Katie Shapiro’s practice is centered on the ineffable and visualizing things that cannot be seen, most recently centered around ideas surrounding motherhood. She received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a BFA in Photography from CalArts. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Aperture Gallery, Kopeikin Gallery, Klompching Gallery, Christopher Grimes Gallery, and most recently at The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. Her work has received coverage in Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine and is housed in private collections as well as the permanent collections at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Huntington Library and Art Collection, the California Museum of Photography at Riverside, and the Amon Carter and CalArts Library. She’s been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre in Canada and Bullseye Glass in Pasadena, and will be attending Anderson Ranch in the fall. Shapiro lives and works in Los Angeles.
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portrait by David Dowling
contact: shapiro.katie@gmail.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katieshapirostudio/