Born and raised in South Orange, New Jersey, Katia now lives and works in the greater Philadelphia area. After receiving her B.A. in both Fine Art and English Literature at Colby College in Maine, she earned her M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions, as well as having been named artist-in-residence by multiple institutions.
Katia was also commissioned to design the program cover for the Grammy award-winning Emerson String Quartet's ongoing concert series at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Additionally, her painting Transfiguration (After Schoenberg's Transfigured Night) was selected by Sony Classical for the CD cover of the Emerson String Quartet's album, "Journeys". |