Katy Schimert

Working across a variety of media, including ceramics, sculpture, drawing, and  film, Katy Schimert uses fragments of personal experience as conceptual impetus. The intersection of the fine and decorative arts is a formal point of departure for Schimert. Densely layered, her work suggests sequences of cosmic events occasionally populated by ethereal human figures. The results are visually complex and formally succinct investigations, allowing her work, in various media, to meld together as an ongoing visual essay.

Katy Schimert lives and works in New York City. She was featured in Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, New York; Drawing as Practice, National Academy of Design, NY, New York; 1997 Whitney Biennial, NY, New York and the 1995 São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil. Select solo exhibitions include: The Octopus, University Museum of Contemporary Art at U-Mass, Amherst, Massachusetts and Oedipus Rex: The Drowned Man, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois. Her work has been exhibited by Derek Eller, NY, New York and David Zwirner NY, New York.

Schimert is a 2020 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship  and a 2023 Artist in Residence at The Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Schimert serves as Professor of Ceramics at Rhode Island School of Design.