Born in 1969, Arlington, Massachusetts
Currently lives and works in Berkeley, California


Education


 

1999  MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1991  BA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA


Awards


 

2005  Aperture Award to an Emerging ArLst
2004  The Baum: Award for Emerging American Photographers
1999  Rema Hort Mann FoundaLon Grant


Selected Solo Exhibitions


 

2017
Lady into Fox, FraenkelLAB, San Francisco, CA
2015
Katy Grannan: The Nine and The Ninety-Nine, FOAM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Hundreds of Sparrows, Salon 94, New York, NY
The 99 & The Nine, Sherrick & Paul, Nashville, TN
2014
The 99, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
The Sun & Other Stars: Katy Grannan & Charlie White, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Boulevard, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Boulevard, Salon 94, New York, NY
2008
The Westerns, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Another Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Lady into Fox, Salon 94, New York, NY
2006
MysIc Lake. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blaffler Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
MysIc Lake, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Pictures, Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis, MO
MysIc Lake Fi\y One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Sugar Camp Road / Morning Call, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2004
Arles Photography FesIval, Arles, France
Sugar Camp Road / Morning Call, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Sugar Camp Road / Morning Call, Fi\y One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Sugar Camp Road, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Morning Call, Salon 94, New York, NY
2001
Dream America, Fi\y One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
2000
Dream America, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
Dream America, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


Selected Group Exhibitions


 

2018-19
This Land, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
Each with the Other, Adrien Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018-22
CivilizaIon: The Way We Live Now, NaLonal Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Seoul,
South Korea; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; Musée des CivilisaLons de
l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, (MUCEM), Marseille, France

2018
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
2016-17
Human Interest: Portraits fro the Whitney’s CollecIon, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2016
The Only Way is Up, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
SHE Photographs, Montreal Fine Arts Museum, Montreal, Canada
The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2015
SiVer, Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio, Columbus, OH
2014
The Plot Thickens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Photographer’s Playspace, Aperture FoundaLon, New York, NY
Sherrick & Paul, Nashville, TN
2013
COLOR!, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Something about a Tree, The Flag Art FoundaLon, New York, NY
The House of the Seven Gables, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
2012
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
We the People, Robert Raushenberg FoundaLon, New York, NY
2011-14
More American Photographs, CCA Wafs InsLtute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA;
travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH;
California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
2011
2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2010
They Knew What They Wanted, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gaze, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
Muse, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2009
The Portrait: Photography as Stage, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
The Female Gaze: Women look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
San Francisco Plays Itself, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

2008
Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2007
Several ExcepIonally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVIV, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Prints, Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Figure It! The Human Factor in Contemporary Art, The Clay Center, Charleson, WY
2006
Several ExcepIonally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVIII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tina b.: The Prague Contemporary Art FesIval, Prague, Czech Republic
2005
Several ExcepIonally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XVII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sad Songs, University Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (curated by Bill Conger)
Recent AcquisiIons, InternaLonal Center for Photography, New York, NY
This Must Be the Place, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Some Body - Not Mine. The Beauty and Pain of Puberty, Rudolfinum, Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2004-05
Girls Night Out, The Orange County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Contemporary
Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Blaffer Gallery, Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2004
The Baum: Award for Emerging American Photographers, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Black & White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Fi_y One Celebrates Four Years, Fi\y One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
From New York with Love, Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Frankenstein, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Guided by Heroes, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (curated by Raf Simons)
Imperfect Innocence: The Debra & Dennis Scholl CollecIon, Contemporary Museum, BalLmore,

MD; Palm Beach InsLtute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach FL
2002
True Blue, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
The Norman Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Women by Women, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY
2001
Boomerang: Collector’s Choice II, Exit Art, New York, NY (curated by Meredith Verona)
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuel Kunst Gent, Belgium
Installed CollecIons / CollecIons Installed, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
LegiImate Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Howard Fox)
Tell It Like It Is, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany
Dreaming in Print: Visionaire 10-Year Anniversary ExhibiIon, Fashion InsLtute of Technology, New York, NY
Smile, Here, New York, NY
2000
ReflecIons Through A Glass Eye, InternaLonal Center for Photography, New York , NY
Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Another Girl, Another Planet, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY
Female, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Vince Alef)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY


Selected Publications


 

2017
Hundreds of Sparrows, vol. I & II, Nazraeli Press, Paso Robles, CA
2014
The Ninety Nine / The Nine, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA & Salon 94, New York, NY
2011
Boulevard, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA & Salon 94, New York, NY
2007
The Westerns, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Greenberg Van Doren & Salon 94, New York,
NY

2005
Model American, Aperture, DAP, New York, NY (essay by Jan Avgikos)
2000
Katy Grannan: Dream America, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY
(exhibiLon catalogue; text by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn)


Selected Films


 

2016
The Nine, Visions du Réel, Switzerland; Krakow Film FesLval, Poland; Hot Springs Film FesLval,
AK; Mill Valley Film FesLval, CA & others

 

Selected Institutional Collections


 

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, NY
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
InternaLonal Center of Photography, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
NaLonal Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
NaLonal Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
NaLonal Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Pilara Family FoundaLon, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT