Paintings
Exhibitions
Digital
About
My recent work explores how the gamification of digital space influences lived experience, turning the physical world into an extension of the digital. Rendering familiar scenes through the visual language of digital 3D environments, I create images of a constructed reality that has been overtaken by game logic. With bright colors, recognizable game compositions, visual clues, and barely hidden easter eggs, the paintings take advantage of viewers’ gamified thinking to transform into sites of interface.
CV
Education
MFA Painting and Printmaking, 2027
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
BFA Studio Art, 2018
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2024 “SPACE INVADER” Can Buy Records (Nagoya, Japan)
2024 “Words to Live By” Margin Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 “EDEN 404” Margin Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2021 “Daydream” SAHN (Tokyo, Japan)
“KT” Eric Rose (Tokyo, Japan)
Group
2026 “EMERGE X” Bond Millen Gallery (Richmond, Virginia)
2026 “Signal Boost: New Voices From VCU Arts MFA Program” Main Projects (Richmond, Virginia)
2026 “Late Breaking” Anderson Gallery (Richmond, Virginia)
2026 “A Flower Show” A Wall Gallery (Richmond, Virginia)
2026 “Art Fair Nagoya” Atsuhiko Suematsu Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)
2025 “BIGEI” Atsuhiko Suematsu Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2023 “Room 404” Bakurocho Art Cube (Tokyo, Japan)
“Artist New Gate” Abeno Harukas (Tokyo, Japan)
2022 “100 Nin 10” Tokyo Midtown (Tokyo, Japan)
“Art Stage Osaka” Margin Gallery booth (Osaka, Japan)
“Crossing the Border” Margin Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
2021 “100 Nin 10” Shinwa Auction (Tokyo, Japan)
“ZONE” Kochuten Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)
Awards
2026 VMFA Graduate Fellowship
2023 Pocorizm Award, Artist New Gate
Contact: katylayman5@gmail.com
Instagram: @lamekaty