Katie Addada Shlon

Katie Addada Shlon is a conceptual artist based in Baltimore, MD (Piscataway land). As an artist in the Palestinian diaspora, her work is critical of the idea of "land use"; the social, cultural, and psychological effects of land dispossession; and seeks to re-build intimacy with land.

Shlon earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she focused on sculptural installation, psychogeography, and architectural theory. She has held a residency fellowship from the KONE Foundation Finland; was granted an experimental public art commission from the City of Boulder, Colorado; and a Rubys Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. She has shown her work on top of mountains, in backyards, and collaboratively at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, MD; Current Space in Baltimore, MD; Titanik in Turku, Finland; and Clavo Feria de Arte in Mexico City, Mexico.

Recent solo exhibitions include "lovers, lovers, lovers of the land" at BASEMENT Art Space in Chapel Hill, NC, an invite-only exhibition and majlis for community members in the Levantine diaspora; and "sounds from the base of a mountain", an installation of musical instruments responding to mountain climbing as an allegory for overcoming struggle, at Current Space in Baltimore, Maryland in 2020.