Education:
2017 BA Hons (1st) Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins
2015 Foundation Diploma in Theatre Design, Camberwell, Wimbledon and Chelsea College of Art/UAL
Associate Lecturer
2019-Present Associate Lecturer, BA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martin's, London, UK
2020 Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art: Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
2018-2019 Visiting practitioner, Performance: design and practice, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Awards:
2017 Tell Us About It: Digital Artefact, London, UK
2020 Jerwood Arts Bursaries, London, UK
2020 LADA, Katherine Araniello Bursary, London, UK
Artist in Associate
2018 Artist in Associate for POW, Spread The Word London, London, UK
Selected group exhibitions:
2016 Durational performance and installation, Making a Home, Gedes Gallery, London-UK
2017 Video piece,I Will Hold Your Gaze, Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College Art, London-UK
2017 Durational performance, Heroin, Square London Gallery, London-UK
2017 Video piece, iScream, Hotel Elephant, London-UK
2017 Video piece, Queer Art(ists) Now, The Mill Co. Project, London, UK
2018 Polaroid photography, Fuck Off: An Art Show, Limbo Limbo, London,UK
2018 Video piece, Paradise Underground,cSugar Cane, London-UK
2018 Polaroids photography, Femmetopia Festival,VFD, London-UK
2018 Polaroids photography,”Mystical Femmes”, Creep Show, Retro Bar, London-UK
2019 Polaroids photography,”Mystical Femmes”, VFD10:Punish the streets, New Art Projects, London, UK
2019 Prints, Lesley Magazine Exhibition 19 Aug-15 Sep 2019, Horse Hospital gallery, London, UK
2019 Prints, Spread touring exhibition (Grrrl Zine Fair) 12 Oct-2 Nov, Arcadecampfa, Cardiff,Wales
2019 Drawing and print, Gallery Selection, Salon at The Wing London, London- UK
Solo exhibition:
2018 Solo Exhibition, Accessibility Note no. 3 Katy Jalili, Galerie AVU,Praha-Czech Republic
Selected performances:
2016 Solo act for ‘Prime of Ms david Hoyle’, Chelsea Theatre, London, UK
2017 Durational performance ‘Dear Woody’, Heroin Exhibition, Square London Gallery, London-UK
2017 ‘Queer Propaganda’, Tenderloin no 8, Toynbehall, London, UK
2019 ‘Cool Dad’, Marlborough theatre, Trans History Month Festival, Brighton, UK
2019 Solo Act, Wotever world, South Bank, London, UK
2019 ‘Evil Eye’, Shadow sisters, ICA, London, UK
2020 ‘Mystical Femmes: A Lecture on Exploring Intimacy with a Focus on Humans’, CHASM festival,
Commissioned by Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, Leeds, UK
Assistant Director
2020 Assistant Director, Edythe Woolley’s Sensitive Plumbing, The Yard Theatre, NOW2020, London UK
Screenings:
2016 ‘Becoming Portraits’, The White Pube: Zayn Malik Zindabad, Lewisham Arthouse, London-UK
2017 ‘Becoming Portraits’, MicroActs, Hotel Elephant, London-UK
2017 ‘#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures’, Where Dreams Cross, Stockholm-Sweden
2017 ‘#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures’, Cutie.BPoc Festival, Copenhagen-Denmark
2017 ‘#Familiar #Touch’, MicroActs 2, Hotel Elephant, London-UK
2017 ‘#Familiar #Touch’, ThoughtWorks, London-UK
2018 ‘#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures’, Femmetopia Special: International Women's Day, VFD, London-UK
2019 ‘Women with Moustaches’, MicroActs: Chelsea College of Arts, London-UK
2019 ‘Women with Moustaches’, MicroActs: Cave Pimlico, London-UK
2019 ‘#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures’, Cinema of Sisterhood, Whitechapel Gallery, London-UK
2019 ‘#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures’, SQIFF-Official Selection, Glasgow-Scotland
2020 'Zoom on Me' Mystical Femmes, Live Art Club online festival, UK
2020 ‘#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures’, Sex and Rage online Festival, UK
2020 ‘#Familiar #Touch #Lost #Figures’, Queer MENA online film Festival, Habibi Collective with ShakoMako, Sweden
Print Publications:
2016 Beyound Gender: The Identity of Fashion, Shades of Noir ToR, London, UK
2016 Women and Non-Binary, Shades of Noir ToR, London, UK
2017 Queer Bodies, Shades of Noir ToR, London, UK
2018 The Orgasm Issue- Katy Jalili, London, UK
2018 PinkLight:Art work and text, Trans Sex Zine (Vol 1), Minneapolis,Minnesota
2019 Gal-dem Un/Rest Publication: Healing Music and Ancient Heritage, London, UK
2019 Louche Magazine: Genderfvcker: The DIY and Punk Drag Competition, London, UK
Online Publications:
Shades of Noir, I U SHE: Pronouns? What’s that all about?
