Articles, Interviews, Reviews, Podcasts (selection)
2024
Rewilding: Katie Holten and The Language of Trees, Katie Holten interviewed by Peter Streckfus, Asymptote, April 2024 (Forthcoming)
The Language of Trees, Brigid O’Dea, The Irish Times, February 17, 2024
2023
The Language of Trees, Prasenjit Chowdhury, Hindustan Times, November 11, 2023
The Language of Trees, Katie Holten, Writers Rebel, November 9, 2023
The Language of Trees, Gregory Day, The Saturday Paper, October 21, 2023
The Woods are Lovely, Srimoyee Bagchi, Telegraph India, September 22, 2023
Katie Holten’s New Book Addresses The Challenges Facing Planet Earth, Margaret Roddy, The Argus, July 24, 2023
One Woman’s Mission To Use The Language of Trees To Make The World A Better Place, Hilary White, Independent, July 23, 2023
Why I Created a New Alphabet Based on Trees, Katie Holten, The Scotsman, July 15, 2023
For the Love of Trees, Sarah Boon, Earth Island Journal, July 12, 2023
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape, Margaryta Golovchenko, ISLE, Volume 30, Issue 3, July 12, 2023
The Language of Trees, Katie Holten in conversation with Sarah Wilson, Roots and All Podcast, July 10 2023
The Language of Trees, Roger Cox, The Scotsman, June 27, 2023
Katie Holten’s Enriching Anthology Walks Us Through the Wonder of Trees from A-Z, Lucy White, Sunday Independent, June 25, 2023
The Language of Trees, Katie Holten in conversation with Helen Forester, Prompted by Nature Podcast, June 23, 2023
The Language of Trees, Hannah Beckerman, The Observer, June 18, 2023
The Language of Trees, Newly Published, New York Times Book Review, May 3, 2023
The Language of Trees, Susannah Felts, Book Page, May 2023
An Exquisite Ode to All Things Arboreal, Samantha Neugebauer, Washington Independent Review of Books, April 13, 2023
The Language of Trees Could Change How you Think About Nature, Kristen Millares Young, Washington Post, April 12, 2023
Leafing Through Forests in The Language of Trees, Elizabeth McNeill, Chicago Review of Books, April 12, 2023
The Language of Trees, Katie Holten in conversation with Philip McKenzie, Deep Dive Podcast, April 6, 2023
Branch Library, Brian Sholis, Frontier Magazine, April 5, 2023
Another World is Possible, Katie Holten, LitHub, April 4, 2023
The Language of Trees, Kirkus Review, January 21, 2023
LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023, LitHub, January 12, 2023
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 for 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 for Urban Omnibus, March 13
NYC is Planting Secret Messages in Parks Using this Typeface for Trees, by Mark Wilson for FAST CO DESIGN, March 12
An Alphabet Made of New York City Trees, by Allison Meier for Hyperallergic, February 24
A is for Ash, B is for Birch, by Azi Paybarah for The New York Times, January 23
Toward a Useful Ignorace, by Daegan Miller for The Point, Winter 2019
2018
Artist Katie Holten Against Trump, by Andrea Richter for Deutschland Funk, November 20
Visualising the Challenges of the Anthropocene, by Laurence Cornet for Photographic Museum of Humanity, November
Artist Creates NYC Tree Alphabet, by Lucy Purdy for Positive News, London, Issue #94, July - September
Talkin' 'bout a Revolution: Part Two, by Natalie Wichmann for SCHIRN MAGAZINE, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, April 24
Protesting Artists Step off the Streets and Into the Gallery, by Catherine Hickley, The New York Times, April 17
Talkin' 'bout a Revolution, by Natalie Wichmann for SCHIRN MAGAZINE, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, April 13
2017
Un alfabeto de árboles para redefinir el Antropoceno, by Javier Rada for 20 Minutos, September 8
Turning a new leaf – An Irishman’s Diary on James Joyce’s Dublin and the language of trees, by Frank McNally for The Irish Times, July 7
Was man zum Marschieren braucht, by Alexandra Wach for Die Welt, June 24
Nasty Women Art Exhibit Aims at Taking Power Back from Trump, by Anna Furman for The Guardian, January 13
2016
Katie Holten on Turning Words and Paragraphs into Whole Forests, interview with LitHub, July 27
Read the Tree Leaves, With an Artist's Invented Tree Font, by Ella Morton for Atlas Obscura, May 19
2015
About Trees by Katie Holten, by Stephen Sparks for The Improbable, October 18
For Naturephiles Only: A Typeface Made Of Trees, by Meg Miller on FAST CO DESIGN, August 31
Typographic Forestry and Other Landscapes of Translation, by Geoff Manaugh on BLDGBLOG, August 27
