Artist's Biography

50% of proceeds from this sale will directly benefit Crescent City, the inaugural production of The Industry, LA’s new home for experimental opera.

Katie Grinnan received her MFA from UCLA in 1999. At the heart of Katie’s work lies a fundamental interest in the relationship between sight and the kinesthetic and their resulting visual and structural translations. She has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria in New York; the Aspen Art Museum; and the MAK Center in Los Angeles. Grinnan has been included in many group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial; Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience at Modern Art Oxford; and The Artist’s Museum at MOCA, Los Angeles. Her work is included in collections at MOCA, the Hammer Museum, and LACMA, and she has been awarded a Guggenheim and a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship. Represented by Brennan and Griffin Gallery in New York, Grinnan lives and works in Los Angeles.

Curator's Biography

Crescent City is the inaugural production of The Industry, Los Angeles’ new home for experimental opera. Directed by Yuval Sharon and produced by Laura Kay Swanson, Crescent City is a hyper-opera featuring music by Anne LeBaron and libretto by Douglas Kearney. The Industry commissioned six visual artists – Mason Cooley, Brianna Gorton, Katie Grinnan, Alice Könitz, Jeff Kopp, and Olga Koumoundouros – to create a major new sculptural work for the immersive set of Crescent City. The production runs May 10-27 at Atwater Crossing. 50% of proceeds from the sale of works curated by Crescent City will directly benefit the production.