Artist Talk: Katie Shapiro & Virginia Arce
Saturday, October 24, 11:00 am
Hannah Sloan Curatorial & Advisory
5613 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019
Join us on Saturday, October 24 at 11 AM for a conversation between artist Katie Shapiro and curator and writer Virginia Arce at HSC&A. Coffee and pastries will be provided.
Together, they’ll discuss the influences shaping recent work in Shapiro’s solo exhibition, The Other Side of the Moon, including Jungian psychology, autobiography, geology, memory, and matter. The conversation will offer a closer look at how Shapiro moves between photography and sculpture to explore perception, presence, and what lies beyond view.
Seats are limited. Please RSVP.
/ On View
Katie Shapiro
The Other Side of the Moon
September 26 – November 14, 2026
Hannah Sloan Curatorial & Advisory is pleased to present The Other Side of the Moon, a solo exhibition of photo-based works by Katie Shapiro, on view from September 26 – November 14, 2026. In her most autobiographical body of work to date, Shapiro uses photography as sculpture to explore psychological spaces and life experiences that resist straightforward representation. Photographs of landscapes, celestial bodies, and intimate moments with her adolescent sons are printed on glass, arranged in mirrored frames, and placed into geologic specimens like obsidian and jade, giving a robust, three-dimensional presentation to her ideas about interior life.
/ About the Artists
Katie Shapiro holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a BFA in Photography from CalArts. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Photography Is Magic, curated by Charlotte Cotton at Aperture Gallery, New York, and in solo exhibitions at Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles; other venues include Klompching Gallery, Christopher Grimes Gallery, and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California. Her work has been written about in Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine, and is held in public and private collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Huntington, the California Museum of Photography, Riverside, and the Amon Carter Museum library and worked on public commissions for LAX and SoFi Stadium. Shapiro was named a Cultural Trailblazer by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs in 2025, received the Center for Photographic Art's Mid-Career Artist Grant in 2024, and is a 2026 Hopper Prize finalist. She has held residencies at the Banff Centre, Bullseye Glass, and, in 2026, MASS MoCA. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Virginia Arce is a curator, writer, and arts advocate. Her curatorial practice centers emerging contemporary artists and has spanned artist-run, municipal, nonprofit, and academic spaces. She is a co-founder and co-editor of The Invisible Archive, and in 2024, was named Emerging Arts Leader by ArtsOC. She earned her MFA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of California, Irvine.
Featured Artwork /
01. Portrait of Katie Shapiro by David Dowling
02. Portrait of Virginia Arce
03. Katie Shapiro, Shoreline, 2026, inkjet on glass, coral, 9 x 6 x 4 inches
04. Installation view of The Other Side of the Moon by Katie Shapiro
05. Installation view of The Other Side of the Moon by Katie Shapiro
Current Exhibition /
Eightfold
September 26 - November 14, 2026
HSC&A / 5613 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90019
Presented alongside her exhibition in the front gallery is Eightfold, a selection of small works curated by Katie Shapiro from her critique group of eight women artists whose practices meet at the intersection of photography, materiality, and three-dimensional form.
