bio

Kate Csillagi (b. 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Austin, TX. She attended the foundation program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later studied at Evergreen State College. Her early publications of erotic zines, punk flyers, and album covers evolved into a more expansive body of work that defied traditional boundaries. Her creations now span fabric tapestries, paintings, murals, ferrocement sculpture, and immersive, site-specific installations. Csillagi is also a founding member of ICOSA, the artist-run collective in East Austin, and continues to show work throughout art spaces in the US.

Csillagi’s work breaches the boundaries of the familiar, summoning creatures that move through realms untethered to time or place. Her style ranges from comic line drawings to textured fabric sewn collage to large cement sculpture work. Csillagi’s imagery holds visions of the surreal, dissolving the veil between worlds by way of anthropomorphic guardian forms and undulating landscapes. These spectral tableaux reveal personal and relational mythologies, drawing viewers into a place where the absurd and everyday symbolism coexist in delightful ways.