Born 1975 in Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in the world
EDUCATION
2013 Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA (MOOC: Introduction to Complexity)
2004-06 Cornell University, New York, USA (Fulbright Scholarship)
1997 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany (Erasmus Scholarship)
1994-98 National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (B.A. in History of Art and Fine Art)
MUSEUM SOLO EXHIBITIONS *Exhibition accompanied by printed matter
2012 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA (June 15 - September 9, 2012) *
2010 Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland (January 28 - April 2, 2010) *
2009 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA (August 2 - October 25, 2009) *
2008 Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada (November - December 2008)
Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
2007 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA (May 18 - August 5, 2007) *
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection) *Exhibition accompanied by printed matter
2021 Irish Tree Alphabet, VISUAL Carlow, Carlow, Ireland (July 13 - October 18)*
2019 Love Letters, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Leitrim, Ireland (June - July)
2017 We the People, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany (May 19 - July 14) *
#RiseResistRepeat, Rawson Projects, New York, USA 2014 2014 Linea: Katie Holten + Mariateresa Sartori, BOSI Contemporary, New York, USA (April 27 - May 31) *
2013 Crack in the Real, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany (November 8 - December 21, 2013. extended to Jan 10, 2014)
2012 Katie Holten, FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic (September 11 - November 25, 2012)
2010 2010, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany (June 11 - July 17, 2010)
The Golden Bough II, LMAKprojects, New York, USA (February 20 - March 28, 2010)
2009 Tree Museum, Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York (Commissioned public artwork)
Katie Holten: Tree Museum, Wave Hill, New York, USA *
2008 uprooted, Gasser & Grunert, New York, USA
2007 The Best’s To Come, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany *
Katie Holten, Schürmann Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2006 700% PLUS, KBH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark *
GRAN BAZAAR, Centro Histórico, Mexico City, Mexico *
2005 One Fine Day, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany
A New Universe, LMAKprojects, Brooklyn, New York *
2003 Laboratorio della Vigna, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy *
A Recent History of what’s possible, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland *
2002 137.5°, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland *
2001 The Garden, The Kids, The Tiramisú and other failed projects, Context Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland *
1999 Some Grand Plans, The Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2022 Forest Through the Trees, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (August 27 - December 11, 2022)
Drawings: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA (July 30, 2022 - January 1, 2023)
2019 Stance & Fall: A Wavering World, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany (June 29 - October 6, 2019)
2018 Phantoms of Perception, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany (October 27, 2018 - January 27, 2019)
Power to the People, SCHIRN Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (March 21 - May 27, 2018)
City As Ecosystem, Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York (September 13 - November 23, 2018)
Les Calanques, FRAC PACA, Marseille, France (March 10 - April 8, 2018)
2017 Art and Alphabet, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (July 21 - October 25, 2017)
Nasty Women, The Knockdown Center, Queens, New York, USA (January 12 - 15, 2017)
2015 About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland (October 16, 2015 - January 24, 2016)
Elective Affinities, NCCA, Moscow, Russia (November 27 - January 31, 2016)
Cyborg, Zurcher Gallery, New York (December 2015)
A Generative Library, Büro BDP, Berlin, Germany (January 31 - February 28)
2014 1st Cartagena Biennale, Cartagena, Colombia (February 7 - April 7)
2013 Sensing Change, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA (July 2013 - May 2014)
Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium (February 27 - May 19)
A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, NY, USA (March 2 - May 31)
2012 Into the Light, Model Arts Center, Sligo (December 7 - March 24)
Uncharted, Marina Cain Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (Sep 13 - Oct 27)
SURFACE TENSION, Eyebeam, NY, USA (May 29 - Aug 11)
Light and Landscape, Storm King Arts Center, NY, USA (May 12 - Nov 11)
Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (April 26 - Sep 16)
Amid A Space Between, SFMOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (March 8 - April 19)
2011 Streams of Consciousness: The Histories, Mythologies and Ecologies of Water, Salina Art Center, KS (Nov 10 2011 - March 11 2012)
SURFACE TENSION: The Future of Water, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (Oct 20, 2011- Jan 20, 2012)
Dublin Contemporary, streets of Dublin, Ireland (September 5 - October 31)
Twenty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (May 27 - October 31)
No One is an Island, LMCC Art Center, Governor's Island, NY, USA (May 27 - July 4)
You Are Here, l'Escaut, Brussels, Belgium (April 22 - May 14)
Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, NY, USA (March 16 - April 21)
NY/Prague 6, Czech Center, NY, USA (January 13 - February 24)
2010 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA (Nov 7, 2010 - Feb 6, 2011)
NY/Prague 6, FUTURA Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (Sep 1 - Oct 31)
Close To Hand, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (July 23 - October 9)
Making Nature, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (June 9 - July 10. Extended to July 17)
Natura e Destino, Galleria Ricardo Crespi, Milan, Italy (April 13 - May 8) *
Landscapes of Quarantine, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY, USA (March 9 – April 20)
2009 The Dome Colony, X-INITIATIVE, New York, USA
Fri-Porto, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Subversive Spaces, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, UK (touring: Compton Verney, Sainsbury Center) *
Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany *
Here & There, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA *
Green Platform, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy *
Air Cube +, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Speak for the trees, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho *
Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland / Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris *
2008 Observing beast, time, evolution, Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany *
Implant, UBS Art Gallery, New York
Implant Redux, Horticultural Society of New York
Nature Interrupted, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Into The Trees, The Fields Sculpture Park, Art Omi, New York
Exploration, Droichead Arts Center/Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
2007 Art is Flowering, Pforzheim Kunstverein, Pforzheim, Germany *
Shifting Ground, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Re-trait, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Inter-Changes, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Greener Pastures, Permanent Midnight, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA
2006 CLUSTER, Participant Inc., New York, USA (curator)
the space between, Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin, Germany
Soft Sites, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA *
ZOO: Logical Garden, Familie Park Harry Malter, Ghent, Belgium
Eigenheim, Göttingen Kunstverein, Göttingen, Germany
Anywhere But Where, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, USA
Among The Trees, Visual Arts Center, New Jersey, USA *
2005 Editionen, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Bucolica, Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA
Remote, LOT, Bristol, UK
Red White Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA
Trans-Atlantic, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
In India, Sanskriti Kendra Gallery, New Delhi, India
Remote Control, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK *
2003 Prague Biennale, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic *
Book Trade, Centre d'édition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Necessary Journeys, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland *
Appendiks, Thiemers Magasin, Copenhagen, Denmark
The National Gallery, The Return, Dublin, Ireland
2002 Archipelago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
Under Åpen Himmel, Kunstbanken Hedmark, Hamar, Norway *
Bloomsday#1:Dedalus, Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
Germinations 13, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland *
Print Triennial, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland *
2001 Drawn Out, London Print Studio Gallery, London, UK
3 Acres on the Lake, 312 Gallery, Chicago, USA *
Perspective 2001, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland *
EV+A, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland *
2000 Drawing Show, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
EV+A, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland *
