KATY MARTIN is a visual artist whose work combines painting, photography, and performance. She also makes film and video.

She has been part of the Vision Festival since 2007, creating films, slideshows, and installations for the live music sets. In addition, she has collaborated with other Vision Festival artists, making two films (By Night–No Stillness co-directed with Miriam Parker and Underbrush with music by Matthew Shipp) and writing an essay, Art & Jazz as Dialogue, with Jo Wood-Brown that was published in Arteidolia.

Katy’s work has been exhibited at Fergus McCaffrey Gallery (New York and Tokyo); Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre (Paris); The Garage Art Center, The Clemente, The Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Saint Peter’s Church, PPOW Gallery, and The Tribeca Film Festival (New York); Alexander/Heath (Virginia); The Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia); The Harvard Art Museums (Boston); GalerieForum Am Meer (Berlin); Green Dog Arts (Belfast); The Beijing Audiovisual Center and The Art Museum of Shanghai University (China). It was also featured in Bomb Magazineand the Danish journal, Katalog. Awards include a residency in the Chinese painting department at Shanghai University College of Fine Art, a film preservation by Anthology Film Archives, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2008, through Artists Exchange International, Katy was invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a new work based on an object in their collection. She chose Fish and Rocks by the Chinese painter, Bada Shanren, and she has been influenced by his art ever since.

She is affiliated with Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris.