Born 1980, Montreal, Canada
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Education
2008 MFA, Columbia University, New York, USA
2002 BFA, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2026
Jeu d'esprit, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Outta the Bag, Hauser & Wirth, New York
2025
Don’t ASK, High Line Billboard at 18th Street, New York, USA
Inner Momentum, AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Foundations, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy
Codependence, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2023
Allison Katz: WESTWARD HO!, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, USA
2022
Posters 2012-2021, Canada House, London, UK
Artery, Camden Art Centre, London, UK *
2021
Artery, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK *
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA (Online)
2020
Monograph & Graphics, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
2019
Traforati 2019, Torre Bonomo, Spoleto, Italy
2018
Diary w/o Dates, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, UK
fig-futures 1/16, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
Muse with a Short Fuse, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
Period, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
2017
Posters, Billedrommet, Tønsberg, Norway
2016
AKA, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy
We boil at different degrees, The Approach, London, UK
2015
All Is On, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Allison Katz and Eva LeWitt, Malraux’s Place, New York, NY
Fig-2 47/50, ICA Studio, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK *
2014
Adele, Piper Keys, London, UK
Rumours, Echoes, BFA Boatos, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
Perra Perdida (with Camilla Wills), Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico
Regardless, Laura Bartlett, London, UK
The Thames started moving. Someone in Oxford is running a bath, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
2012
Daymark, 1857, Oslo, Norway
2011
The Parts, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
To the People of Montreal (with Alex Kwartler), Battat Contemporary, Montreal, Canada
2010
Le Tit, Rachel Uffner, New York, USA
2009
Ruthless in Chalk Farm, Battat Contemporary, Montreal, Canada *
2007
No Melody Harder (with Jessica Williams), Thierry Goldberg, New York, USA
* a catalogue was published with this exhibition
2026
How We Live Now, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece
Man Ray: M for Dictionary, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Antenna Space, Hong Kong
Ongoing: Modern and Contemporary British Art: The State We’re In: 2000 - now, Tate Britain, London, UK
To Hold and Be Held, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
2025
Burrowed Scenery, Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark, Dusseldorf, Germany
Group show, The Campus, NY, USA
From Cindy Sherman to Francesco Vezzoli. 80 contemporary artists, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2024
In the House of the Trembling Eye. An exhibition staged by Allison Katz, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Surreal Legacies, Hauser & Wirth, Monaco
Capturing the Moment, Tate Modern, London, UK
Animal Watch, 125 Newbury, New York, USA
In Focus, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2023
Gruppenausstellung, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, cur. Cecilia Alemani, New York, USA
Horizons. Is there anybody out there?, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, France
On Living - With Taste, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Monochromes, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Motherboy, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy
2022
The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
I'm stepping high, I'm drifting, and there I go leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China
2021
House of Perception, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
The Imaginary Sea, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Plus One, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
2020
Palama, MANIFESTA 13, Marseille, France (permanent installation)
This Corrosion, Modern Art, London, England
2019-2020
Slow Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, England; Leeds Museum and Art Gallery, Leeds, England; The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK *
2019
Artists I Steal From, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK*
City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Maskulinitäten, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
One If by Land, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
Paint, also known as Blood: Women, Affect and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
To Make the Stone Stony, Golsa, Oslo, Norway
2018
The Lulennial II: A Low-Hanging Fruit, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico
Nightfall, Mendes Wood, Brussels, Belgium
Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
The Rest, Lisson Gallery, New York, USA
Splendor Solis, The Approach, London, England
2017
All Day Breakfast, Reading International at Munchees, Reading, UK
I go, you go, good to go, Unclebrother, Hancock, USA
Sputterances, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Teenscape, SCHLOSS, Oslo, Norway
That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920–Today, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
2016
A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, USA
DAS INSTITUT (DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz), Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK
