Katrina Palmer’s publications and exhibitions use storytelling and covert physical presences including found sites and unsettled objects.
She was the 2024 Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, culminating in her exhibition and book The Touch Report. Among her other solo shows are Four-Story, Flat-Roofed Complex in a Somewhat Expressionist Style at A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam in 2026, What’s Already Going On at the Mead Gallery in 2023, Hello, for England’s Creative Coast in 2021, The Necropolitan Line at Henry Moore Institute in 2015 and End Matter was produced by Artangel and BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
Further books are Black Slit, The Fabricator’s Tale, End Matter, and The Dark Object (Book Works, London), and she has contributed to publications including The Whitechapel MIT Documents of Contemporary Art series. Palmer received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2014 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sussex in 2023. She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art and after teaching at Ruskin, University of Oxford, she joined Slade School of Art, University College London, in 2022 where she is Head of Undergraduate Sculpture.
Her artworks are represented in collections at Touchstones Gallery, Southend Borough Council, The University of Leeds Special Collection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Arts Council England. In 2024 the National Gallery published a career survey monograph, Want to See Something Real.