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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Katy Martin — Prints, Paintings & Performance, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, New York

2021
Movement Scores, Garage Art Center, Queens, New York

2015
Paint on Skin, Alexander / Heath Contemporary Art, Roanoke, VA
Films Old and New by Katy Martin, Anthology Film Archives, New York

2014
Local Color, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York

2012
After Bada Shanren, The Narthex Gallery at Saint Peter’s Church, New York

2010
Water Mountain, Drawer 158, New York, New York

2009
The Jade Said, B1 Live Art Space, Shanghai, China

2005
Forget About Doing Art, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, China

2001
Shadow Boxing, P.S. 122 Gallery, Hallway Project, New York
Paint on Skin, Film and Photography Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

SOLO PERFORMANCES

2023
Temps Lunaire — Performance, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France

2022
Katy Martin — Performance, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, New York
Katy Martin, Rencontre Live, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France

2021
Katy Martin, Movement Scores, Garage Art Center, Queens, New York

2019
GuanYin, Turtle Salon, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre @ Cité International des Arts, Paris

2- AND 3-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019
Inscribing the Skin: Katy Martin and Diana Quinby, Alexander Heath Contemporary Art, Roanoke, VA

2018
Robert Huot and Katy Martin, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris

2017
Justice Is Compassion,
Abrazo Gallery, The Clemente, New York (3-person with Jackson Krall and Tine Kindermann)
Robert Huot, Katy Martin and Bill Brand, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (3-person)

2016
Bill Brand and Katy Martin: Body, Lens, Brush, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
Films by Bill Brand and Katy Martin, Light Cone Scratch Projection, Paris
Figure Painting, Alexander / Heath Contemporary Art, Roanoke, VA (with Robert Huot and Anthony Panzera)

2011
Illusive Views, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China (3-person with Yamini Nayer and Richard Jochum)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES as THE MEETING POINT PROJECT - a collaboration with 3 Paris artists

2018
LIVE IN PARIS: The Meeting Point/Performance,
Nocturnes de l’Aude, Paris (performance)

2016
The Meeting Point / Between / White / Silence and Us
, SACD, Paris, France (film screening)
Crossing Movements, Art and Its Double, Beijing Audiovisual Center, Beijing, China (group exhibition and performance) - with the exhibition traveling to 5 cities in China

2015
The Meeting Point // Paris-New York,
Galerie Double S, Paris, France (gallery exhibition)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - FILM “HANAFUDA/JASPER JOHNS” and related photos

2021-2022    
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Jasper Johns: Eyes in the Persistence of Form, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, Tokyo - film streaming online with Japanese subtitles

2019
Jasper Johns: Usuyuki, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, Tokyo - with a selection of photos

2012    
Jasper Johns: In Press/The Crosshatch Work and The Logic of Print, The Sackler Museum / Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

1990    
Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1989    
Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Plus screenings at The New Orleans Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; The Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland; The Isetan Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Yokohama Museum, Yokohama, Japan; and Castelli Graphics, New York.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Show In Progress - Acte III, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France

2022

Rencontres #2 / Meeting with the Artists #2, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
The Vision Festival: Onstage projection with the Matthew Shipp Quartet,
Roulette, Brooklyn, New York
Art pour L’Ukraine, Net Gallery / Centre Tcheque de Paris, Paris, France

2021
Group Show - Gallery Artists, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris

2020
COVID-19 Group Show, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris
New Works / Nouveaux Travaux, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris

2019
Turtle Salon, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre @ Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

2018
The Vision Festival: Onstage projection with the Matthew Shipp Acoustic Ensemble, Roulette, Brooklyn, New York

2016
The Modeling of the Medium, Art Museum of the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
A More Store: Colab at Printed Matter, Printed Matter, New York

2015
On-stage Projection, The Vision Festival at the Judson Church, New York

2014
Former Islands, Heliopolis Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Films That Go Pop: Screening the Screenprint, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass
Rayo de luz duq vivifica la Tierra, Secondo Festival de Cine Indigena, El Salvador

2013
Skin Trade: an in-depth look at the surface of things, PPOW Gallery, New York

2012
Heart + Art, DM Contemporary, New York, New York
The End of the World, The Streaming Museum, www.streamingmuseum.org

