Katherine Gan (they/them) is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY with a focus on poetry and film photography. They also have experience with digital art, installation, and performance. Katherine seeks to center queer and trans people of color in their work, particularly with a focus on intimacy and care.
They are a 2024 Keepsake House Artist in Residence and 2023 Brooklyn Poet Fellow. Katherine’s art has been supported through scholarships from The Poetry Project, Poets House, Hudson Valley Writing Center, Textile Arts Center, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Their super 8 film "Friday in Flushing" screened at MoMA through MONO NO AWARE.
Katherine graduated from Duke University in May 2022 as Robertson Scholar and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow with a B.A. in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and a minor in History. They won the 2022 Honor’s Thesis Distinction Prize for their 134-page thesis "Excavating the Afterlives of Empire through Asian/American Women’s Aesthetics & Poetry."