Katie Armstrong (b. 1988) uses drawing, painting, animation, and performance to remember, understand, and communicate her emotions. She thinks with her hands, making work across many mediums to express what she struggles to explain. Under the moniker SOFTIE, she sells small batches of functional ceramics.

Education
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of Visual Arts, Visual and Critical Studies, New York, USA

Selected Exhibitions
2022
Grandma's Hair Is Sick Children's Book Presentation, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany (S)

2021
Where the spirit meets the bone, Kunstverein Munsterland, Coesfeld, Germany (S)

2020
A FRACTURED SIGH, BravinLee Programs, New York, USA
Ex-Files, One Mile Gallery, New York, USA

2019
Human Work, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany (S)
Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Galleria, New York, USA
Gaze Shift, Flatiron Gallery / School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
Evening Red, Museum Ship Lilac, New York, USA

2018
IRREGULAR MOVEMENTS, Galerie Bernau, Bernau bei Berlin, Germany

2017
ALL IN, Plug and Play, Berlin, Germany
Frauen im Krieg, Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany
YOUTOPIC, Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2016
IM KAFIG DER FREIHEIT, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
ping pong Basel, Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland
TRAILER, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig, Germany
Etching as Language, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA

2015
Soon / In That Place, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany (S)
Show me how, KN Raum fur Kunst im Kontext, Berlin, Germany
Walk the Line / Neue Wege der Zeichnung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
CLOUDBUSTING, KN Raum fur Kunst im Kontext, Berlin, Germany

2014
Dark Spring, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY (S)
Dark Spring, Galerie Eigen + Art LAB, Berlin, Germany (S)
Frank Hense Collection Presentation, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
Leipzig - City of Heroes?, Goethe Institute, Paris, FR

2013
Interlude, Presented by Galerie Eigen + Art and Axel Springer Plug & Play, Berlin, Germany (S)
On Paper, Galerie Eigen + Art LAB, Berlin, Germany
The Lure, Youme Haus, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Diff'rent Strokes, Louis B James Gallery, New York, NY
Animation and Video Works, Galerie Eigen + Art LAB, Berlin, Germany
"I thought of Frida Kahlo," Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

2011
Once More, Once More, BravinLee programs, New York, NY (S)
LABOR, Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin, Germany
Big Screen Plaza Video Program, NADA, Miami Beach, FL

Awards
2014
Stipendium Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany
2013
Artist in Residence, Axel Springer Plug&Play Accelerator, Berlin, Germany
2010
Artist in Residence, Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany

EMAIL: katie.armstrong.studio@gmail.com
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/s___o___f___t___i___e
SHOP: softie.biz

Katie Armstrong /// CV




i, i, i (the spiral)








the heart of it
another wall, another door







in that place
interlude







show me where it hurts