Katherine Masters

Katherine Masters (b. 1979 London, United Kingdom) is a conceptual artist and lives and works in Lisbon. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths University (Bachelor of Arts in Design) and Central Saint Martins (Postgraduate Certificate in Photography). She later studied Colour Theory in Practice at The Slade School of Fine Art and completed a Contemporary Art course at the Royal College of Art.

Before becoming an artist Katherine forged a successful career in publishing, working for publishing houses such as Condé Nast, Fairchild Publications, The National Magazine Company and Cedar Communications. This was an experience that would later inform her artistic practice.

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions; these include The Storyteller and the Sea, at the Farol Museu de Santa Marta and Museu do Mar, Lisbon (2011). In connection with this exhibition Katherine published a book on heroes of the sea. In the same year she collaborated with the NGO SOS Salvem o Surf (2011) on coastal sustainability projects. Other solo exhibitions include Sea in my Coffee, at Fundação Lapa do Lobo, Viseu (2024). More recently Katherine has exhibited as part of the collective ‘Art for Social Change’ in Sink or Swim at The Projection Room in the Unit...

Royal College of Art (RCA) Contemporary Art Course (2025)

UCL Slade (short courses in colour theory, drawing and painting 2022-2023)

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts
(Postgraduate Certificate in Photography 2010 - 2011)

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (ABC Award, Photojournalism)

Goldsmiths, University of London
(Bachelor of Arts Degree, Design 1999 - 2003)

University for the Creative Arts
(BTEC Diploma in Art and Foundation Studies 1998 - 1999)

2025-2026

Members' Exhibition
National Society of Fine Art in Lisbon

2025

Sink or Swim
The Projection Room. United Kingdom

2024

Arte na Freguesia Group Exhibition. Cascais Gallery.

2023

I’ll be here when you’re gone

International Landscape Photography Group Exhibition
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Glasgow, Scotland.


2023

By the Bay

Arte na Freguesia Group Exhibition

Galeria de Arte Cascais. Collaborative work proceeds were donated to Cercica. Cascais, Portugal.

2022

There She Was

Group exhibition and auction of artworks in support of Ukranian refugees

Galeria de Arte Estoril. Event sponsored by Junta de Freguesia de Cascais & Estoril, Camara Municipal de Cascais, Santa Casa de Misericórdia and Fundação Dom Luis. Estoril, Portugal.

2014

Museu do Mar Solo exhibit, ‘The Storyteller & the Sea.’ Cascais, Portugal.

Flat White Soho Solo exhibit, ‘Flat White’ at The Flat White Café. London, UK.


2011

Santa Marta Lighthouse (Museu Farol de Santa Marta) Solo exhibit of ‘The Storyteller & the Sea.’ Sponsored by the Cascais Council, Cascais.

British Council Lisbon Solo exhibit of ‘The Storyteller & the Sea’ at the British Council. Lisbon, Portugal.


2010

Central Saint Martins exhibit ‘Th...