Translating Borges into Trees: An Interview with Katie Holten, by Katrine Ogaard Jensen in Asymptote, August 20
2014
Katie Holten and Mariateresa Sartori, by William Corwin in The Brooklyn Rail, June 2014
Katie Holten and Sarah Sze in conversation, in Linea, May 2014
Linea, interview with Greg Mania in Creem, May 2014
Katie Holten, by Timotheus Vermeulen in FRIEZE D/E, March 2014
2013
Katie Holten, by Andrea Gyorody on ARTFORUM.com, December 2013
Ten Years Later, conversation with Valerie Connor in Visual Artists News Sheet, Sep/Oct 2013
Interview with Katie Holten, by gReenO, January 2013
2012
Nothing From Nothing, by Katie Holten in Making The Geologic Now, published December by Punctum Books
500 Words, by Katie Holten on ARTFORUM.com, July 3, 2012
Finding in Sunlight A Sound and A Taste, by Susan Hodara in The New York Times, June 24, 2012
Irish Artist Katie Holten's Edgy Landscape Drawings at NOMA, by Doug MacCash in The Times-Picayune, June 15, 2012
Full Spectrum: A Light and Landscape Exhibition at Storm King Art Center, by Robert Sullivan in VOGUE, May14, 2012
Ebb and Flow, by Katie Holten in The Visual Artists' News Sheet, May/June 2012
2011
Trees and the Bronx, by Robert Sullivan in A Public Space, Issue 13, Summer 2011
Why Twenty Deserves its Personal Touch, by Aidan Dunne in The Irish Times, June 9, 2011
2010
New York State of Mind, by Tony Ozuna in The Prague Post, September 22, 2010
Versuch, die Welt zu retten, by Christiane Hoffmans in Welt am Sonntag, July 18, 2010
Interview, with Kathleen Madden in un. issue 4.1, Summer 2010
A Paved Paradise with Trees, by Ginger Strand in ORION, May/June 2010 and here
Katie Holten, by Maeve Connolly in Artforum, April 2010
Lore and Ore, by Jackson McDade in ArtSlant, March 2010
10 Years of the AIB Prize, by Frances Ruane in Irish Arts Review, Spring 2010
Katie Holten, by Jane Harris in Art in America, February 2010
Where the trees tell the Bronx tales, by Belinda McKeon in The Irish Times, January 22, 2010
2009
Tree Museum, How does art respond to and redefine the natural world? by Katie Holten on Art21, December 10, 2009
Dial-A-Tree, Talk of the Town by Ian Frazier in The New Yorker, July 20, 2009
Hear The Trees Talk, by Damon Beres and photos by David Handschuh in NY Daily News, June 23, 2009
The Tree Museum, by Nicola Twilley in BLDG BLOG, June 21, 2009
A Museum of Trees That Speak of History, by Jim Dwyer in The New York Times, New York, June 7, 2009
The Shadows of Trees, by Katja Behrens in Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, June 2009
Turning Over a New Leaf, by Rachel Wolff in ARTnews, New York, April 2009
A 100 Bronx Tales, interview with Ike Sriskandarajah for Living on Earth PRI's environmental news magazine, November 27, 2009
Trees Tell 100 Bronx Tales, by Emily Hulme, in AM New York, June 19, p.27
The Bronx Turns into Interactive Museum, by Amy Zimmer, in METRO, June 15, p.4
The Tree Museum on the Grand Concourse, by Jessica Gross in Time Out New York
Art in Late Summer, by Emily Warner in BOMBLOG, August 14
Tree Museum, by Kara Rota in Irish Central, August
2008
Confronting the Planet: An Interview with Katie Holten, by Matthias Merkel Hess in MAMMUT, Los Angeles, Fall 2008
Katie Holten: uprooted, by Tim Maul in CIRCA, Dublin, Summer 2008
Unearthly Delights, by Beth E. Wilson in Chronogram, Philadelphia, June 2008
Out on a Limb, by Richard Roth in Friday Independent, June 20, pp.21-36
Implant, by Ingrid Chu in Time Out New York, Aug 28 – Sep 3, p.108
Flora! Flora! Flora! It's Plants as Muse in a Big Group Show at a Manhattan Bank, by Leslie Camhi in The Village Voice, September 3
2007
Katie Holten, by Noemi Smolik in ARTFORUM, New York, October 2007
Replica of Uprooted Tree Speaks to Environmental Crisis, by David Bonetti in St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, May 2007
Paths of Desire, by Lia Gangitano in Paths of Desire, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, May 2007
2005
Trans Atlantic, by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith in Fulbright exhibition catalogue, Dublin, p.9
2006
A Discussion of Substance, a conversation between Sally O'Reilly and Katie Holten. Published in GRAN BAZAAR, Mexico City, 2006
Recycled Art for Sale, by Caroline McKinnon in El Universal, Mexico City, June 2006
Best of 2006, by Elizabeth Schambelan in ARTFORUM, New York, December 2006
LAMENT with Martha McDonald, by A.D. Amorosi in Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia, July 2006
CLUSTER, By Michael Wang in ARTFORUM, New York, February 2006
2004
