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Katie Bret-Day (b. 1993) is a London-based visual artist working between art and science who uses the viscous materiality of photography to explore the contingent and discursive nature of being. With interests in the posthuman and connected ecology, her research examines the amalgamation of digital and physical bodies through alternative methods of image capture, intervention, and printing. In (2018), she was named one of The Guardian’s five rising talents and received Creative Review’s Zeitgeist Award.

Her work has been included in the Tate-commissioned Photography Ideas Book (2019) and acquired by the British Library, where it has been on display in the Treasures Collection since (2020). She holds a First Class BA from London College of Communication (UAL) and graduated from the Royal College of Art (2020).

Recent examples of her research-led practice include What On Earth with the London Alternative Photography Collective (2021), her Solo show at the Experimental Photography Festival, Barcelona (2023), The Dubai Expo (2020), and the Biodiversity Fingerprint public art commission with Proposition Studios (2024). She lectures at Ravensbourne University London.


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2025

Sept-Nov // // Hackney Picture House, London Otherlands: East London Photo Month 


2024

June // The Biodiversity Fingerprint // Proposition Studios; Camden London

June // Human Nature // Proposition Studios, Camden; London
January // Concious and Confusion // Purdue University, Indiana; USA


2023

July // Lividity (Solo) // Experimental Photo Festival, Barcelona


2022

April // Alternative Narratives; womens history month // Alternative Processes, Online

March // Shaping Futures; design-led innovation (RCA) // Expo 2020, Dubai


2021


November // We Mix Techniques // Experimental Photo Festival, Online

6th July // A new exhibition asks how we can better picture the climate crisis // Britich Journal of Photography, Online

2nd - 24th July  // What on Earth // The Koppel Project, London

21st May - 11th June // Rhythm Adjust // The Breath project + Fronline 19 Charity Auction



2020

18th -22nd August  // with fists, it kicks, it bites // Edel Assanti, London

19th July // On Borders and Being: In conversation with Roei Greenburg and Alexander Mournat

16th - 20th July // Final, not Over // Unit 1 Gallery

16th - 31st July // RCA 2020 // Graduate Showcase

May // Version Magazine // Vol 1 // Xenophillia

Art of the Book, Treasures Gallery // BRITISH LIBRARY




2019

Dec 6th-Jan 23rd // Salon 19 // PHOTOFUSION

Nov 1st-Dec 12th // The Colur of Pain // IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

Jul 1st - Nov 30th //  Time to Think // FESTIVAL PIL’OURS, FRANCE

May 17-19th // Hot Sheet // The Department Store, London




2018


December // Issue 38 // Zeitgeist Award //  Creative Review

14th October // The Next Generation : Five Leading Photographers Pick the Hottest New Talent // The New Review // The Guardian Observer 

26th September - 16th Novemer // Interventions & Interruptions  // Photofusion, London




2017-18 // Artist in Residence: Zeitgeber // Institut Le Rosey // Switzerland

2017 January // PECHAKUCHA: Artist Talk // Photofusion, London

2016 December // Salon 16  // Photofusion , London

2014 September // Issue 60 // The next generation: rising talent // Aesthetica Magazine

2014 October // Brighton Photo Fringe : Collective hub  // Vantage point, Brighton 

2014 June // JOHN  // LCC, London

2014 January // London Short Film Festival  // ICA, London

2013 September // S.F.U. // St. Leonards Church Shoreditch, London