Kat Lyons (b. 1991, Louisville, KY)
Kat Lyons (b. 1991, Louisville, KY) works through painting to interrogate the porous boundary between human and nonhuman life. Her staged compositions draw on medical imagery, agricultural history, folklore, and personal experience, often presenting theatrical vignettes populated by animals, plants, and hybrid forms. In this way, Lyons questions inherited systems of categorization, use, and value, confronting the violence of consumption while foregrounding the emotional complexity of animal life.
Recent solo exhibitions include Herd (Pilar Corrias, London, 2024) and CYCLES (Tank Museum, Shanghai, 2023). Earlier solo presentations include Early Paradise (Pilar Corrias, London, 2021) and Pantomimia (Deli Gallery, New York, 2019). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Pilar Corrias, London; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; and the Columbus Museum of Art, OH, among others.
Lyons’ work is held in the collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, ICA Miami, Blenheim Art Foundation (UK), K11 Art Foundation (HK), KADIST (Paris), and Yuz Museum (Shanghai), among others. She received her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Lyons lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.