EDUCATION

2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2008 School of Library and Information Science, San Joe State University, San Jose, CA 

2005 Master of Fine Arts, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

2004 Summer Architecture Intensive, Columbia University, New York, NY

2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI


ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2018 Soulangh Artist Village, Tainan, Taiwan

2011 Bblackboxx, invited by Heath Bunting, Basel, Switzerland

2009 The Banff Centre, Thematic Residency: Why are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? Because They Think it is a Good Idea, led by Jan Verwoert, Banff, Alberta, Canada

2008 Program Initiative for Art and Architecture Collaborations, Collaboration with Bryan Boyer, Berlin, Germany

2004 The Banff Centre, Self Directed Residency, Banff, Alberta, Canada 

2000 Ox-Bow, Summer Fellowship, Saugatuck, MI


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions

2020  Yankee Candle, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California

2017 Rubbing the Internet Archive, Klowden Mann, Culver City, CA

Research, Private Places, Portland, OR

2016 Exegesis Eisegesis Encaustic, Klowden Mann, Culver City, CA

2015 Solo booth NADA NYC, Klowden Mann, New York, NY

2014 Altered State Library, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2013 Transtextuality (Senate Bill 48), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Journal of Rejected Research, Quint Gallery Restroom, La Jolla, CA 

Object Oriented Programming, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA

2011 Literaturwurst, Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA

Literaturwurst performance, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 

Abstractivism, Whittier Public Library, Whittier, CA

Gravity is Always Attractive, PØST, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Informel, Actual Size Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Architecture School Dropout, Southern California Institute of Architecture Cafe, Los Angeles, CA 

Ecstasy of Municipality, Whittier City Hall, Whittier, CA

Art As Experience, Whittier Public Library, Whittier, CA

2008 Librariana, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Katie Herzog: New Paintings, BucketRider Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007 Soft Philosophy, PawnShop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


Group Exhibitions

2022 The Land of Milk and Honey, MexiCali Biennial, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2020   Artists and Poems curated by Steven Wolkoff, Alexandra Wiesenfeld, Eugene Ahn, and Jenny Hager, suturo.com

          Flash Art Sale to Get Out The Vote, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019 UNTITLED, Klowden Mann, Miami Beach, Florida

Mom’s Historical Record, Sol Treasures, King City, California

Print Matters, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design, Wroclaw, Poland

HOME: narratives of time and belonging, Klowden Mann, New York, New York

Punk House vs. Dream House, organized by Kristin Calabrese, Joshua Aster and Torie Zalben, Serious Topic, Inglewood, California

“Distance” Works on Paper by Skowhegan Alumni, Dorsky Gallery,  Long Island City,  NY

Terms of Use, UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of Arts, Irvine, California

2018 EXPO Chicago, Klowden Mann, Chicago, Illinois

THE LIBRARIANS, San Diego County Library Spring Valley Branch, San Diego, California

Satellites, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, California 

The Agency of Art, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Round-trip Ticket Tainan-LA: Displaced Landscape, Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan, Taiwan

2017 Anger-Management Pop-Up Store, curated by Andrianna Campbell and Marilyn Minter, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 

Supercaliforniagilisticexpialibodcious, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

EX LIBRIS, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University Gallery, Orange, CA

2016 Artists & Language: Celebrating 50 Years of UC San Diego’s Visual Arts, Geisel Library, La Jolla, CA

Human Condition, curated by John Wolf, 2231 S. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Three, 508 Rope, Baltimore, MD

Drawn Together, Actual Size, Los Angeles, CA

High Desert Test Sites Gem and Mineral Expo, Riverside Studios, Los Angeles, CA

2014 4 Painters, The Property, Los Angeles, CA

Olly Olly Oxen Free, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Machine Project Field Guide to The Gamble House, Gamble House, Pasadena, CA 

Last Evenings On Earth, Ship on the Woods, San Diego, CA

Les Enfant Terribles, Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA

Gallery Tally: Calling For Gender Equity in the Art World, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA 

Two Degrees, UC San Diego Visual Arts Department, La Jolla, CA

Project LALO, Studio 1.1, London, England

2013 Margin Release Right, West LA College Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA Stable Mates, Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA

A Show for You, Insert Blanc Press HQ, Los Angeles, CA

Reanimation Library: Highland Park Branch, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA Anniversary, Actual Size, Los Angeles, CA

Drugstore Beetle II, Special Collections Library at CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

2012 Pushing Paradigms in Painting, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 

Movement, Anomalies and Distractions, Oxford University, Oxford, England

The Holodeck, PØST, Los Angeles, CA

Print Imprint, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 10-22-38 Astoria, FICTILIS, Seattle, WA

Vertigo, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA

Songs by the Demiurgic, 323 Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne, Los Angeles, CA and Chain Letter London

Group Show, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Surrogate Teacher, Los Banos Branch Library, Los Banos, CA

Cross-Disciplinary Productions, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Oak Park Print Invitational, Oak Park Library, Oak Park, IL

Hack, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Open Daybook Exhibition, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Like a Soft Summer Rain, PØST, Los Angeles, CA Waves, Adrian Piper, Los Angeles, CA

June Gloom, Country Club, Los Angeles, CA

2009 You Gave Me Brave, S1F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Bookish, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Literature As Exploration, The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada 

Vox V, juried by Ryan Trecartin and Larry Mangel, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA 

Anarchist Book Fair, San Francisco County Fair Building, San Francisco, CA 

Repeat Until, Compact Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008 Anarchist Book Fair, Southern California Library, Los Angeles, CA 

Cocktail Hour with Skip Arnold, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA 

Inevitable Continuum, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

Matryoshka, 922 Nolden Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

From Panic To Power, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

Alternative Places, Tom Bradley Wing, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, CA 

Staff Exhibition, Whittier Public Library, Whittier, CA

Kleveland, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Esta Loco, Pero No Es Pendejo, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2007 Circus Gallery Miami, Circus Gallery, Miami, FL

Circus Year, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Maximum of Maximums, Me and You Variety Candy, Los Angeles, CA 

The Greatest Generation, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Faculty Show, Mt. San Jacinto College Fine Art Gallery, San Jacinto, CA 

Women’s Work, CSU San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA

2006 LISSTEN’s Banned Books Week Conference, CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 

draw_drawing_2, The Foundry, London, England

Anywhere But Where, Circus of Books Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

In This House That I Call Home, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Ladyfest, Voz Alta, San Diego, CA

Supersonic, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA

On Transit:Visual Narratives in North America, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico

Happening Now, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Piñata Show, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY

2004 Pasale, Estacion Tijuana Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico

Spring Reverb, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

Curating

2017 Jean Lowe, Bottom Shelf Self: Trending Titles in the Civic Imaginary, Actual Size Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Broad Strokes: Women in Art, Whittier Public Library, Whittier, CA

2009 Conceptual Telegraphy and the Song of the Wind Through Its Wires, Workspace, Los Angeles, CA

2007 Corpus Humorous, Shatford Library, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA 2005 

Soft Radical, Compact Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS

2014 Finalist, Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY

2013 Nominee, Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art Award, Oakland, CA

2013 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, NY

2011 ARC GrantCenter for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Kickstarter Grant (to attend Cycling for Libraries)

2011 Finalist, Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY

2010 Finalist, The Cartier Award, Frieze Foundation, London, England

2007 Donald and Doris Fisher Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2005 Russell Grant for Graduate Research, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

2001 Florence Leif Award For Excellence In Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 

2000 Ox-Bow Summer Fellowship, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI

1997 Merit Scholarship, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA


SERVICE

2019-present Board Director, Parkfield Community Organization

2018-2019 Advisor, Shandon Unified School District Bond Oversight Committee, Shandon, CA

2017-2018 Board President, The Garden Co-op Nursery School, Los Angeles, CA

2013-2018 Board Director, Foundation for Monterey County Free Libraries, Salinas, CA

2009-2012 Organizer, Tom of Finland Foundation Library, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Graduate Student Representative, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

2003-2005 Volunteer at Volunteer San Diego, San Diego, CA

2001-2003 Volunteer at Free Arts For Abused Children, New York, NY


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Katie Herzog: Artist and Library Worker, Shoutout LA, July 20, 2020

California Artist Features John Birch Society History by Steve Byas, The New American, February 17, 2020 

Review: George W. Bush is her ‘blue boy.’ How artist Katie Herzog throws some Serious Shade by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2020 