Shades of Noir, Author, Katy Jalili
Gal-Dem, Author, Katayoun Jalili
Huffington Post, Non-Binary People Need To Take Charge Of Their Own Creative Spaces
Bustle, Artist Katy Jalili Uses Makeup To Highlight, Not Hide
FEMzine, High Pitched and Moist: An Interview with Tami T
Femmi-Errect, FemmeBoys: A celebration of femme identifying boys
Panels / artist Talks:
2016 Artist Talk 'Intersectionality on Stage' , CREN’s 2nd Annual Conference, University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield, UK
2017 Interview, LCC x ICA: Politics of Looking Film Festival, London, UK
2017 Panel Discussion,LCC, queer in the media,London College of Communication, London, UK
2018 Panel Discussion, Pride AM: Trail Blazers Event, London, UK
2018 Pride, Past Present Future, Artist panel, UAL x Bishopsgate Institute , London, UK
2018 Silenced Museum, Intervention Discussion on tackling sexual harassment, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2018 ‘Beautiful Fruit’: LGBTQI+ artists on challenging normatively, Space studios, London, UK
2019 ‘Queer Panel and Networking’, Arts Student's Union: Arts Unlocked, Peckham Levels, London, UK
2019 Artist talk, Intersectionality of Race & LGBTQ Lecture, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2020 Artist talk, LGBTQ+ History Month, Norwich University of Art, Norwich, UK
2020 Manchester Pride, Pink-washing panel, online conference, Manchester,UK
2020 City and Guilds, Fine Art course, Artist Talk, London, UK
Features/Interviews:
2016 Hausmag: "Discussing Queer Feminism", UK
2016 Libertine Magazine, Identitat Issue, Katy Jalili, Germany
2016 i-D Germany: Outside The Binary Project by JJ Thunderkhat, Germany
2017 Shades of Noir: Katy Jalili performing ‘Menstrulogue’ at Herstory, UK
2017 i-D UK: 5 Queer Artists You Need to Know, UK
2017 BAMM: BRAND ACTIVISM: Katy Jalili, artist & performer, Uk
2018 Dalston Superstore: Katy Jalili, UK
2018 Gal-Dem: NEW CLUB NIGHT IS RECLAIMING SPACES FOR FEMMES OF COLOUR, UK
2018 Broadly, "People Show Us the Outfits That Helped Them Embrace Their Inner Femme"
2018 Vice: Noisy, How to Run a Truly Inclusive Club Night
2019 i-D: 'All the diverse performers you won't see on rupaul's drag race uk', UK
2019 Sassify Zine, Queeroes, Issue 7
2021 Thiiird Magazine, Katayoun Jalilipour: Bringing Performance Art To Remote Audiences During The Pandemic
Events:
2016 Event lead, Women and Non-binary: Black History Month, Shades of Noir, Central Saint Martins, London-UK
2017 Event lead, Queer Bodies, Shades of Noir, London College of Fashion, London-UK
2018 Organiser, F**k Transmisogyny, Arts Student Union and ArtsFems, London College of Communication, London-UK
2018 Co-producer and Host, Gender Fvcker: Non-binary Drag competition, London, UK
Radio:
2016 BBC Radio Asian Network, UK
Student activism
2016/17 Elected women’s officer at Arts student union
2017/18 Elected welfare officer at Arts student union
2018/19 Elected welfare officer at Arts student union
2018/19 Elected non-binary representative at NUS:Trans Conference
