Kat Cutler-MacKenzie is an artist and art historian based in Margate, England. She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, that investigates artistic approaches to art history, with a focus on pedagogic technologies and modes of communication.
Kat works part-time at the radical art school Open School East.
Education
September 2016 - June 2021
MA Fine Art (Hons), The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
January - June 2019
Erasmus Exchange, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
September - December 2018
Erasmus Exchange, LUCA School of Art, Brussels
Exhibitions
2024
Limbo Project Space and Studios (Margate, England), performance of emotion
2023
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Edinburgh, Scotland), the body is a technoverse
Tab Lab, House of haeg (Lisbon, Portugal), Cámera Escura
Hidden Door Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), Hidden Door 2023
Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, Scotland), RSA New Contemporaries 2023
gr_und (Berlin, Germany), Bodies of Love
2022
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Edinburgh, Scotland), Residents ‘22
2021
Edinburgh Futures Institute (Edinburgh, Scotland), Challenges for The Future of Health
Alte Münze (Berlin, Germany), Corona Culture
FORMER Project Space (Brussels, Belgium), ohm
2020
Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland), MAFA F*CKERS
Tent Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland), Ceremonial
2019
Three Colt Gallery (London, England), Limehouse Open Salon
Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris, France), #P1PS Droits des femmes
2018
Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland), Trading Zone
REM Space (Istanbul, Turkey), Cachée
Checkpoint (Edinburgh, Scotland), The Curtain Club
The Sundeck (Margate, England), POW Thanet! International Women’s Week
The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow, Scotland), SyNERGy
2017
The Biscuit Factory (Edinburgh, Scotland), Edinburgh Students Arts Festival (ESAF)
The Number Shop (Edinburgh, Scotland), Cult Presents: National Anthem
2016
Crate Studios (Margate, England), Wearing Trousers
Grants and Awards
2023
Creative Scotland Open Fund for Visual Arts (Scotland)
Grant for Art History, Association for Art History (England/Italy)
The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation Grants for Analogue Photography (Scotland)
RSA Art Prize (Scotland)
Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award, Creative Scotland (Scotland)
2022
Hope Scott Trust Visual Art Grant (Scotland)
Doctoral and Early Career Research Bursary Award, Association or Art History (England)
2021
Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award, Creative Scotland (Scotland)
ESW Graduate Studio Award (Scotland)
RSA New Contemporaries 2023 (Scotland)
TSDAP New Graduates Catalogue: 2021 Edition
2020
The Astaire Prize (shortlisted) (Scotland)
Baldwin Brown Travelling Scholarship (Scotland/France)
2019
Student Experience Grant, The University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Residencies
2024
Shibboleth, Centre for Interpretation (Italy)
2022
Copper Leg Art Residency (Estonia)
2021
ESW/ECA Graduate Residency 2021 (Scotland)
Talks and Conferences
2023
Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh)
meeting the third person for the first time (collaborative talk with Ben Caro)
2022
Red Eye Hot House (Newcastle)
Staging a Gaze (collaborative talk with Ben Caro)
Edinburgh Film and Video Arts (Edinburgh)
Artist Talk: Staging a Gaze with Ben Caro and Kat Cutler-MacKenzie (collaborative talk with Ben Caro)
Association for Art History Annual Conference 2022 (London)
Research, Revolution and Reenactment in Spectacles without Objects (2016) by The International Institute for Important Items
2021
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Edinburgh)
‘Artists’ Talk — Brewis, Caro, Cutler-MacKenzie, Matthews, Wrang-Rasmussen’
2020
Emerging Perspectives Conference, Association for Art History (Edinburgh)
Locked in The Cabinet of Curiosities: Curation, Power and Identity in the National Museum of Scotland (collaborative paper with Ben Caro, cancelled due to covid-19)
8th Annual Euroacademia Conference (Venice)
The Monstrous Woman Goes Grey: Film, Feminism, and Performance Art
Kat works part-time at the radical art school Open School East.
Education
September 2016 - June 2021
MA Fine Art (Hons), The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
January - June 2019
Erasmus Exchange, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
September - December 2018
Erasmus Exchange, LUCA School of Art, Brussels
Exhibitions
2024
Limbo Project Space and Studios (Margate, England), performance of emotion
2023
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Edinburgh, Scotland), the body is a technoverse
Tab Lab, House of haeg (Lisbon, Portugal), Cámera Escura
Hidden Door Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), Hidden Door 2023
Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, Scotland), RSA New Contemporaries 2023
gr_und (Berlin, Germany), Bodies of Love
2022
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Edinburgh, Scotland), Residents ‘22
2021
Edinburgh Futures Institute (Edinburgh, Scotland), Challenges for The Future of Health
Alte Münze (Berlin, Germany), Corona Culture
FORMER Project Space (Brussels, Belgium), ohm
2020
Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, Scotland), MAFA F*CKERS
Tent Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland), Ceremonial
2019
Three Colt Gallery (London, England), Limehouse Open Salon
Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris, France), #P1PS Droits des femmes
2018
Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland), Trading Zone
REM Space (Istanbul, Turkey), Cachée
Checkpoint (Edinburgh, Scotland), The Curtain Club
The Sundeck (Margate, England), POW Thanet! International Women’s Week
The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow, Scotland), SyNERGy
2017
The Biscuit Factory (Edinburgh, Scotland), Edinburgh Students Arts Festival (ESAF)
The Number Shop (Edinburgh, Scotland), Cult Presents: National Anthem
2016
Crate Studios (Margate, England), Wearing Trousers
Grants and Awards
2023
Creative Scotland Open Fund for Visual Arts (Scotland)
Grant for Art History, Association for Art History (England/Italy)
The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation Grants for Analogue Photography (Scotland)
RSA Art Prize (Scotland)
Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award, Creative Scotland (Scotland)
2022
Hope Scott Trust Visual Art Grant (Scotland)
Doctoral and Early Career Research Bursary Award, Association or Art History (England)
2021
Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award, Creative Scotland (Scotland)
ESW Graduate Studio Award (Scotland)
RSA New Contemporaries 2023 (Scotland)
TSDAP New Graduates Catalogue: 2021 Edition
2020
The Astaire Prize (shortlisted) (Scotland)
Baldwin Brown Travelling Scholarship (Scotland/France)
2019
Student Experience Grant, The University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Residencies
2024
Shibboleth, Centre for Interpretation (Italy)
2022
Copper Leg Art Residency (Estonia)
2021
ESW/ECA Graduate Residency 2021 (Scotland)
Talks and Conferences
2023
Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh)
meeting the third person for the first time (collaborative talk with Ben Caro)
2022
Red Eye Hot House (Newcastle)
Staging a Gaze (collaborative talk with Ben Caro)
Edinburgh Film and Video Arts (Edinburgh)
Artist Talk: Staging a Gaze with Ben Caro and Kat Cutler-MacKenzie (collaborative talk with Ben Caro)
Association for Art History Annual Conference 2022 (London)
Research, Revolution and Reenactment in Spectacles without Objects (2016) by The International Institute for Important Items
2021
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Edinburgh)
‘Artists’ Talk — Brewis, Caro, Cutler-MacKenzie, Matthews, Wrang-Rasmussen’
2020
Emerging Perspectives Conference, Association for Art History (Edinburgh)
Locked in The Cabinet of Curiosities: Curation, Power and Identity in the National Museum of Scotland (collaborative paper with Ben Caro, cancelled due to covid-19)
8th Annual Euroacademia Conference (Venice)
The Monstrous Woman Goes Grey: Film, Feminism, and Performance Art