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b. 1969 Arlington, Massachusetts
Katy Grannan was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, in 1969. She received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, an M.A. from Harvard University in 1993, and an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University in 1999. For Katy Grannan: Dream America, her 2000 solo show at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York, the artist placed advertisements for models in a Poughkeepsie newspaper. Appearing at the homes of those who responded with her camera and a fan, she invited her subjects to participate in deciding how they would be photographed. Many of the resulting color prints show these ordinary people naked and provocatively posed. The artist rendered similar pictures in black-and-white for Morning Call (2001). In the 2003 series Sugar Camp Road, she coaxed her scantily clad subjects out of doors, photographing them in forests or along country roads.
Grannan has had solo exhibitions at Fifty One Fine Art Photography in Antwerp (2001 and 2003) and the Arles Photography Festival (2004), among others. Her work has also appeared in Reflections Through a Glass Eye at the International Center of Photography in New York (2000), Casino 2001 at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuel Kunst in Ghent (2001), and the Whitney Biennial (2004). Grannan received a Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant in 1999. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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