Katarina Holbrough

“It is not lack of cleanliness or health that causes abjection but what disturbs identity, system, order.” Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Columbia University Press, 1982.

A projected world of nocturnal ephemeral spaces, Holbrough’s work delineates identity in a trans-corporeality. The liminal transaction of food and consumption, self and environment, exploring ideas of abject corporeality. Flora permeating the spatial divide cast by urban life, confronting the separation of environment and body. Using repetition, local edible flora, and exaggerated abstract forms, Holbrough is amending her relationships with identity and how spaces interact with bodies.

2019 Diploma, Art Foundations, Humber College, Toronto, On

2022, Certificate, Marketing, UFT Rotman Business School, Toronto, On

2023 HBA, Criticism and Curatorial Practices with a Minor in Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

2024
Artist Project, Tkaronto, On
To Search for the Source of One's River, She Said Gallery, Tkaronto, On
Art Intelligence, Gallery 1313, Tkaronto,On

2023
Node, Red Head Gallery, Tkaronto,On
Art On A Postcard, AOAP, London, UK
Why Do You Create?, VAM, Mississauga, ON
Partial Gallery OCAD U Showcase, Partial Gallery, Tkaronto,On
GradEx 2023, OCAD U, Tkaronto,On

2022
Metamorphosis, The Great Hall, OCAD U, Tkaronto,On
Partial Gallery OCAD U Showcase, Partial Gallery, Tkaronto,On
Riverdale Artwalk, Artist Network, Tkaronto,On

2019
Art à la Carte, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Tkaronto,On
Landscape Show, J.E.H Macdonald’s House, Vaughan, ON

CURATING WORK
2023
Wet Ontology, Toronto, ON
guides, Deniz Bodi, She Said Gallery, Tkaronto,On
nibi, Alexis Nanibush-Pamajewong, She Said Gallery, Tkaronto,On
Fresh Cut Flowers in Every Room, Hayley Axelrad, She Said Gallery, Tkaronto,On

2022
Identity; the shared ecological development, OCAD U Gallery Artwalk, Tkaronto,On
Metamorphosis, The Great Hall, OCAD U, Tkaronto,On


PUBLICATIONS
2024
Petal Project, Issue 09
CBC Arts, Eye Candy
ArtToronto, What to See This Weekend

2023
Addition Magazine, Issue 1
Partial Gallery, Curatorial Showcase
GradEx 108, Student Highlights