Katrina Moorhead arned a B.A. (1994) and an M.F.A. (1996) from the Edinburgh College of Art. She has participated in numerous residencies including the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, (1996-1998), ArtPace in San Antonio (fall 2005), and the SIM Gueststudio, Reykjavik – Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (2006). Important recent exhibitions include her solo exhibition A Thing Called Early Blur at the Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston (2007); the group exhibition Second Nature: Contemporary Landscapes from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the group exhibition The Luxury of Dirt, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland (2011); and the group exhibition The Nature of Things, in which she represented Northern Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale. In 2007 Moorhead won the prestigious Texas Art Prize (a biennial award hosted by ArtHouse, Austin), and in 2008 was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painters and Sculptors. Katrina Moorhead lives and works in Houston, TX.
Katrina Moorhead
Studios
Eastman
Katrina Moorhead worked in the Eastman studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…