Katja Farin (b.1996 Los Angeles, CA)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and London, UK
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, 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, glowing hands and distorted bodies create the dreamlike dysphoric space that these androgynous figures embody.
Farin received a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 and is a candidate for an MFA degree from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Selected solo exhibitions include Friends Indeed (San Francisco), Era Gallery (Milan), Lubov (New York) and in lieu (Los Angeles). Their art has been included in group exhibitions at Pace Gallery (Hong Kong), Alexander Berggruen (New York), Beers (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 Taipei. They live and work in Los Angeles, CA and London, UK.
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Trickster’s Playground - Gaa Gallery New York, NY
2024 Blind Spot - Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan- Sept 14
2022 Counterfeit - Friends Indeed Gallery San Francisco, CA
Near Miss - BGSQD New York, New York
Mistakes for Small Talk - Prior Art Space Berlin, Germany
Soft Exit - Era Gallery Milan, Italy
2021 Growth in Absence - Era Gallery Milan, Italy
Hum of Virtue - in lieu Gallery, May 8 - June 19
2020 Lines From Arguments - Lubov Gallery NY Mar. 14 - Apr. 26
2019 Carry, Carries, Carried - In Lieu Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2025 SLADE School of Fine Art Degree Show London, UK
Collective Coma Arusha Gallery, London, UK
2024. All Walks of Life Pace Gallery Hong Kong
2023 Friends and Lovers Shulamit Nazarian July 15 - August 29
Katja Farin, Maria Farrar, Esme Hodsoll, Alyina Zaidi Alexander Berggruen
This Oyster is Our World COMA Gallery Sydney, Australia
2022
Eve Presents Second Edition Eve Leibe Gallery London, UK
THE DAY I SAW YOU: RETRATOS DE LA COLECCIÓN FUNDACIÓN AMMA AMMA Foundation San Luis Potosí, Mexico
2021
Wunder Woman: The Female Figurative Beers London Gallery
We Swam as Though the World Weren’t Ending Gallery Gertrude
All Tomorrow’s Parties Domicile (N.) Gallery July 10th -
2020
PAPA RAGAZZE! Nicodim Gallery
It’s a sad and beautiful world… Wilding Cran Gallery
Drive-By-Art: Public Art in this Moment of Social Distancing
2018
Give Plaza- in lieu Gallery
Tchotchke Reservoir Coyote
Juried Exhibition The New Wight Gallery, UCLA Lanka Tattersall
2017
Juried Exhibition The New Wight Gallery, Selected works by Sohrab Mohebbi
UCLA Scholarship Show New Wight Gallery Selected works by UCLA Faculty
2015
Juried Exhibition The New Wight Gallery, Selected works by Rita Gonzalez
Education
2025 University College of London: SLADE MFA Painting
2018 University of California Los Angeles BA Fine Art
Notable Press
2025 Jackson’s Blog “Inside the Sketchbook Katja Farin” Clare McNamara
2024 Contralylic Journal Feature
Greta C DPI Magazine 當盲點在框架之外：Katja Farin 的非二元審美共情
2023 New American Paintings #167
Selvin, Claire “From "All Walks of Life" Seven Artists on Painting Today” Pace Essays
2021 New American Paintings #157
Giaume, Giulia "Tour among 10 works not to be missed at the Miart 2021 art fair" Artribune Italy
Crain, Julia “Beyond Fluency-KatjaFarin” Pique Magazine, Issue 2. Print.
Antakly, Leila “Artist Katja Farin” Ninu Nina
2020 New American Paintings #151
Milbrath, Claire “Katja Farin’s Lines from Arguments” Editorial Magazine.
Cooper, Ashton “ArtForum Critics Pick: Katja Farin” ArtForum Magazine.
Kissik, Dean “30 Under 35 of 2020: Katja Farin Reimagines Figuration” Cultured Magazine
Awards
Hoyt Scholarship for the 2017-2018 UCLA Arts Scholarships
Residencies
Era Gallery Artist Residency May/June 2023
Asia Art Center Residency Program August 2024
PPP/Oostmeijer Residency Amsterdam, NL August/September 2022
Dune Shack Residency, Provincetown August 2021
Dumfries House Artist Residency, September - October 2018 Dumfries House in Cumnock, Scotland.