2011
Urban Landscape in Cinematic Transformation, Millennium Film Workshop, New York
Argument of the Eye, Uniondocs, New York

2010
Through Our Eyes: Berlin/New York, GalerieForum Am Meer, Berlin, Germany
New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 23rd Singapore International Film Festival, Malaysia
Inside/Outside: Short Videos from China, Montclair Film Forum/MSU, New Jersey
For the Birds, Anthology Film Archives, New York

2009
Chinatown Film Project, Museum of Chinese in Americas, New York
Through Our Eyes: Wuppertal/New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Painting Center, New York
Case Study: Eye World, Triple Candie, New York
By Night – No Stillness, Vision Collaboration Festival, Symphony Space, NY

2007
A State of Mind, Vision Festival, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York

2006
Through Our Eyes, New York, Green Dog Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
In Black and White and Living Color, Tribeca Film Festival, New York

2005
It was here a minute ago! NURTUREart Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New York, New York, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art

2004   
Memoria, Homage to El Salvador, The Brecht Forum, New York, New York
Superheroines, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY

2002
Key to the Quick, Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

2001
Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1999
Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1994
Gesture and Geometry: Battenfield and Martin, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

1983
Three Dimensional Photographs, Castelli Graphics, New York


PUBLICATIONS - writing and photographs

“Su Friedrich,” Su Friedrich, Interviews, edited by Sonia Misra and Rox Samer. MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2022, pp. 62-72.

Movement Scores: Interview with Katy Martin” by Meaghan J. Meehan, HVY Journalists, May 30, 2021, online publication.

"An Interview with Jasper Johns about Silkscreening." Jasper Johns: Usuyuki with an essay by Roberta Bernstein. Bilingual Catalogue: English and Japanese. Fergus McCaffrey, New York and Tokyo, 2019, pp. 71-78. Also featuring Katy’s photos and film stills of Johns at Simca Print Artists.

“In Dialogue: Katy Martin & Jo Wood-Brown - art & jazz as dialogue,” ARTEIDOLIA, January 2019, online publication.

“Katy Martin, Local Color,” KATALOG - Journal of Photography and Video, Vol. 29.2, 2018, pp. 62-65. Jens Friis, Editor-in-chief, published by Designkompagniet, Denmark.

 “Daichi Saito and Tomonari Nishikawa Interviewed by Katy Martin,” West of Taiwan, East of China, edited by Tony Chun-Hui Wu, 2015. (book chapter in Chinese)

“Beauty, Longing, and Fear” by Katy Martin and Linda Cummings, Making Sense – Beauty, Creativity and Healing, edited by Bandy Lee, Nancy Olson, and Thomas P. Duffy, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2014.

“Ellen Zweig and Leslie Thornton: In Conversation with Katy Martin,” Split Attention, 53 Art Museum (catalogue), Guangzhou, China, fall 2011

“Here and There: An Interview with Vincent Grenier for an Exhibition in China,” Millennium Film Journal #53, New York, fall 2010. (lead article)

“Daichi Saito and Tomonari Nishikawa Interviewed by Katy Martin,” EXiS Asia Experimental Media Issue, edited by Hang-Jun Lee, Seoul, Korea: Common Life Books, 2009. (These interviews were also published in Korean and Chinese).

“Interview with  Vincent Grenier.” Yishu Shijie (Art World Magazine), Shanghai, China, Dec08

“Interview with  Su Friedrich.” Yishu Shijie (Art World Magazine), Shanghai, China, Oct 08

“Interview with  Saul Levine.” Yishu Shijie (Art World Magazine), Shanghai, China, Aug 08

“Interview with Leslie Thornton.” Yishu Shijie (Art World Magazine), Shanghai, China, June 08

“Forget about Doing Art.” Katy Martin interviewed by Zhu Haijian, Yishu Shijie (Art World Magazine), Shanghai, China, Jan 05, pp. 46-50.

Cover photo, Be-Hold #39 (catalog of 19th and 20th century photographs), New York, 2002.

Cover photo and book design.  Giannina Braschi, El imperio de los sueños, San Juan: University of Puerto Rico Press, 1999.

“Art, Danger and Sacred Space. Bomb Magazine, Spring, 1999, p. 81 and pp. 104-105, ill.