PLOT, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Cork, Ireland
Crawford Open, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Multiples x 4, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1999 Utopias, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland *
EV+A, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland *
Pre Millennial Tension, Pallas Studios, Dublin, Ireland
1998 EV+A, Limerick City Hall, Limerick, Ireland *
SpielRaum, Quer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES (Selection)
2019 Residency, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Virginia, USA
Residency, Cill Rialaig, Kerry, Ireland
Residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland
Residency, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA
2018 Residency, Salmon Creek Farm, Mendocino, California, USA
Residency, Cill Rialaig, Kerry, Ireland
Art and Science Residency, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
2017 Arts and Humanities Residency, NYC Urban Field Station, New York, USA
Bursary, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
Visiting Artist Residency, American Academy at Rome, Rome, Italy (Deferred)
2016 Research Residency, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, New York, USA
2014 Walking Research Residency, Maumau, Istanbul, Turkey
Travel Award, The Arts Council, Ireland
2013 Research Residency, Venice, Italy
Residency, Cill Rialaig, Kerry, Ireland
2012 Bursary, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
Culture Ireland Award, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin, Ireland
Residency, A Studio in the Woods, New Orleans, USA
2011 Residency, Salina Art Center, Kansas, USA
Culture Ireland Award, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin, Ireland
2010 Project Award, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle EalaÃon, Ireland
Bursary, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
Resideny, Chateau Trebesice, Czech Republic
Culture Ireland Award, Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism, Dublin, Ireland
2009 Emergency Grant, Artists' Fellowship, Inc., New York, USA
Culture Ireland Award, Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Public Art Commission, The Greenwall Foundation, New York, USA
Swing Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
2007 Project Award, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
Culture Ireland Award, Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism, Dublin, Ireland
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, New Mexico, USA
2006 Nimoy Foundation Award, Los Angeles, California, USA
Travel Award, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
Residency, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2005 Pollock Krasner Award, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
Visual Arts Bursary, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
2004 Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Diageo Scholarship, The Fulbright Commission, Ireland
Research Funding, Contemporary Initiatives, Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Travel Award, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
Residency, Sanskriti Kendra Foundation, New Delhi, India
2003 CRC Grant, Dept. of Arts, Sport and Tourism, Ireland
Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
2002 Residency, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
AIB Award, AIB Bank Ltd., Ireland
Travel Award, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
Residency, The Heinrich Böll Cottage, Achill Island, Ireland
Residency, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland
2001 CRC Grant, Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Dublin, Ireland
Residency, Germinations 13, Antwerp, Belgium
2000 Visual Arts Bursary, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland
PUBLIC PROJECTS (Selection)
2018— Friends of Ardee Bog, Ardee Bog, Co. Louth, Ireland (Supported by the Peatland Community Engagement Scheme)
2018-20 New York City Tree Alphabet, New York City, USA (Commissioned by the NYC Urban Field Station through the artist in residence program)
2017 Tree Line Project, Dublin, Ireland (Commissioned by Mary Cremin and Oonagh Young, supported by The Arts Council of Ireland)
2016 Walk With Me, Offenbach, Germany (public realm project for Hidden View)
2014 Walks, New York, USA
Walks, Istanbul, Turkey
Wandering and Wondering, Storm King Arts Center, New York, USA
2013 Ten Years Later, Venice, Italy
Factory Garden, Derry, Northern Ireland (artists' garden commissioned by Derry: UK City of Culture)
2011 On the Nature of Things, streets of Dublin, Ireland (public realm project for Dublin Contemporary)
In Back of the Real, Brooklyn, New York, USA (ISCP offsite project curated by Necmi Soenmez)
'09-10 Tree Museum, Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York, USA
