Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson (born 1981) is a Berlin-based visual artist from Glasgow, Scotland^[1][2] whose multimedia artworks concern translation, distance, and scale.^[3][4] Paterson holds a BA from Edinburgh College of Art (2004) and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art (2007),^[4] she is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh (2013).^[5] Paterson is engaged to the artist Martin John Callanan.^[1]

Work

In one project she created a map of 27,000 known dead stars.^[6][7][8][9] Her ongoing project History of Darkness is a series of slides and photographs of the dark, all "numbered, and annotated with distance in light years from Earth."^[10] She has had solo exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford, Kettle's Yard Cambridge,^[11] Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre,^[12] Selfridges, London,^[13] BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna,^[14] Haunch of Venison, London, PKM, Seoul.^[15] Paterson was the winner of a South Bank Sky Arts Award in 2014. and a Leverhulme Fellow at University College London. In July 2014, Paterson will send an artwork into space, to the International Space Station aboard ESA Georges Lemaître ATV (ATV-5).^[16][17][18]

In August 2014, Paterson launched the Future Library project (NO:Framtidsbiblioteket), a 100-year-long artwork in Oslo's Nordmarka forest and New Public Deichmanske Library^{[1][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]} and announced Margaret Atwood as the first writer.^[34]

Awards

• First artist-in-residence in the Astrophysics Group within University College London (UCL) Physics & Astronomy
• South Bank Sky Arts Award 2014 for visual art and
• Leverhulme Fellow, University College London
• Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh (2013)
• Spirit of Scotland Award 2014 ^[35]

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