About


Katie Grinell is a fine artist based in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Born in Indiana and raised in Illinois, Grinell’s practice explores memory through abstraction, focusing on the intersection of photography, painting, and textiles. Through darkroom experimentation and the use of materials such as flowers, crochet, sequins, and family textiles, she bridges personal and familial history with abstraction. Her work engages themes of memory, feminism, Jewish identity, and digital culture, using material processes to question how meaning is preserved, altered, or lost over time. Grinell pursues a range of art projects, including exhibition curation, website design, and commercial photography. She collaborated with the Jewish Museum Milwaukee to curate and document archival objects for the virtual exhibition. In addition to her workshop and teaching assistant experience, Grinell teaches photography and writing courses as an instructor and graduate teaching assistant at Florida State University. She earned her BFA in New Studio Practice (Fine Art), with minors in Art History and Arts Management, from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and her MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University.