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Kat Anderson

b. Bristol, UK. Based in London.

Kat Anderson is an artist filmmaker based in London, working under an artistic framework titled Episodes of Horror, using horror to discuss historic and contemporary representations of mental illness and trauma as experienced by or projected upon Black bodies.

Recent projects

Exhibitions include Mark of Cane, Nunnery Gallery, London, 2024 and Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, 2022. Anderson won Bow Arts’ ‘East London Art Prize’, 2023 and received Jerwood’s New Work Fund, 2019. Her work has featured on Transmissions TV, Third Horizon Film Festival, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, and been acquired by Wellcome Collection, London.

Kat Anderson, John, 2019
Kat Anderson, John, 2019
Kat Anderson. Photo: Hydar Dewachi
Kat Anderson. Photo: Hydar Dewachi

2025–2026

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