Katie Faust (b.1999)

Katie Faust (they/them) is a queer artist based in Paris, France, as well as Indianapolis, Indiana. They received a BA in Studio Art from Indiana University Bloomington, with a minor in Art History. Faust works primarily in painting and drawing, their preferred materials being oil paint, charcoal, pastel, and pencil.

Faust’s work explores the construction of identity beyond heteronormative expectations surrounding gender and sexuality. Centering portraiture, their practice examines how the self is shaped through both internal experience and external societal pressures. Drawing from personal experience as a queer and non-binary person raised in the Midwest, Faust investigates the tension between one’s authentic identity and the roles imposed.

Through subtle distortions of figure, proportion, and space, Faust creates works that gently disrupt a fixed sense of reality. These visual shifts invite viewers out of their own sense of reality, encouraging them to deepen their introspection and consider more expansive possibilities of identity and expression. 

Faust’s work ultimately seeks to cultivate a space for reflection and self-recognition, offering viewers an opportunity to engage more deeply with their own processes of becoming and to embrace more authentic forms of self-representation.

Solo exhibitions include Out of Bounds, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, and A Becoming, Mies van der Rohe Building, Indiana. Recent group exhibitions include Her Verses Unbound, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris; The Circle Show, The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis, Indiana; In the Path of Totality, The I Fell Gallery, Indiana, and Chroma, Indianapolis Art Center, Indiana. Faust was also awarded the Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship and the 5th Floor Scholar Residency at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France.