CV
selected shows:- Form and Display, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2026
- SWAB Barcelona Art Fair with Twilight Contemporary, 2026
- Baltic Open Submission, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, 2026 (group)
- Verisimilitude, Centre Square 2, Middlesbrough, 2026 (group)
- Oxygen, Hadrian Newcastle, 2026 (group)
- under side, Royal George, London, 2026 (duo)
- In The Real, Middlesbrough Art Week, Middlesbrough, 2025
- A Gathering: MFA Degree Show, Hatton Gallery and Newcastle University, 2025
- Echoes in Between, XL Gallery, Newcastle, and Audain Gallery, British Columbia, 2025
- All Shall Be Afforded Dignity (curator), XL Gallery, Newcastle, 2024
- Pipelines: MFA Degree Show, Hatton Gallery and Newcastle University, 2024
- Some Assembly Required, Slugtown, Newcastle, 2024
- Shieldfield Home, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2022
- After Exodysis II, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2022
- New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, 2021
- New Contemporaries, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester 2021
- Loose Time, Vane, Newcastle, 2021
- Post-capitalist desire, ICA, London, 2021
- Coming Soon, Castlefield Gallery New Art Space, Warrington, 2020
- Scheming, Function Suite, London 2020
- Kiosken, Ö Festen, Ringön, 2019
education, residencies, awards + programmes:
- DYCP recipient for Access-led Sculpture Fabrication, 2026
- Axis Award, 2026
- Long listed, The Artist Prize, 2026
- MFA, Newcastle University, 2023-2025
- Member of TOTALLER, 2024-ongoing
- The Collective Studio, The NewBridge Project, 2021-2022
- 11:11 Residency, London/remote, 2020
- School of the Damned, 2020-2022
- Junior Fellowship, Dept. of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, 2018-2019
- BA Fine Art and History of Art, Goldsmiths University of London, 2015-2018
- Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Liverpool Community College, 2013-2014
press, research and writing:
- Reimagining the City Walking Tour to Stimulate a Critical Engagement with Place in Walking and Leisure by Natalie Bamford and Kitty McKay, 2026
- Temporary & permanent culture finds a place in Middlesbrough, (review) Recessed Space, 2025
- Middlesbrough Art Week (review) FAD Magazine, 2025
- Middlesbrough Art Week proves that shopping malls are the art galleries of the future (review) Creative Bloom, 2025
- A Gathering: Newcastle University Post-Graduate Degree Show (review) by Uma Breakdown in Corridor8, 2025
- Listening and Learning, a social impact report by Julia Heslop, Paul Richter, Emma Coffield, Rebeca Huggan, Kitty McKay, Frances Stacey, Alison Stenning, 2024
- Tangents are Encouraged: Conversations around artists’ workspace by Emma Coffield, Daniel Newberry, Kitty McKay, Jenny Mc Namara and Loes Veldpaus
- Some Assembly Required (review) by Lesley Guy for Corridor8, 2024
- Artists make Places: Kitty McKay (article) for Art Network North East, 2024
- Giving Care in Gateshead: Reimagining the landscape of care by Dan Taylor, Kitty McKay and caregivers in Gateshead, 2023
- Making the Clayton Street Corridor by Emma Coffield, Hannah Marsden, Daniel Newberry, Tom Hopkins, Jenny McNamara, Kitty McKay, Lee Etherington, Vikki Leaney and Ed Banks, 2023
- Art Licks Issue #26: Radical Gestures (contributor) 2021
- Why we started a club night for our teacher, Mark Fisher by Natasha Eves, Archie Smith and Kitty McKay, Huck Magazine, 2021