Katie Herzog at Klowden Mann KCRW, January 21, 2020

Exegesis Eisegesis Encaustic, (book) essays by Carol Cheh, Mace Ojala, Blanca Pujols, and Kenneth Lapatin, Rebel Hands Press, 2019

Meet Katie Herzog, VoyageLA, March 4, 2019

Reforming the Digitized Experience: MFA Thesis Exhibition Explores ‘Terms of Use’ by Eashan Reddy Kotha, New University, February 12, 2019

Featuring: Katie Herzog Library as Incubator Project, by Laura Damon-Moore, October 26, 2017

Katie Herzog Wall Street International, September 27, 2017

Supercaliforniagilisticexpialibodcious at Human Resources, by Lorraine Heitzman, Art and Cake, September 5, 2017

Katie Herzog, Rubbing the Internet Archive, by Jody Zellen, August 31, 2017

None of Your Beeswax? Hardly.: “Exegesis Eisegesis Encaustic,” Katie Herzog with Andrew Choate at Klowden Mann Gallery by James Scarborough, The Huffington Post, June 19, 2016

Transtextuality (Senate Bill 48): Recovering and Reimagining Trans Histories, by Kelly Besser, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Archives and Archiving Issue, Duke University Press, Volume 2, Number 4, November 2015 

In Herzog’s Hands: Transtextuality (Senate Bill 48), by Jessica Lee Mathiason, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Archives and Archiving Issue, Duke University Press, Volume 2, Number 4, November 2015 

Trans Intelligentsia: A Western Pictorial? by Zowie Davy, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Archives and Archiving Issue, Duke University Press, Volume 2, Number 4, November 2015 

Review: At NADA Art Fair, Collecting for Pleasure, Not Status by Roberta Smith, The New York Times

, May 14, 2015 

Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Litwin Books, 2015

These 48 Trans Women and Men Changed the World, by Mitch Kellaway, The Advocate, November 20, 2014

Katie Herzog’s Psychedelic Libraries at Monte Vista Projects, by Kevin McMahon, Silverlake Blvd, March 2, 2014

Katie Herzog at Monte Vista Projects, ArtBlitz Los Angeles, February 25, 2014

Wikipedia Becomes a Battleground for Art Activism, by Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly, February 6, 2014 The Benefit of Friends Collected, interview with Sherin Guirguis, November 24, 2013

Artforum Critics’ Picks: Katie Herzog, by Natilee Harren, artforum.com, July 24, 2013

Katie Herzog at Night Gallery, by Geoff Tuck, Notes On Looking, July 21, 2013

Orlando in the Mist: The Work of Katie Herzog, by Nikki Darling, KCET Artbound, June 12, 2013

Studio Visit With Katie Herzog, by Aili Schmeltz, Los Angeles Art Resource, May 31, 2013 

Object-Oriented Programming, essays by Andrew Choate and Amelia Acker, Insert Blanc Press, 2013 

The Artist, Librarian, and Guerilla Girl Enthusiast, by Kate Torgovnick, kate-book.com, February 28, 2012 

‘Phone Books’ Speaks Volumes on Use of Library, by Thaddeus Miller, Los Banos Enterprise, April 8, 2011

Art Autre at Actual Size Gallery: Katie Herzog, by Arely Villegas, Art A L.A. Mode, August 26, 2010

Katie Herzog at Actual Size Gallery, by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2010

In Her Element, by Sandra T. Molina, Whittier Daily News, February 13, 2010

Katie Herzog, by Allison Gibson, DailyServing, January 2, 2010

Libraries As Art, by Sandra T. Molina, Whittier Daily News, February 2009

Katie Herzog: Librariana, by Mathew Timmons, Artweek, February 2009

Catherine Taft’s Round-Up of the Best Shows in LA, Saatchi Online, November, 2008

Library Staff Displays Artistic Side, Whittier Daily News, May 19, 2008

Bay Area Figurative Language, The Highlights, 2008

Girl Stories, by Robert Enright, Border Crossings Magazine, Winnipeg, Canada, 2006

On-Transit. Narrativas visuales en Norteamérica, by Jeff Ward, Crunch! eDitores, Mexicali, Mexico, 2005 M.F.A. Annual 2004, New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2005