• Overview
    Katja Farin

    Katja Farin works in figurative painting depicting the interactions between the subconscious and reality. The relationship between figures is uncertain; the everyday life of sitting at coffee shops, wandering in backyard gardens, answering boring phone calls becomes the backdrop for the internal dialogue with the self that contemplates traumas, coping mechanisms, dimensional shifts, dreams and distortions. The works are dream spaces that allow the viewer to peek into the interior worlds of the figures, their relationships with the self and others. Bright colors, emotionally charged expressions and distorted bodies create the dreamlike dysphoric space that these androgynous figures embody. The paintings hold the complexities of emotional and social connection and attempt elucidate the individualistic culture and capitalist realism.

     

    Farin received a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 and received a MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2025 in London. Selected solo exhibitions include Friends Indeed (San Francisco), Gaa Gallery (New York and Cologne), Asia Art Center (Taipei) and in lieu (Los Angeles). Their art has been included in group exhibitions at Pace Gallery (Hong Kong), Alexander Berggruen (New York), Mandy Zhang Art (London), Wilding Cran (Los Angeles) and Nicodim (Los Angeles). Their work has been shown in several art fairs including NADA Miami, Miart Milan, KAIF Seoul and Art Taipei.

  • Biography
    Portrait of Katja Farin
    Portrait of Katja Farin

     

    EDUCATION


    2018

    University of California, Los Angeles, BA Fine Arts

     

    2025

    University College of London: SLADE Prospective MFA Painting

     

     

     

    EXHIBITIONS

     

    2026

    • Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, “Gesture and Being”

     

    2025

    • Tiderip Gallery, London, UK, “All Eyes on Me”
    • Mandy Zhang Art, London, UK, “Where the Wild Things Are”
    • Gaa Gallery Cologne, Germany, “Tricksters II” (Solo Exhibition)
    • Gaa Gallery New York, USA, “Tricksters” (Solo Exhibition)
    • Arusha Gallery, London, UK, “Collective Coma”

     

    2024

    • Pace Gallery Hong Kong, “All Walks of Life”
    • Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan, “Blind Spot” (Solo Exhibition)

     

    2023

    • Shulamit Nazarian Los Angeles, USA, “Friends and Lovers”
    • Katja Farin, Maria Farrar, Esme Hodsoll, Alyina Zaidi Alexander Berggruen Gallery NY
    • COMA Gallery Sydney, Australia, “This Oyster is Our World”

     

    2022

    • Indeed Gallery San Francisco, USA, “Counterfeit Friends” (Solo Exhibition)
    • BGSQD New York, USA, “Near Miss” (Solo Exhibition)
    • Prior Art Space Berlin, Germany, “Mistakes for Small Talk” (Solo Exhibition)
    • Era Gallery Milan, Italy, “Soft Exit” (Solo Exhibition)
    • Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK, “Eve Presents Second Edition”
    • AMMA Foundation San Luis Potosí, México, “THE DAY I SAW YOU: RETRATOS DE LA COLECCIÓN FUNDACIÓN AMMA (2022-2023)”

     

    2021

    • Era Gallery Milan, Italy, “Growth in Absence” (Solo Exhibition)
    • In Lieu Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “Hum of Virtue” (Solo Exhibition)
    • Beers London Gallery, UK, “Wunder Woman: The Female Figurative”
    • Gallery Gertrude San Francisco, USA, “We Swam as Though the World Weren’t      Ending”
    • domicile (n.) Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “All Tomorrow’s Parties”

     

    2020

    • Lubov Gallery New York, USA, “Lines From Arguments” (Solo Exhibition)
    • Nicodim Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “PAPA RAGAZZE!”
    • Wilding Cran Gallery Los Angeles, USA “It’s a sad and beautiful world…”
    • Drive-By-Art (Public Art in this Moment of Social Distancing) Los Angeles, CA

     

    2019

    • in lieu Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “Carry, Carries, Carried” (Solo Exhibition)

     

    2018

    • in lieu Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “Give Plaza”
    • Tchotchke Reservoir Coyote Los Angeles, USA
    • The New Wight Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “Juried Exhibition: Lanka Tattersall”

     

    2017

    • The New Wight Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “Juried Exhibition: Sohrab Mohebbi”
    • New Wight Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “UCLA Scholarship Show”

     

    2015

    • The New Wight Gallery Los Angeles, USA, “Juried Exhibition: Rita Gonzalez”

     

     

     

    PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

     

    Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa

    Fundación AMMA Collection Ciudad de México, México

     

     

    AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

     

    2025

    • Desiree Painting Prize 2025

     

    2017-2018

    • Hoyt Scholarship 2017-2018 October Treviso, Italy

     

    2024

    • Asia Art Center Residency Program August Nanfang’ao, Yilan Taiwan

     

    2023

    • Era Gallery Artist Residency May/June Milan, Italy

     

    2022

    • PPP/Oostmeijer Residency August/September Amsterdam, Netherlands

     

    2021

    • Dune Shack Residency August Provincetown, MA

     

    2018

    • Dumfries House Artist Residency September New Cumnock, Scotland
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