Katy Grannan
Arlington, Massachusetts, 1969 -
KATY GRANNAN
Born in 1969, Arlington, MA
Lives and works in Berkeley, CA
EDUCATION
1999 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1991 BA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Lady Into Fox, Salon 94, New York, NY
Another Woman Who Died In Her Sleep, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Mystic Lake, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Pictures , Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis, MO,
Mystic Lake, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Sugar Camp Road / Morning Call, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2004 Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France
Sugar Camp Road / Morning Call, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Sugar Camp Road / Morning Call, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Sugar Camp Road, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Morning Call, Salon 94, New York, NY
2001 Dream America, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
2000 Dream America, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
Dream America, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVIII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tina b.: The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
2005 Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sad Songs, Curated by Bill Conger, University Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Recent Acquisitions, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
This Must Be the Place, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Some Body - Not Mine: The Beauty and Pain of Puberty, Rudolfinum, Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague,
Czech Republic
2004 The Baum: Award for Emerging American Photographers, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Black & White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Fifty One Celebrates Four Years, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
From New York with Love, Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Girls Night Out, The Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA;
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA;
Aspen Art Museum, CO; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO;
Blaffer Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2003 Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Frankenstein, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Guided by Heroes, curated by Raf Simons, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Imperfect Innocence: The Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD;
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, FL
2002 True Blue, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
The Norman Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Women by Women, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY
2001 Boomerang: Collector’s Choice II, curated by Meredith Verona, Exit Art, New York, NY
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuel Kunst Gent, Belgium
Installed Collections / Collections Installed, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
Legitimate Theater, curated by Howard Fox , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA,
Tell It Like It Is, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany
Dreaming in Print: Visionaire 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Smile, Here Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Reflections Through A Glass Eye, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Another Girl, Another Planet, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY
Female, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY;
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
1998 DFN Gallery, New York, NY
A&A Gallery, New Haven, CT
ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Cullum, Jerry, "Exploring What's Real," The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, February 6.
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Art on Paper, January/February, p.48- 50
2003 Pincus, Robert L., "Exploring passage from Child to Woman," The San Diego Union-Tribune, December 14.
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Kerr, Merrily, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Girl Photographers Fight Back," Flash Art, October, p. 82-85.
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"Goings on About Town Fall Preview," The New Yorker, September 22.
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PUBLICATIONS
The Westerns, text by Katy Grannan, Fraenkel Gallery, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery and
Salon 94 Freemans, New York, 2008.
Model American, essay by Jan Avgikos, Aperture, DAP, New York, 2005.
Art Photography Now, text by Susan Bright, Aperture, DAP, New York, 2005.
Book No. 1, edited by Matthew Rosenzwieg, Aperture, DAP, New York, Spring 2005.
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, edited by Charlotte Cotton, Thames & Hudson
Publishing, London, 2004.
Because I’m Worth It, book, poem by Paula Bennett and text by Carol Hamilton et. al.,
Assouline Publishing, December 2004.
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, exhibition catalogue, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
April 16 - August 15, 2004.
2004 Whitney Biennial, exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
March 11 - May 30, 2004.
Curve: The Female Nude Now, David Ebony, Jane Harris, Frances Richard,
Martha Schwendener & Sarah Valdez, foreword by Linda Yablonsky, Universe Press,
New York, NY
Sensation, edited by Patrick Remy, Steidl Publishing, 2003.
Girls Night Out, exhibition catalogue, The Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2003.
The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes, Francesco Bonami, editor, and Raf Simons, Fondazione Pitti
Immagine Dixcovery, Florence, Italy, 2003.
Imperfect Innocence: The Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection, exhibition catalogue,
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, FL
Casino 2001: 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, S.M.A.K. /
Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Belgium;
text by Jan Hoet, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Lars Bang Larsen and others, 2001.
Dormir/Sleep, edited by Alexis Fabry, Celine Fribourg and Gregory Leroy, Coromandel Press, Paris, 2000.
Katy Grannan: Dream America, exhibition catalogue, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art,
NY; text by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, 2000.
Another Girl, Another Planet, exhibition catalogue, text by A.M. Homes, introduction by
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, NY, 1999.
AWARDS
2005 Aperture Award to an Emerging Artist,
2004 The Baum: Award for Emerging American Photographers
1999 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
International Center of Photography, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
The Orange County Museum of Art, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- Female
Füssen, Germany, 1952 - 2013, Freiburg, Germany