The Discovery of a Leak in the Roof of Marcel Breuer’s Wellfleet Summer Cottage on the Morning of September 6, 1984, Off Vendome, New York, NY; Commercial Street, Provincetown, USA
Fredrik Vaerslev: All Around Amateur, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway; Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Intensive Nesting, Division Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Sex and the City, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
2015
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA
Dredgers on the Rail (DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz), Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA
Kleenex Rose, Bodega, New York, USA
No Joke, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Off Cardinal Points (DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz), Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany
The Violet Crab, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
2014
As a Body, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
Casa La Taza Blanca, Gallery Peacetime at Pool, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Congratulations On Your Ugly Handwriting, Basement Roma, CURA, Rome, Italy
Dizionario di Pittura, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
July, The Approach, London, UK
Last Seen Entering the Biltmore, South London Gallery, London, UK
Puddle, Pothole, Portal, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA
A Slight Oscillation of the Poles, Marquis Dance Hall, Istanbul, Turkey
2013
Gaylen Gerber (DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
I Am The Magic Hand, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, USA
Noisy Spaghetti, Fauna, Copenhagen, Denmark
Notes on Neo–Camp, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium; Studio Voltaire, London, UK
The Room and Its Inhabitants, Susan Hobbs, Toronto, Canada
Sense and Sensibility, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
The Stairs, Algus Greenspon, New York, USA
Tussie–Mussie, 1857, Oslo, Norway
2012
Gaylen Gerber, John Henderson & DAS INSTITUT with Allison Katz, Family Business, New York, USA
Les Biches, Clearing, Brooklyn, USA
Steel Life, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, USA
Very Abstract and Really Figurative, Emmanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
2011
Channel to the New Image, Petzel, New York, USA
Tai Shani: The 144th Collapse of the Double Life Flexing Surface, Tate Britain, London, UK (paintings for Tai Shani performance)
2009
Human Arrangement, Rachel Uffner, New York, USA
Kehraus: Abschied von stabilen Wänden, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany (as It’s Our Pleasure to Serve You)
2008
Basso Broadway, New York, USA (performance as It’s Our Pleasure to Serve You)
Nothing is exciting. Nothing is sexy. Nothing is not embarrassing, Mumok –Museum Moderner Kunst, Austria
Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (performance as It’s Our Pleasure to Serve You)
When You See Me Again It Won’t Be Me/This is the Announcement, Smith–Stewart Gallery, New York, USA (performance as It’s Our Pleasure to Serve You)
When You See Me Again It Won't Be Me/Would You Like Some Coffee?, The Unfair Fair, Loto–Arte, Rome, Italy (performance as It’s Our Pleasure to Serve You)
2007
Evas Arche und der Feminist No. 8, Passerby, New York, USA (performance as It’s Our Pleasure to Serve You)
Tate, London, UK
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Kistefos, Jevnaker, Norway
Ekhard Foundation, Netherlands
Long Lati Foundation, Shanghai, China
2023 Gershon Iskowitz Prize, The Gershon Iskowitz Foundation in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
2020
Shortlist, Max Mara Art Prize for Women, London, England
2008
Emerging Artist Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, N
2023
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
2022
Pompeii Commitments, Digital Fellowship, Pompeii, Italy
2019
Artist in Residence, Torre Bonomo, Mahler & LeWitt Studios, Spoleto, Italy
2017
Artist in Residence, Mahler & LeWitt Studios, Spoleto, Italy
2009
Artist in Residence, Robert Lehman Art Centre at Brooks School, Andover, MA
2003
Artist in Residence, Brucebo Foundation, Gotland, Sweden
2022
Katz, Allison, Thorne, Sam, Clark, Martin, 'Allison Katz. Artery', Cambridge; London: The Mit Press, 2022, ill. (exh. cat.)
Godfrey, Mark, 'File Note 137: Allison Katz', London: Camden Art Centre, 2022, ill. (exh. pamphlet)
2020
Katz, Allison, Wills, Camilla, Loeffler, Frances (et al.), 'Allison Katz', Geneva: JRP Editions, 2020, ill. (exh. cat.)
2025
Katz, Allison, Bottai, Stella, 'Allison Katz. In the House of the Trembling Eye', Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, 2025, ill. (exh. cat.)
2024
Rutten, Bart, Postma, Esmee, Nochlin, Linda, 'Op Scherp Fotorealisme Nader Bekeken / In Focus. A Closer Look at Photorealism', Zwolle: WBOOKS; Utrecht: Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2024, pp. 100-103, ill. (exh. cat.)
2023
Dillon, Brian, 'Affinities. On Art and Fascination', New York: New York Review of Books, 2023, ill., on cover
Schwabsky, Barry, Whitfield, Sarah, 'Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing', Rizzoli International Publications, 2023, ill. p. 65
Godfrey, Mark, Siegel, Katy (eds.), 'Making Their Mark. Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection', New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2023, ill., pp. 118-119, (exh. cat.)
2022
La Biennale di Venezia (eds.), 'The Milk of Dreams / Il Latte dei Sogni', Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 2022, pp. 570-571, ill. (exh. cat.)
Luckraft, Paul, Neilson, Elizabeth (eds.), 'The Stand-Ins. Figurative Painting from the Zabludowicz Collection', London: Zabludowicz Collection, 2022, pp. 128-129, 256, ill. (exh. cat.)
