IT
2019 Artist-in-Residence, TekTrope, Istanbul, TR
2013 Abbey Scholar in Painting, British School at Rome, IT
TEACHING
2024- Adjunct Lecturer, Bard College Berlin
2022 - 2023 Mathilde Planck Lecturer, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, DE
2021 Lecture, Color Marathon, New York Studio School, USA
2020 Alchemical Color and Perfume Potions, co-taught with Matt Morris, Class of Professor Shannon Bool, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE
2014 - 2019 Lecturer, Department of Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 “Pink Cut Pink” by Marie von Heyl, essay for Pink Cut Pink at RUSCHMAN, Chicago
2017 "Katy Kirbach: 'Parties and Days' at Bar4000" by Nicole Mauser, Chicago Artist Writers
2017 "Banish the Thought / Marry the Night " by Matt Morris, essay for Parties and Days at Bar4000, Chicago
2013 "Acid Blush" by Sara Knowland, essay for Acid Blush at Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2012 "Abstraction Again?" by Charles Darwent, Abstract Critical, 23 March 2012
2011 "Night Shift" by Emily Gosling, DesignWeek, 30 August 2011