Katie Ryan is a visual artist who works through a combination of theoretical research and intuitive experimentation with materials. Born in Ireland, she has been living and working in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, since 2013. Her work is concerned with modes of understanding, looking in particular at the connection between language-based cognition and embodiment. Working sculpturally, she considers the body as a site from which to extrapolate ideas relating to individualism, value and power.
She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at The Victorian College of the Arts in 2017. Katie was the Organisation Coordinator at KINGS Artist-Run from 2021 until 2023. Her most recent solo projects include 'desk, door, devil' (2024) at CAVES in Naarm(Melbourne); 'A handshake is reversible' at TCB in Brunswick; ‘The roles are a drag’ (2023) at Working At Heights in Northcote.