Kate Newby was born in 1979 in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand, and she is currently based in the United States (Texas). She is known for her glass and ceramic sculptures and installations, as well as her site-responsive works and architectural interventions. Attentive to natural phenomena, such as light, wind and other weather conditions, Newby’s works often blur distinctions between public and private, and interior and exterior space.
The artist has held solo exhibitions at Klosterruine, Berlin; Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne; Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen; Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Artpace, San Antonio; and GAK, Bremen. Group exhibitions include presentations at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Kunsthaus Hamburg; Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo; and Blaffer Art Museum, Houston. She received the Walters Prize (2012) and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2019).