Katy Moran is a British contemporary artist whose work is in the collection of the Arts Council, The Tate, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, and the Government Art Collection, amongst others. She is represented by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London.

Moran's first solo exhibition was for Stuart Shave/Modern Art, in London, 2006. Her first institutional solo exhibition was at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in 2008. In 2025 she had her first solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.

She has also had solo exhibitions at Andrea Rosen Gallery,Katy Moran Exhibition: January 30 – February 28, 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015 The Wexner Center for the Arts,Katy Moran One of the Six Solos Exhibitions. Retrieved 8 March 2015. Parasol Unit, Sperone Westwater, Station Gallery, and the Tate St Ives.

Early life and education Moran was born in Manchester to art teacher parents.Artist Katy Moran: 'As a woman it's still more difficult, it's still not equal'. Ben Luke, London Evening Standard, 8 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015. She graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1998 with a BA Honours degree in Graphic Art. She received an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in 2005.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions Katy Moran, Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art, 2015, p122. 2006: Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurie, France. 2008: Katy Moran: Paintings, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK; Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, USA; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City. 2009: Contemporary Fine and Applied Arts: 1928–2009, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK; Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Galleria II Capricorno, Venice, Italy. 2010: Six Solos, Katy Moran, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA. 2011: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City. 2013: Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, UK. 2015: Katy Moran, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City 2017: Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London 2019: I want to live in the afternoon of that day, Sperone Westwater, New York City 2020: Recent Paintings, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London 2022: 300 sun days, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London 2023: How to paint like an athlete, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 2023: More Me, Station Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2023: Let's get some AIR, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

Group exhibitions

2005: Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, (Art Review magazine prize), London; Peculiar Encounters, Ec Artspace, London; New London Kicks, The Wooster Project, New York City; Morpho Eugenia, Museo di Stato, San Marino, Italy; MA Show, Royal College of Art, London; Man Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London. 2006: A Broken Arm, 303 Gallery, New York City; New Contemporaries 2006, London and Liverpool, UK (touring); Young Painters, Grusenmeyer Gallery, Deurle, Belgium; Primetime Painting: Young Art from London, Galerie Seitz, Berlin, Germany; Sunset in Athens II, Vamialis Gallery, Athens, Greece. 2007: Dining Room Show, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City; Old Space New Space, Gagosian Gallery, New York City; The Painting Show: Slipping Abstraction, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Salon Nouveau, Galerie Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna, Austria. 2008: Art Now: Strange Solution, Tate Britain, London; Selections from the Orvitz Family Collection, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA. 2009: Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London; We're Moving, Royal College of Art, London; Surface Reality, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Contemporary Fine Arts and Applied Arts: 1928–2009, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK; Cave Painting, Gresham's Ghost, New York City. 2010: Tasters' Choice, Stephen Friedman, London; Le Tableau, Cheim & Read, New York City; Feint Art, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 2011: Le Magasin-CNAC (Centre National d'Art Contemporain), Grenoble, France; Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, USA. 2012: The Far and the Near: Replaying Art in St Ives, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK; Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA. 2013: A Personal Choice, by Bruna Aickelin, Galleria II Capricorno, Venice, Italy; Lloyds Club, London; Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Inevitable Figuration, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy. 2014: Somos Libres II. Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Gianni e Marella, Agnelli, Turin, Italy 2015: Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable and Unreasonable Sized Paintings, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People. A selection by Jennifer Higgie from The Arts Council Collection (England), Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds; Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland; The Atkinson, Southport; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA 2016: Theories of Modern Art, Modern Art, London 2018: Summer Exhibition, Modern Art, London; Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London; Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings, Tate St Ives, Cornwall; travelling to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 2021: Fresh Faces from The Rachofsky Collection, SITE131, Dallas; WOOD WORKS: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered, Sperone Westwater, New York 2022: Sabrina, curated by Russell Tovey, Sim-Smith, London; By a Thread, A.I., London

Collections

Arts Council Collection, London David Roberts Art Foundation, London Government Art Collection, London Goetz Collection, Munich Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX Royal College of Art, London Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA Tate, London Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT Zabludowicz Collection, London

References

External links Katy Moran talking about her method.

Katy Moran at The Independent