2006 GRAN BAZAAR, Centro Historico, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Dreamland Artist Club, a CREATIVE TIME project, Coney Island, New York, USA
Vinyl, Christian Brothers School, Cork, Ireland
2002 Arabidopsis, Temple Bar Square, Dublin, Ireland
Bog Awareness, Dundalk Insitute of Technology, Ireland
retur, Public art project, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 Bog Garden, ACNI and The Women’s Centre, Derry, Northern Ireland
PLOT, Water Street Flea Market, Pennsylvania, USA
1999 Bog Remix, Howard Gardens, Cardiff, Wales
1998 First Movement, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
LECTURES / Panel Discussions / Visiting Artist (Selection)
2022 World Voices Festival, PEN America, New York, NY, USA (Panel discussion with Eileen Myles & John Freeman) LIT: Literature and Ireland’s Trees, Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland (Symposium)
Learning to be Better Lovers, New School of the Anthropocene, London, UK (Curriculum & Walks)
Hedge School, Dublin, Ireland (Zoom talk)
2021 Stanford University, California, USA (Lecture & Walk)
Studio for Sustainability & Social Action, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA (Zoom talk & walk)
2020 Cornell University, New York, NY, USA (Studio Visit)
2019 Art in the Anthropocene, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Conference)
The Nature of Cities, Sorbonne, Paris, France (Conference)
Cornell University, New York, NY, USA (Studio Visit)
2018 Economy and Society Summer School, Blackwater Castle, Cork Ireland (Salon and Reading Group)
Cornell University, New York, NY, USA (Lecture)
2017 Cornell University, New York, NY, USA (Lecture)
Hands off Our Revolution: The Role of Activism Today, Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA (Panel discussion)
Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY, USA (Artist talk)
2016 Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA (Artist talk)
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA (Visiting artist)
Spike Island, Bristol, UK (Artist talk)
Book Culture, New York, NY, USA (Conversation with Amy Harmon and Aengus Woods)
Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY, USA (Artist talk)
2015 The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA (Conversation with John Holten and Jessamyn Fiore)
Book Court, New York, NY, USA (Conversation with Daniel Smith)
MoMA PS1, Queens, NY, USA (Conversation with Will Corwin, Amy Harmon, Prem Krishnamurthy, Aengus Woods and others)
Cornell University, New York, NY, USA (Lecture and tutorials)
Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY, USA (Artist talk)
2014 Public Art and the Environment, Drew University, NJ, USA (Panel discussion)
Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY, USA (Artist talk)
Creative Climate Salon, Human Impacts Institute, New York, NY, USA (Panel discussion)
2012 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA (Public lecture)
2011 SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (Public Lecture)
CalArts, Los Angeles, CA, USA (Lecture and tutorials)
Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS, USA (Lecture and tutorials)
Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, USA (Panel discussion and lecture)
2010 Illuminating The Science: Art and Climate Change, CUNY Grad Center, New York, NY, USA (Symposium)
Is There An Ecological Unconscious? College of New Rochelle, NY, USA (Panel discussion)
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (Public lecture)
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland (Public lecture)
2009 Tipping Point, LDEO, Columbia University, NY, USA (Conference)
LAND/ART, Albuquerque Museum, NM, USA (Symposium)
INTERSECTIONS, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, USA (Symposium)
Tuesday Talk, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (Public lecture)
2008 Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, USA (Conference)
National Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark (Lecture and tutorials)
Bard / International Center of Photography, NY, USA (Tutorials)
2007 Do You Speak Art, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland (Symposium)
2006 California Institute of the Arts, California, USA (Lecture and tutorials)
2005 COZSSA II, British Embassy, Accra, Ghana, West Africa (Conference)
GATHERINGS AND CURATED PROJECTS
2014 - Ongoing, Sunday Salons, The Loft, New York, NY, USA
2014 A Blast from the Past with Jessamyn Fiore, The Loft, New York, NY, USA
To Serve with Chloe Piene, The Loft, New York, NY, USA
2012 The Readymades with John Holten, The Loft, New York, NY, USA
2006 CLUSTER, Participant Inc., New York, NY, USA
CLUSTER, Espacio El Particular, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 CLUSTER, Bowes Pub, Dublin, Ireland
