Solo Exhibitions
2022 Hosiery Abstracts, Modern Painters, New Decorators, Loughborough
2022 The Seeing Hands, Collective, Edinburgh
2021 small wares, curated by Clare Molloy, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
2019 A Working Building, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
2018 This Interesting and Wonderful Factory, Clore Sky Studio, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
2016 Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Space, London
2016 Making the Bed, Laying the Table, fellowship exhibition, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow
2016 Together in a Room, Collective, Edinburgh

Public Art Commissions
2024 a cloud + a fence, The Line and London Borough of Newham, London
2024 S E A T F O R B L A C K R O C K, Brighton & Hove City Council

Group Exhibitions
2026 Relative Ties, The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2022 British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery Touring
2022 Are you Messin'?, The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2022 Another Crossing, Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage, The Box, Plymouth and Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
2020 Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Scottish Art, RSA, Edinburgh
2019 PARADE, a Celebration of Contemporary ARt Textiles, Broadway, Letchworth Garden City
2019 Unbounded, The Eden Project, Cornwall
2019 Resist: be modern (again), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2018 Katie Schwab and Quinie, Cairn, Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland
2017 Atrium Commissions, MIMA, Middlesbrough
2017 31 Women, Breese Little, London
2016 Drop City, Hotel Ufer, Dusseldorf and Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
2015 My love is like a red red rose. Art in Scotland from 18th to 21st Century, Musee du Chateau des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbeliard
2015 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Backlit, Nottingham and ICA, London
2015 Fresh, British Ceramics Biennial, The Original Spode Factory Site, Stoke-on-Trent

Education
2013-15 MFA, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (exchange at Hunter College, NYC, 2014)
2005-08 BA Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies, Goldsmiths College, London 


Bibliography
2026 Relative Ties, Paul Holberton Publishing
2025 The Line, Public Art in East London, Monacelli Press
2023 Katie Schwab: Sample Book, edited by Clare Molloy, designed by Åbäke, copublished by Vleeshal and Dent-De-Leone 
2020 British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery Touring
2019 Resist: be modern (again), ed. Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton


Residencies
2026 SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency  
2022 The Handicrafts Residency, Loughborough University, Loughborough
2021 Visual Arts Residency, Cove Park, Scotland
2019 Design Residency, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
2018 West Dean College, Sussex
2017 The Cornwall Workshop, Kestle Barton, Cornwall
2017 Wilhelmina Barns- Graham Residency Award, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall
2016 Nigel Greenwood Art Prize Residency, Longformacus, Scottish Borders
2015 Graduate Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland  

Awards/ Funding

2024 Stephen Palmer Travel Bursary
2020 Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England 
2020 Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award Scheme
2019 Shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery
2018 Deborah House Studio Bursary, New Contemporaries/ SPACE, London, 2018-19       
2017 Wilhelmina Barns- Graham Residency Award, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives
2016 Nigel Greenwood Art Prize
2016 The Elephant Trust
2016 Satellites, Collective, Edinburgh
2016 Glasgow Sculpture Studios MFA Graduate Fellowship
2015 RSA John Kinross Scholarship


Workshops
2009-present Workshops with Cove Park; Oban High School with National Galleries Scotland; Loughborough University; Horniman Museum; University of Hertfordshire; Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop; University of Sunderland; Cample Line; Leeds Art Gallery; Arnolfini; The Fruitmarket Gallery and Pier Arts Centre; The Common Guild; Camden Art Centre; John Hansard Gallery; Serpentine Galleries; Tate Modern; Tate Britain.


Projects
2019 Still Here, The White House, Dagenham with Create, London
2018 Knots, Family Day, BALTIC, Gateshead
2017 A Portable Mural, Architecture Family Pack, Serpentine Galleries, London
2017 We Are Family Residency, Arnolfini, Bristol
2016 Dear friends, Serpentine Galleries, London
2014 Work Hands, British Folk Art Open Studio, Tate Britain Learning Gallery, London


Teaching
2024- present BA Fine Art Tutor at Edinburgh College of Art
2017- 24 Visiting Fine Art Lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art; University of Gloucestershire; Goldsmiths; Plymouth College of Art; Newcastle University, Northumbria University; West Dean College.