Katie Taft is an artist working in photography and sculpture who lives in Denver, Colorado. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon in 2001 and since then has been making art in an attempt to better understand the world and people around her. Her work deals with universal stories such as myth, folklore, philosophy and religion, and how these kinds of stories manifest themselves in our modern lives.

Her series “Mes Petits Amis”  (My Little Friends) explores the world of a narrative through simple abstract, amorphous, monochromatic creatures that live in a small quiet land somewhere between the head and the heart, the intellect and the emotional. They are introspective, androgynous and simple. The images of them are boiled down to color, form and light so that they can be felt more than thought about. Listened to more then read and left open to interpretation.

In the past few years Katie Taft has shown throughout Colorado, Portland, Oregon, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is represented in many private and public collections in the US and received Westword's Mastermind Award in 2006. Her work was recognized in the February 2007 issue of Art in America. She recently completed an artist residency at PlatteForum in Denver, CO and will be starting a job at Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA) reaching out to underprivileged youth to further involve them in the arts. Katie also teaches for Working with Artists and sits on their gallery steering committee. She will be helping to co-curate the photography section of the Colorado Aids Project Auction with Mark Sink in June 2008.