Katarina Janečková

Katarina Janečková Walshe (b. 1988 in Bratislava, Slovakia; lives in Corpus Christi, Texas) works across media, employing paper, canvas, bedsheets, and a wide array of mark-making tools to critique received notions of authentic culture, gender norms, sexual expression, and national pride. Her process is free-ranging and improvisational, and she uses her own sexuality, motherhood, and identity as a painter as characters in the often humorous and erotic scenes she envisions. Most recently she has trained her critical attention and transgressive methodologies on fallacies of contemporary American life, a happy result of her time spent living in Texas, even as her commitments to social justice and the cathartic potential of figurative painting remain free of geographical or national specificity. Janečková Walshe has exhibited extensively in galleries and art spaces worldwide, including solo exhibitions at Harkawik, New York and Los Angeles; Althuis Hofland, Amsterdam; Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium; Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan; and Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany; as well as group exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland. Her work is held in the collections of the Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida; Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, Florida; and X Museum, Beijing, China. She received her MFA in painting from the Academy of Fine Art in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her exhibition at The Contemporary Austin is the artist’s first solo museum presentation.