“Nick Pappas on Plato and Wittgenstein.” Interview with philosopher Nickolas Pappas, BOMB Magazine, summer, 1996, pp. 66-70, ill.

"An Interview with Jasper Johns about Silkscreening." Jasper Johns: Writings, Interviews and Work Notes, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996.

Dalia Judovitz, "Anemic Vision in Duchamp," Dada and Surrealist Film, edited by Rudolf Kuenzli. NY: Willis Locker & Owens, 1987, pp. 55-56.

Frontispiece photo and extensive quotes.  Riva Castleman, Jasper Johns, A Print Retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986.

Drawing, Bomb Magazine, fall, 1985, p.73.

Drawing, Bomb Magazine, winter 1983, p. 24.

"Marcel Duchamp's ANEMIC-CINEMA."  Studio International, London, Jan./Feb. 1975. (special issue on Duchamp)


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Naeisha Rose, “Spirit of the ‘Femina Creative’ at Queens College, Queens Chronicle, March 28, 2024.

Holland Cotter, “Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer,” The New York Times, September 23, 2021 (mention and live link).

Vera Dika, “Pastiche or Critique: Reworking the Canonical Avant-Garde, and the Female Body,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, May 2019, 36:3, 157-172. Published online by Routledge.

Greg Allen, “Jasper Johns Making Silkscreens by Katy Martin,” greg.org, May 23, 2012.

Sarah Kirk Hanley, “Ink / Jasper Johns’s Revolution in Print,” Art 21 Blog, June 1, 2012.

Amy K. Hamlin, “A Heuristic Event: Reconsidering the Problem of the Johnsian Conversation.” Journal of Art Historiography, Number 7, Dec. 7, 2012.

Elena Sorokina, "Terrain Vague as Setting: Chinese Video in New York." Performing Arts Journal (PAJ), MIT Press, September 2006, pp. 60-65, ill.

Zhu Haijian, "New York, New York at the Shanghai Doland," Yishi Shijie (Art World Magazine), Shanghai, China, September 2005.

Juan Fernando Merino, “Pero si estaba aqui hace un minuto!,” El Diario La Prensa, May 1, 2005, ill.

Larry Gottheim, "Catch," Be-Hold #39, New York, March, 2002, p. 34, ill.

Morning Edition, National Public Radio, March 6, 1990.

Tokuzo Okabe, Feature article on the film, HANAFUDA/JASPER JOHNS.  Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo, Japan, March, 1987.

Dalia Judovitz, "Anemic Vision in Duchamp," Dada and Surrealist Film, Rudolf Kuenzli ed. NY: Willis Locker & Owens, 1987, pp. 55-56.


AWARDS

Anthology Film Archives – Film Preservation Project, 2012-15, New York, with funding from the National Film Preservation Fund and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - Manhattan Community Arts Fund, 2002

National Endowment for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship in Painting, 1989      

P.S. One/The Clocktower, Studio Artist Residency, 1977-78


RESIDENCIES, LECTURES, PANELS and ARTIST’S TALKS

2020
Japan Is America: Panel with Carlos Basualdo, Katy Martin and Reiko Tomii, Fergus McCaffrey Gallery, New York

2016
Artist-in-Residence, The Fine Arts College of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
K11 Art Center, Shanghai (artist’s talk -  with Bill Brand and Vincent Ward)

2015
Visiting Artist, International Center for Photography, New York

2013
Moving Figure/Shifting Ground, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT
Visiting Artist, International Center for Photography, New York

2012
Global Culture / Local Color, Making Sense Colloquium, Cite Universitaire, Paris, France

2011
Beauty, Longing and Fear, Making Sense Colloquium, Yale Medical School, Yale University, New Haven, CT (keynote session with philosopher Elaine Scarry and artist Linda Cummings)

2007
New Chinese Video, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
New Chinese Video, Massachusetts College of Art (MassArt), Boston

2006
Visiting Artist, China Central Academy of Fine Art (CCAFA), Beijing, China

2005
Visiting Artist, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
Visiting Artist, Shanghai University (East Campus), Shanghai, China


EDUCATION

Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, Vermont, MFA in Visual Art, 1997
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, BA, 1973 (double major in art and literature)