Katy Bishop is a contemporary abstract painter based in Los Angeles who creates “expressive images,” gestural abstracts that fuse elements of perception, randomness, and control. Her works range from wild abstracts to emotional subtle abstracts that connect with a sense of harmony. In addition, Katy is known for her use of alcohol ink in reverse painting on plexiglass.
In June, 2026, her successful solo exhibition MOMENTS, IN COLOR revealed a new direction of her artworks, featuring abstracts on canvas with sculptured texture and more of her reverse paintings on plexiglass
Gallery 612, in Santa Monica, recently presented Bishop's 2025 solo exhibition. Bishop was honored with a booth at the Beverly Hills Art Show for the third year. She had two solo exhibitions in 2024 and in 2023. Her award-winning artworks have been in group exhibitions in galleries in Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Burbank, Pasadena, Chicago, Rome, Venice, Tokyo, Spain, Istanbul and many websites online.
Katy won "Best of Show" at the 2025 Burbank Art Association Spring Show. In 2024, Katy’s ink on synthetic paper Wonder was awarded First Place – Abstract in the February 2024 BoldBrush Competition.
Her artworks have been juried into the 2024 American Women Artists' annual exhibition at the Loveland Museum, Colorado, the Allied Artists of America 111th Annual Online Exhibition which is online until September 1, 2025 and The Gold List 2024.
Her work Terra Firma VII was presented with the Golden Award at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in 2023. The Cabbage Tree was part of the USA Exhibition featuring Jackson Pollack at the Toyko Metropolitan Art Museum in 2024.
In 2023 her abstract, Propel, won First Place – Abstract at the Betsy Lueke Gallery in “Rock.Paper.Scissors.Art” juried by Elizabeth Tucker, President of Women Painters West.
Katy Bishop is a member of The Los Angeles Art Association, Pasadena Society of Artists, the California Art League Board of Directors , the International Association of Art – USA, American Women Artists and the National WCA and Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art Board of Directors. Her work is currently represented by MEGA Gallery, Rome, and can be found in private collections across the country and in Japan and Italy.