MONOGRAPHS
2007 VAN HORN zeigt Katie Holten, VAN HORN Press / Revolver, Dusseldorf, Germany
Katie Holten: Paths of Desire, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, USA
2002 Katie Holten and others, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
ARTISTS BOOKS (Selection)
2023 The Literature of Trees, Tin House, USA (Publication: April 4, 2023)
ABC of NYC Trees, New York, USA (Forthcoming)
2015 About Trees, Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, Germany (Reprinted 2016)
2011 Old News, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Uprooted, NY, USA
2006 GRAN BAZAAR, Mexico City, Mexico
Native, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Eigenheim, Berlin, Germany
En Upassende Sanded, Paris, France
2005 Now, while you can, NY, USA
2003 PAPERS, Venice, Italy
notional, a Coracle Press book published by the Butler Gallery, Ireland
Procumbent Notions, Ardee, Ireland
2002 PLOT: A Manual, Museum of Contempoary Art, Denver, CO, USA
Bypass, Dublin, Ireland
ESSAYS IN EXHIBITION CATALOGUES / BOOKS (Selection)
2015 Peter Fischer and Brigitt Burgi, "Thinking About Trees", About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2014 Andrew Brown, Art & Ecology Now, Thames and Hudson, London, UK
Kathy Battista, "Drawn Together", LINEA: Katie Holten and Mariateresa Sartori, BOSI, NY, USA
Katie Holten and Sarah Sze in Conversation, LINEA, BOSI Contemporary, NY, USA
Berta Sichel, Cartagena Bienal, BIACI, Colombia
2012 Katie Holten, "Nothing From Nothing," Making the Geologic Now, Punctum Books, NY, USA
2011 Sean Kissane, "Katie Holten," Creative Ireland, Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2010 Ilaria Gianni, Natura e Destino, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, Italy
2009 Bill Gilbert, LAND/ART, Radius Books / University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
Sergio Bessa, Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100, Fordham University Press, NY
Ulrike Groos, Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
Valentina Gensini, Green Platform, Palazzo Strozzina, Florence, Italy
Arno Kramer, Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2008 Sabine Kunz, Observing Beast, Time, Evolution, Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
2007 Elizabeth Heine, Art is Flowering, Pforzheim Kunstverein, Pforzheim, Germany
2006 Sally O'Reilly and Katie Holten, "A Discussion of Substance", GRAN BAZAAR, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Paul Gregg, Trans-Atlantic, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Helen Jones, Remote Control, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2003 Francesco Bonami, Venice Biennale: Dreams and Conflicts, Marsilio/Skira, Milan, Italy
Giancarlo Politi, Prague Biennale 1, National Gallery of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Kati Kivinen, Germinations 13, Antwerp, Belgium
2001 Salah M. Hassan, EV+A: expanded, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
1999 Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, EV+A: reduced, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS IN MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS (Selection)
2022
My Cultural Life, Katie Holten, Sunday Independent, September 4, 2022
First Look: The Language of Trees, Orion Magazine, August 2022
Meet the artist translating Ulysses into an Irish tree language, Sínann Fetherston for RTÉ, July 31, 2022
2021
Monika Fabijanska and Katie Holten in Conversation, in Roots/Anchors, December 2021
Roots/Anchors, Lilly Wei in The Brooklyn Rail, December 2021
Love, Art and Politics Intertwined, Charlotte Kent in Hyperallergic, December 1, 2021
Katie Holten and Kerri ní Dochartaigh in conversation, Solas Nua, November 14, 2021
Ardee Bog Inspired Artist Katie Holten’s Work and Activism, Margaret Roddy in The Argus, August 18, 2021
The Irish Tree Alphabet and Art as Environmental Activism, Ellie O’Byrne in Irish Examiner, August 13, 2021
An(other) Interview with Katie Holten, Amy Brady’s Burning Worlds, June 2021
2020
Trees Breathe Out. We Breathe In, Katie Holten in Writers Rebel, December 2020
Deciphering Words in the Woods: A New Irish Tree Alphabet, Katie Holten in Emergence Magazine, November 2020
Katie Holten, Declan Long in ARTFORUM, October, 2020
Katie Holten: Irish Tree Alphabet, Cristin Leach in The Sunday Times, October 4, 2020
Words Matter: Why I made a new Irish Tree Alphabet, Katie Holten in the IRISH TIMES, September 30, 2020
On Planting Seeds, Excavating Language, and the Politics of Place, Katie Holten in conversation with Kerri ní Dochartaigh, LITHUB, September 2020
VOICES ON ART, Katie Holten in conversation with Daniela Steinfeld for the VAN HORN podcast, August 2020
How to Write a Forest, by Jessica Traynor for The Irish Times, April 30, 2020
Forest, by Forrest Gander and Katie Holten for Emergence Magazine, February 2020
