Artist Statement
Katreen el Toukhy or Katherine Toukhy is an artist and facilitator who has resided in unceded Lenapehoking (Brooklyn) for fifteen years and grew up part of a small Coptic Egyptian diaspora in Rhode Island. She draws upon improvised movement, land-based imagery or materials, and her Egyptian heritage to create figurative abstractions and participatory experiences in multiple media. Through her creative practice, she discovers embodied wisdom at the intersections of art, healing, and colonial wounding to challenge narratives of displacement and erasure.
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Bio
Katherine Toukhy has exhibited with the Bronx Museum, the Park Ave Armory, Wave Hill, BRIC, Trestle Gallery, and the Arab American National Museum among others. Select public projects have included a mural for the Flatbush African Burial Ground, supported by the City Artist Corps Grant (2021) and “The Khayamiyya Monument,” a social sculpture commissioned by The Laundromat Project (2017). In 2021, her piece “We Are the Fabric,” was published in Vogue to highlight Park Ave Armory’s “100 Years 100 Women,” celebrating women’s suffrage. Toukhy has also worked with support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, BRIC Media Fellowship, The Laundromat Project, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Project for Empty Space, among others. In addition to her studio work, she has been a creative facilitator and advocate with a focus on underrepresented voices for over a decade in NYC.