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Artist Bio
Katie Graham is a member of the central valley’s queer art community, originating from Lodi, California. Katie is a multimedia artist and part-time student serving Delta College’s printmaking studio as a teacher’s assistant for almost a year now. Specializing in various forms of printmaking such as collagraph and linocut, as well as illustrating with other traditional mediums such as drawing and painting.
Artist Statement
As a multimedia artist, I have experimented with all kinds of mediums over the years. Alcohol makers, colored pencils, painting, even ceramics and such. I considered myself a medium nomad for the longest time. I never really stuck to one thing for too long until I tried a printmaking class on a whim in 2023 and I have been creating meaningful artworks with printmaking since. Learning from the class taught here at delta, I started off with a gel plate monotype and then began experimenting with linocut and collagraph. Over time as I learned the fundamentals, I discovered a love for the medium Aswell as my distinct art style. My artwork has been influenced by everything in my life. All that I have seen, everything that I've felt, and the people I've crossed paths with, My life's story. Printmaking has been my instrument of choice in my mad scientist’s laboratory that I call an art studio. Researching new techniques and repeatedly tweaking on my ideas, meditating on my feelings, brainstorming on how to make truly impactful imagery. Combining more ideas than I could think of expressing simply my words into one single sheet of paper, being finally able to give them new life and letting them be put on display to be seen, heard, and truly analyzed by the world.
Work Statement
Who am I? This is the question that this print asks the viewer. This print is about the code-switching and social masking that queer and neurodivergent people do in everyday life for their safety, for their peace and even success in their lives around daily acquaintances, some of your family members and even those who you should feel safe to be your true self around. As well as the existential aloneness, the feelings of grief, longing and distress that are caused by the loss of identity and wholeness that comes with having to change everything about yourself for different audiences. Having no choice but to be a different version of “you” every single day of your life. Becoming a revolving door of untold truths and astray fragments of identities. When you become so many people, when you put so many masks on, you start to forget what your real face looks like. You start to feel like you are losing your soul and your name, what it means to be “you”. Which leads into the title “Can Someone Please tell me who I am?” A plead from a faceless, shadowy figure. An empty hole in her chest with a question mark in the place where her soul should be, franticly switching from face to face, trying each and every single one of them one by one. Hoping that one of them is her true face, but all of them are nothing more than just masks. Is there anyone left to remember her real face? Eternally a vessel made of fractured, splintered realties and unheard words. Who am I?
Can someone please tell me who I am?
Linocut on paper
18" x 12" print / paper 22” x 16” / 27.5” x 20.5” frame
2026
NFS
LGBTQ+ Advocacy through the Arts
Printmaking Demonstration
Trans Day of Visibility and Project Event
April 2, 2026
LGBTQ+ Advocacy through the Arts
Poster Slam
April – June, 2026