2021
Sharp, Chris, 'The Imaginary Sea', Paris: Jean Boîte Éditions, 2021, pp. 34, 41, 112-113, ill. (exh. cat.)
____'Piper Keys Exhibitions', London: Piper Keys, 2021, ill. (exh. cat.)
Rugoff, Ralph, 'Mixing It Up. Painting Today', London: Hayward Gallery, 2021, pp. 102-105, ill. (exh. cat.)
2019
Barrington, Alvaro, 'Artists I Steal From', London: Thaddeus Ropac, 2019, pp. 100-101, ill. (exh. cat.)
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej Warszawa (ed.), 'Kobieta, afekt I pragnienie we współczesnym malarstwie', Warsaw: Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej Warszawa, 2019, pp. 5, 13, 112-113, ill. (exh. cat.)
Herbert, Martin, Judah, Hettie, Fox, Gillian (et al.), in: 'Slow Painting', London: Hayward Gallery, 2019, pp. 73-79, 146-152, ill. (exh. cat.)
Mahler-LeWitt Studios (ed.), 'Allison Katz. Traforati', in: Mahler-LeWitt Studios, Spoleto: Mahler-LeWitt Studios, 2019, pp. 76-81, ill. (exh. cat.)
2017
Üstek, Fatoş, '47/50 Allison Katz', in: 'Fig-2: 50 projects in 50 weeks', London: Black Dog Publishing, 2017, pp. 198-201, 277-278, ill. (exh. cat.)
2016
Kantarovsky, Sanya, 'Teeps and Gutters. Sanya Kantarovsky in Conversation with Allison Katz', in: 'Sanya Kantarovsky: No Joke', Cologne: Konig, 2016, pp. 42-121
Thorne, Sam, 'That Continuous Thing: Artists & the Ceramics Studio', London: Tate, 2016 ill. (exh. cat.)
2015
Wills, Camilla, (ed.), 'Love Your Parasites', Paris: Paraguay Press, 2015, pp. 17, 28-29, 60-63
2014
Berfond, Lindsey, 'Allison Katz', in: 'Puddle, pothole, portal', Long Island City: SculptureCenter, 2014, pp. 60-61, ill. (exh. cat.)
2009
Gioni, Massimiliano, Hoptman, Laura, Cornell, Lauren (eds.), 'Younger than Jesus. Artist Directory', New York: Phaidon, 2009, p. 260
2024
Katz, Allison, 'Kindred Spirits', in: Tate etc., Issue 63, Autumn, 2024, ill.
2023
Katz, Allison, 'Allison Katz on Charline von Heyl', in: Godfrey, Mark, Siegel, Katy (eds.), 'Making Their Mark. Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection', New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2023, pp. 118-119, ill. (exh. cat.)
2022
Katz, Allison, 'Anatomy', in: Katz, Allison, Thorne, Sam, Clark, Martin, 'Allison Katz. Artery', Cambridge; London: The Mit Press, 2022, ill. (exh. cat.)
2019
Katz, Allison, 'An Homage to Adele Röder', in: Frieze, no. 200, January-February 2019, pp. 174-175, ill.
2018
Katz, Allison. 'I Will Write a Poem about Nothing, c. 12th Century, William of Aquitaine', in: 'The Annotated Reader', London: Ryan Gander Studio, 2018, p. 277
2017
Katz, Allison, and Philip Coulter, 'Out of Hand', in: 'Kerstin Brätsch. Innovation', Cologne: Konig, 2017, pp. 289-296
2015
Jauregui, Gabriela, 'Correa Busca Perra Perdida / Leash Seeks Lost Bitch', [with cover illustration and images by Camilla Wills and Allison Katz], Brooklyn: The Song Cave, Mexico City: Sexto Piso, 2015, ill. (exh. cat.)
2014
Katz, Allison, 'What Is at Hand?', in: 'Kerstin Brätsch. Unstable Talismanic Renderings', New York: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, 2014, pp. 181-205.
2013
Katz, Allison, 'Morning Verses', in: Cadavre Quotidiano, Los Angeles: X-Tra Editions, 2013, pp. 92-94
___'Window – Insert', in: 'The Happy Hypocrite – Freedom', no.6, London: Bookworks, 2013, p. 65
2011
Katz, Allison, 'The Not, the Eye, the Trick', in: 'Charline Von Heyl', Lyon: Editions Les Presses du Réel, 2011, pp. 34-40
2009
Katz, Allison, Sagri, Georgia, 'Allison Katz. Ruthless in Chalk Farm', Montreal: Battat Contemporary 2009, ill. (exh. cat.)