Born in 1989 in California, USA
Living and working in Dresden, Germany
2025-present
Teaching assistant at the University of Fine Arts Dresden, Germany
2025/2026
Teaching assistant at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, painting course with Christian Macketanz
Painting instructor, Kreative Werkstatt e.V., Dresden, Germany
2021-2025
Postgraduate degree in Fine Arts (Meisterschüler) at the University of Fine Arts Dresden, Germany with Profesor Christian Macketanz
2016 – 2021
MFA (Diplom) at the University of Fine Arts Dresden, Germany with Professor Christian Macketanz
2011 – 2015
Lived and worked in Santiago, Chile
2007 – 2011
Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, Summa Cum Laude, Tufts University, USA
Artist statement
I am a painter fascinated by the tension between color, light, emptiness, and form. My works emerge from visual impressions, memories, and moments of wonder. The painting process is a dialogue between control and release, between observation and feeling – and it always leads to moments that take me by surprise.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2026
Dream Dust, Oswaldz Café, Dresden
2025
katrina l. pennington, Goldstudio60 (Halle, Germany)
2024
Katrina L. Pennington: Part 2, Goldstudio60 (Halle, Germany)
2022
Katrina L. Pennington: Recent Paintings, Oswaldz Temporary Gallery (Dresden, Germany)
Katrina L. Pennington, Goldstudio60 (Halle, Germany)
Group exhibitions (selection)
2026
Ocean in a Drop, Ines Schulz Galerie (Dresden, Germany)
M26, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
Surface Matter, Akademie Galerie Nürnberg
2025
Neue Brücke, Landtag NRW (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Neues aus unseren Ateliers, Villa Eschebach (Dresden, Germany)
2024
Pearls Ain’t Free, Usedomer Kunstverein e.V. (Heringsdorf, Germany)
I Wander All Night, Kunstquartier Bethanien (Gallery Weekend Berlin, Germany)
47th Kunstpreis-Ausstellung, Sparkasse-Kundenzentrum (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2022
Certezza Dopo Il Sonno, Accademia di Bellia Arti di Roma (Rome, Italy)
Speed Dating, Le Théâtre des Expositions (Paris, France) & Motorenhalle (Dresden, Germany)
A Body That Used to Be Yours, Kunstquartier Bethanien (Gallery Weekend Berlin, Germany)
Cakes for Sale, Oswaldz Temporary Gallery (Dresden, Germany)
2019
Zuerst Mensch, Turm der Kreuzkirche (Dresden, Germany)
2018
Partida, Galeria Independiente, Tabacalera (Madrid, Spain)
Purchases
Private collections in the United States, Germany, Austria, and France