Katarina Janečková Walshe works across media, employing paper, canvas, bedsheets and a wide array of markmaking tools to skewer received notions of authentic culture, gender norms, sexual expression, national pride, social progress, and age-appropriate behaviors. Her process is free-ranging, improvisational and fearless, and she uses her own sexuality, motherhood, and identity as a painter as characters in the scenes she envisions. Her critical attention and transgressive methodologies have most recently been trained on the fallacies of contemporary American life, a happy outgrowth of time spent in Texas, even as her relentless commitment to social justice and the transformative and cathartic potential for figurative painting remains free of geographical site or national character.
Most recently, her pictures have been populated by women whose gendered, bountiful “mothering” has been pushed to absurd ends, whose bodies have become amalgamations of hypersexualized “cut-outs,” and whose foils are most frequently an army of randy, proud, endearing and occasionally foolhardy bears.
(Photo by Malone, Aaaron Rodriguez)
Born in 1988 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Lives and works in Corpus Christi and New York, USA.
Education
2007-2013 MA in Painting from the Academy of Fine Art, Bratislava, Slovakia
2004-2007 High School of Applied Art of J.Vydra (department of advertising painting), Bratislava, Slovakia
Solo Exhibitions
2024
HOST, The Contemporary Austin, Texas, USA
Being A Mother At The End Of The World, White & Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2023
Motherland, Harkawik Gallery, NY, USA
2022
Binds and Bonds, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Maternity Vacation, Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerpen, Belgium
GIVER, Odyssey Project, Cologne, Germany
ALIMENTARLOS A TODOS, CDMX, Mexico
2021
Growing Season, Asia Art Centre Taipei, Taiwan
Secrets of a happy household, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany
The importance of Maintaining Flexibility, White & Weiss gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Rule of Touch and Move, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Woods Unknown, K-Space, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
Wunderwall, Antwerp, Belgium
Eyes (half-way) Open, duo exhibition with Malone.TX, AtelierXII, Bratislava, Slovakia (duo exhibition)
2020
Bad Habits, Good Intentions, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Berliner Luft, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany
Lovers After Life, Duo exhibition with Jay Miriam, Richter Fine Art, Rome, Italy
2019
Symbiosis, K-Space, Corpus Christi, Texas
2018
Chi Cerca Trova, Richter Fine Art, Rome
2017
Texas Survival Guide, Nová Galerie, Prague
2016
How To Make A Bear Fall In Love, Studio D’Arte Raffaelli, Bologna, Trento
2015
Janeckova On Steroids!, Atelier XIII, Bratislava, Slovakia
Salmon Lovers, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark
Bears, Catastrophes and other everyday events, NOVA Galerie, Prague
What I Really Do?, CIN-CIN Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014
So Many Fish So Little Time, SOGA, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013
Lost and Found, Between Heaven and Ground, Grossling Spa, Bratislava
No Pain No Gain, Flatgallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Slovak Goodies, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012
Lone Wolf, Cub and World Champion, SOGA, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011
Photoport-Center of Visual Arts / exhibition of Bachelor Diploma works
2010
Brush & Bitch, Tranzit Hangar, Bratislava, Slovakia
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2023
The Island Called Everything, duo-presentation at The Armory Show, Harkawik Gallery, NY, USA
Daydreaming pressed against a fence, Harkawik Gallery, LA, USA
Boobs in the Arts – Fe:male Bodies In Pictorial History, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany
The Bad Mother, Haus Am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2022
Apple in the dark, Harkawik, New York, USA
Watch Me Burn, Ruttkowski 68, Paris, France
Works On Paper On Fridges, Harkawik, NY, USA
Recipes for romance, Hudson House, NY, USA
2021
Transgression throughout the Volatile world, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Animal Nitrate, Bill Arning Exhibitions, Houston, Texas, USA
NADA Artfair, Althuis Hofland, Miami, Florida, USA
2020
2020 Year of the Rat, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany
Fête Galante, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2019
Paint, Also Known As Blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Animal Idealism, Harpy Gallery, New York
Ladies Of The Asel, New York and Slovakia
Art Verona, Galleria Richter, Verona, Italy
2018
Paper Trail, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
Pairs, Rare Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
SNP, Galerie Arcimboldo, Prague
Nudes, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, New York, NY
Redness, Copper House Gallery, Dublin
Untitled Art Fair (Allouche Gallery), San Francisco
Príbehy (o) Smrti, Nitrianska Galéria, Nitra, Slovakia
2017
COM surrogate, Richter Gallery, Rome, Italy
Stand Still, ALLOUCHE GALLERY, NY
Drinkin’ Smokin’ Westcoastin, Think Tank Gallery, LA
Art Herning / North Kunstmesse / 40, Herning, Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
2016
Mist of Madness, Heliumcowboy, Hamburg, Germany
Grand Opening of the Meatpacking District, Allouche Gallery, NY, USA
Arte Fierra Bologna, Studio D’Arte Raffaelli, Bologna, Trento
Art Herning, Galerie Wolfsen, Herning, Denmark
Act, Nova Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
2014
Retrospectivepreview, FRESHMEN’S, Bratislava, Slovakia
The Infidels, La Trampa Gallery, Mexico city
Inaugural Show, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Cesko-Slovenske Hvezdy, Galerie Miroslava Kubika, Litomysl, Czech Republic
Master Diploma Works VSVU, Dom Umenia, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012
VUB Painting of the Year, Dvorana Ministerstva, Kultury SR, Bratislava
On the Threshold, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011
Volta Basel, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Kick Off, galerie DVORAKSEC, Prague, Czech Republic
Consistent, Oravska Galeria, Dolny Kubin, Slovakia
217 Enter the Bitch Zone, ENTER Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2010
Young Ass, Gallery Kressling, Bratislava, Slovakia