Katsu Sawada USA, b. 1982

Katsu Sawada  is a new media artist, a pioneer of drone painting and drone graffiti. His practice spans the realms of conceptual art, digital media, public art and interventions. KATSU began experimenting with art and technology as a Research Fellow with the Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T. Lab), a collective of creative technologists and hacker artists (2007-2015). His work has been shown in two solo exhibitions at The Hole, New York (2014 & 2018), and was recently included in Beyond The Streets, curated by Roger Gastman in Los Angeles, CA (2018). He created Dronescape Summer 2015 for Coney Art Walls, curated by Joseph J. Sitt and Jeffrey Deitch, and was included in Born in the Streets – Graffiti at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France (2009-10). KATSU collaborated with photographer Ari Marcopolous on Anonymous (2018) and 6-23 ’13 – N6 Street – Brooklyn (2014), limited editions for Dashwood Books, NY. He earned his BFA in Integrated Design from Parsons School of Design, NY (2005). The artist works between Brooklyn, NY and San Francisco, CA.