Katherine Koch, a visual artist and writer, received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has shown her paintings extensively in the United States, Europe, and Mexico, most notably in solo and group exhibitions at Studio Sismo (Oaxaca, Mexico), Arlene Bujese Gallery (East Hampton, New York), Benton Gallery (Southampton, New York); at the Painting Center, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, the United Nations, the Drawing Center, all in New York City; at the Pelham Arts Center, William Paterson University, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts; at the Ipswich Museum (UK) and ISIA (Urbino, Italy).

Her work has been commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts, and she has won residencies at the Byrdcliffe Artists Colony in Woodstock, New York, and the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has worked collaboratively with writers, musicians, and theater and video artists, her paintings used for book cover art for, among others, Kenneth Koch, Mark Statman, and Bill Lavender.

Koch has taught studio art and art history at William Paterson University and at Eugene Lang College, as well as having been a teaching artist for many years in public schools in underserved neighborhoods in New York.

Parts of her soon-to-be-published memoir about growing up among poets and artists of the New York School in the Greenwich Village of the 1960’s have appeared in several literary journals in the United States, among them Hanging Loose, The Saranac Review, Court Green, and Nowhere.

Katherine Koch was born in Rome, Italy, lived most of her life in New York City, and, since 2016, has been living in Oaxaca de Juárez and San Pedro Ixtlahuaca in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.