Katie Holten's Work Unplugged, by Regina Gleeson. Published in Visual Artists' News Sheet, Dublin, January 2004
Globalisation's Impact on Art Practice, by Regina Gleeson, in CIRCA 108, Dublin, summer, pp.61-63
Irish Art in Europe, by Gemma Tipton in Irish Arts Review, Dublin, special EU Presidency issue
2003
Ireland at the Venice Biennale, by Joy Garnett. Published in NEWSGRIST, New York, June 2003
Venice Biennale: Katie Holten, by Fiona Kearney. Published in CIRCA Magazine, Dublin, Autumn 2003
Katie Holten, by Cristin Leach in The Sunday Times, Culture Section, Irish Edition, 26.10.03, p.14
Venice Biennale, by Marcia E. Vetrocq in Art in America, September issue, pp.77-87
Venetian Bind, by Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times, Culture sect, 22.06.03, pp.6-7
Katie Holten, by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith in Irish Arts Review, Dublin, summer issue, pp.54-55
Katie Holten, by Silvio Keller in DU, April issue; Venice Biennale supplement, Zurich, no.735, p.17
Katie Holten, by Aidan Dunne in The Irish Times, Dublin, 26.04.03, p.6
2002
Katie Holten at Temple Bar Gallery, by Catherine Lyons, in CIRCA Magazine, Dublin, Winter 2002
Related Matters, by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, in Katie Holten and others, Dublin, September 2002
2001
Up the Garden Path, by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith in in Context, Derry, pp.2-3
Katie Holten, by Max Andrews in Contemporary Visual Arts, London, issue 34, p.87
Exhibition Catalogues (selection)
2017
Ingrid Kölle, "Katie Holten", Art and Alphabet, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
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
Christopher Cook, Streams of Consciosness, Salina Art Center
2010
Ilaria Gianni, Natura e Destino, Galeria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, Italy
Bill Gilbert, LAND/ART, Radius Books / University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
2009
Anna Dezeuze and David Lomas, Subversive Spaces: Surrealism + Contemporary Art, University of Manchester, UK
Sergio Bessa, Intersections: The Grand Concourse at 100, Fordham University Press, NY, USA
Ulrike Groos, Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Valentina Gensini, Green Platform, Palazzo Strozzina, Florence, Italy
Suzanne Sbarge, Here & There, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Arno Kramer, Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2008
Elke Falat and Sabine Kunz, Observing Beast, Time, Evolution, Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum / Hildesheim Kunstverein, Hildesheim, Germany
2007
Elizabeth Heine, Art is Flowering, Pforzheim Kunstverein, Pforzheim, Germany
Katie Holten and David Hatcher, Natural Selection, Documenta XII magazine, Kassel, Germany
2005
Paul Gregg, Trans-Atlantic, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006
Angelique Campens, Zoo Logical Garden, Antwerp, Belgium
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
Laurie Palmer, 3 Acres on the Lake, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA
2002
Maurizio Cattelan and Bettina Funcke, Charley, PS1 Publication, New York, USA
Kati Kivinen, Germinations 13, Antwerp, Belgium
2001
Salah M. Hassan, EV+A: expanded, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
2000
Rosa Martinez, EV+A: Friends + Neighbours, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
1999
John Hutchinson, Utopias, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, EV+A: reduced, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
1998
Paul O'Reilly, EV+A: Circus ZZ, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland
Printed Matter (selection)
2015
About Trees, Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin
2011
Water Atlas of Dublin, New York
Water Atlas of Salina, New York
Old News #11a, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
uprooted, New York, USA
2006
GRAN BAZAAR, Mexico City, Mexico
Native, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
Eigenheim, Berlin, Germany
En Upassende Sanded, Paris, France
2005
now, while you can, New York, USA
2003
PAPERS, Venice, Italy
notional, Coracle Press, Kilkenny, Ireland
Procumbent Notions, Ardee, Ireland
2002
PLOT: A Manual, Museum of Contempoary Art, Denver, USA
Bypass, Dublin, Ireland
Monographs
2007
VAN HORN zeigt Katie Holten, VAN HORN Press / Revolver, Düsseldorf, Germany
Katie Holten: Paths of Desire, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2002
Katie Holten and others, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland