Katy Moran

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, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Parasol Unit, Sperone Westwater, Station Gallery, and the Tate St Ives.

Early life and education Moran was born in Manchester to art teacher parents. 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

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

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