(b. 1980 in the UK) lives and works in Berlin and Scotland. Since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2007 Katie Paterson has gone on to exhibit internationally, from London to New York, Berlin to Seoul, and her works have been exhibited in major shows including the Hayward Gallery, Tate Britain, Kunsthalle Wien, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Her artworks are represented in collections including the Guggenheim, New York and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. She was winner of the Independent’s Creative 30 award “for Britain’s most creative young person” and most recently the winner of the Visual Arts category of the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Awards. Paterson was also awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh University recognition of her “major contribution in fostering collaboration between the arts and sciences.” She has three forthcoming solo shows this year at CentrePasquArt (Biel, Switzerland); FRAC Franche-Comté (Besançon, France); James Cohan Gallery, New York.
conceptual process-based project)
Nominated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, founder and current Director of Chalet Society, Paris.
K. Paterson_Campo del Cielo, Field of the sky
K. Paterson_Meteorite launched into space aboard the ATV