2019
Ireland Declared a Climate Emergency. So Why Are We Building a Road Through a Bog? by Katie Holten, Medium, September 13
Women Who Speak for Urban Trees and Plants, by Georgia Silvera Seamans for Local Ecologist, May 21
Five Books About Being A Tree, by Max Porter for Book Marks / LitHub, May 14
Interview with Katie Holten, by Amy Brady for Burning Worlds, March 2019
The Truth About Trees, Sonja Dümpelmann and Katie Holten in Conversation, Urban Omnibus
An Alphabet Made of New York City Trees, Allison Meier, Hyperallergic
NYC is planting secret messages in parks using this typeface for trees, Mark Wilson, FASTCOMPANY
A is for Ash, B is for Birch, Azi Paybarah, The New York Times
2018 Lucy Purdy, Positive News, Artist Creates NYC Tree Alphabet
Andrea Richter, Deutschland Funk, Artist Katie Holten Against Trump
Natalie Wichmann, SCHIRN MAG, Talkin' 'bout A Revolution
Catherine Hickley, The New York Times, Protesting Artists Step Off the Streets and Into the Gallery
Laurence Cornet, Photographic Museum of Humanity, Visualising the Challenges of the Anthropocene
2017 Alexandra Wach, DIE WELT, Was man zum Marschieren braucht
Anna Furman, The Guardian, Nasty Women Art Exhibit Aims at Taking Power Back from Trump
2016 Stephen Sparks, LITHUB, Katie Holten on Turning Words and Paragraphs into Whole Forests: An Interview
Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA, Reading The Tree Leaves, with an Artist's Invented Tree Font
2015 Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG, Typographic Forestry and Other Landscapes of Translation
Meg Miller, FAST CO DESIGN, For Naturephiles Only: A Typeface Made Of Trees
Katrine Ogaard Jensen, Asymptote, Translating Borges into Trees: An Interview with Katie Holten
2014 William Corwin, Katie Holten and Mariateresa Sartori, The Brooklyn Rail, June
Greg Mania, Interview with Katie Holten and Mariateresa Sartori, CREEM Magazine, May
Timotheus Vermeulen, Katie Holten, FRIEZE D/E, March/April
2013 Andrea Gyordy, Katie Holten: Critics Pick, ARTFORUM.com, December
Valerie Connor, Ten Years Later, Visual Artists Newsletter, October
Interview with Katie Holten, GreenO.it, January
2012 Katie Holten: 500 Words, ARTFORUM.com, July
Katie Holten, Ebb and Flow, Visual Artists Newssheet, May/June
Susan Hodara, Finding in Sunlight a Sound and a Taste, The New York Times, June 24
Doug McCash, Irish Artist's Edgy Landscape Drawings at NOMA, The Times Picayune, June 15
Robert Sullivan, Full Spectrum, VOGUE.com, May
2011 Robert Sullivan, Trees and the Bronx, A Public Space, issue 13, pp. 51-63
2010 Kathleen Madden, Interview with Katie Holten, un magazine, issue 4.1, pp. 70-73
Tony Ozuna, New York State of Mind, The Prague Post, September 22
Christine Hoffmans, Versuch die Welt zu Retten, Welt am Sonntag, July 18
Ginger Strand, A Paved Paradise with Trees, ORION, May/June issue, pp. 64-67
Maeve Connolly, Katie Holten, ARTFORUM, April issue, pp.207-208
Jackson McDade, Lore and Ore, ArtSlant, March 21
Jane Harris, Katie Holten, Art in America, February issue, pp.117-118
Belinda McKeon, Where the trees tell the Bronx tales, The Irish Times, January 22, p.16
2009 Ian Frazier, Dial-A-Tree, The New Yorker, July 20, pp.26-27
Jim Dwyer, A Museum of Trees that Speak of History, The New York Times, June 7, pp.1-2
Katja Behrens, Katie Holten, Compilation, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, pp.87-94
Emily Hulme, Trees Tell 100 Bronx Tales, AM New York, June 19, p.27
Amy Zimmer, The Bronx Turns into Interactive Museum, METRO, June 15, p.4
Nicola Twilley, The Tree Museum, BLDG BLOG, June 21
Jessica Gross, The Tree Museum on the Grand Concourse, Time Out New York
2008 Mattias Merkel Hess, Confronting the Planet, MAMMUT, Issue #1, pp.3-6
Tim Maul, Katie Holten: Uprooted, CIRCA, summer 2008, pp.92-93
Ingrid Chu, Implant, Time Out New York, Aug 28 - Sep 3, p.108
2007 Noemi Smolik, Katie Holten, ARTFORUM, September, pp.481-482
2006 Elizabeth Schambelan, Best of 2006, ARTFORUM, December 2006, p.284
Caroline MacKinnon, Recycled Art for Sale, The Herald, Mexico City, p.4, 25.07.06
2003 Cristin Leach, Katie Holten, The Sunday Times, Culture Section, Irish Edition, 26.10.03, p.14
Marcia E. Vetrocq, Venice Biennale, Art in America, September issue, pp.77-87
Waldemar Januszczak, Venetian Bind, The Sunday Times, Culture sect, 22.06.03, pp.6-7
Aidan Dunne, Katie Holten, The Irish Times, Dublin, 26.04.03, p.6
2002 Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Related Matters, Katie Holten and others, TBG&S, Dublin, pp.17-22
2001 Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Up the Garden Path, In Context, Derry, pp.2-3
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
The Arts Council of Ireland
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
European Patent Office, Munich, Germany
Villa Merkel / Stadt Esslingen, Germany