Katelyn Ledford (b. 1994, Texas, USA) lives and works in Boston. She received her BFA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2017 and completed her M.F.A in Painting in Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Underbelly’ at Aishonanzuka, Hong Kong; ‘Plastic Smile’ at DUVE, Berlin. Ledford’s group exhibitions include: ‘In Crystalized Time’ at the Museum of Museums, Seattle; ‘A Vase Is a Vase Is a Vase’ at Deanna Evans Projects, New York; ‘Over the Borderline’ at Galeria Fran Reus, Palma De Mallorca; ‘Back Together’ at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston; ‘Cut, Copy, Paste, Plan’ at X Art Gallery, Milan; ‘CURE/rated: Bigotry, A Societal Cancer’ at House of Fine Art, London. Ledford’s work has been featured in notable art publications, such as Juxtapoz, The Art Gorgeous and Art Plugged.
Bringing a certain acid humor into her work, Katelyn Ledford combines shapes, symbols, and digital images to create deconstructed paintings, using oil, acrylics and unusual materials, including glass, plastic and buttons. Sharing personal and collective experiences, Ledford’s cynicism, self-deprecation, and even absurdity, makes vulnerability communicated more easily than usually expected.