Katerina Lanfranco is a Brooklyn-based artist known for her dynamic paintings, drawings, mixed media works, and sculptures. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, she spent her early childhood in Berlin, Germany, and her teenage years in Bangalore, India. She holds a BA in Art and Visual Theory & Museum Studies from UC Santa Cruz and earned her MFA in Studio Art (Painting) from Hunter College, City University of New York. ​Lanfranco’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Kupferstichkabinett Museum of Prints and Drawings in Berlin, and the Corning Museum of Glass. She has received numerous awards and residencies, including the Japan-US Creative Exchange Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Residency, Pollock-Krasner Fellowship at the Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, and the Tony Smith Award from Hunter College. Additional honors include the William Graft Memorial Fund Travel Grant to study High Baroque Italian painting and an exchange scholarship to study at UdK in Berlin, Germany. ​Her professional experience extends beyond the studio. Lanfranco founded Rhombus Space in 2013 and served as Chief Curator at Trestle Gallery from 2015 to 2018. She has been represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery since 2006. Her work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and internationally in Canada, Germany, Italy, and Japan, with notable solo shows including Waterstone: La goccia scava la pietra at the American Italian Heritage Museum, Nature Poems at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Mystic Geometry at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Efflorescence at the SCPS Gallery at Pratt Manhattan, Talk to the Moon at Day & Night Projects in Atlanta, Georgia, and Shadow Light at HOUSEGallery in Philadelphia.Lanfranco’s work has been featured in publications such as ARTnews, ARTinfo, and The New York Times. Alongside her studio practice, she has written about contemporary art for ArtBlog and POVarts.com and has been a guest artist and critic at institutions across the U.S