ESSAYS
The Museum of the World, by Emanuele Coccia, 2024
Being in, on, and of place, by Lisa Le Feuvre, 2023
Future Library, by Cal Flyn, 2023
The Moment in an Hourglass, Jay Griffiths, 2022
People Turn into Gold, David Farrier, 2022
Julian Charrière And Katie Paterson: Meteors And Metabolisms, by Nicolas Bourriaud, for Gallerie Tschudi, 2021
A necklace made of fossils. A diamond made of captured carbon, by Andri Snær Magnason, for Gallerie Tschudi, 2021
On the aromas of the first and last forests, David Haskell, 2021
Knowledge, affect and subjectivity in Katie Paterson’s documents of darkness, Jemma Craig, 2021
The Art of Losing: Performing Ecological Loss in Contemporary Art, Hana Nikčević, 2021
The register of the artist, Elizabeth A. Hodson, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2021
Instantiation, Actualization, and Absence: The Continuation and Safeguarding of Katie Paterson’s Future Library (2014–2114)
Ukutshisa: Setting Fire to the Future, Panashe Chigumadzi
A place that exists only in moonlight: Katie Paterson and J.M.W. Turner, by Nicholas Alfrey, Turner Society News 123, Autumn 2019
A place that exists only in moonlight: Katie Paterson and J.M.W Turner, by James Attlee, 2019
The New Scientist, A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight review: Sublime raid on infinity, Boyd Tonkin, 2019
The Future is not a Foreign Country, by Arifa Akbar, 2018
2114, Future Library: A Conversation with Katie Paterson, Laura Leuzzi, 2018
The Manuscripts Stored in Oslo, by Lars Bang Larsen, 2017
Aesthetics as ecology, or the question of the form of eco art, Clive Cazeaux, 2016
New Scientist, Syzygy exhibition squeezes cosmic wonders into everyday objects, Paul Graham Raven, 2016
On Unpublishing: Fugitive Materiality and the Future of the Anthropocene Book, by Paul Benzon, in Publishing as Artistic Practice, Sternberg Press, 2017
salt 13: KATIE PATERSON, Whitney Tassie, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 2017
The Ravens of Tomorrow, by Sjón, 2017
The Time of an Artwork, Lisa Le Feuvre, 2016
Astronomy Domine: The Anthropological-Cosmological Squeeze in Katie Paterson’s work, Lars Bang Larsen, 2016
The Gedankenexperiments of Katie Paterson, Mary Jane Jacob, 2016
The Ayes Have It, David Mitchell, 2016
Of Great Magnitudes and Multiplicities, Sally O’Reilly, 2016
Future Library, Margaret Atwood, 2015
A New Spring, by Arve Rød, 2015
Katie Paterson, Sand and Stars, Ben Tufnell, 2014
Signs and Wonders, Brian Dillon, 2013
Katie Paterson: Another Time, Fiona Venables, 2013
On Starlight and Celestial Darkness: Human Vision and Cosmic Revision, as Seen in the Recent Works of Zoe Leonard and Katie Paterson, Neha Choksi, 2012
To the Ends of the Earth: Art and Environment by Nicholas Alfrey, Stephen Daniels, Joy Sleeman 2012
Transmission, Reflection and Loss: Katie Paterson’s Earth-Moon-Earth by Nicolas Alfrey Lakeside, Nottingham, 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Turner’s Sublime Legacy – In dialogue with Contemporary Artists, Grimaldi Foundation with Tate, 2024
Hidden Libraries, Lonely Planet, 2024
Dialogues with Turner: Evoking the Sublime, Museum of Art Pudong, 2024
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain, Pallant House, 2024
Manif D’Art, La Biennale de Québec, 2024
Into the Woods — Perspectives on the forest ecosystem, Spector Books, 2024
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time, Richard Fisher, 2023
Time Gravity, Chengdu Biennale, 2023
Burning Questions, Margaret Atwood, Penguin, 2022
A Show About Nothing, By Art Matters, 2022
Art Escapes Hidden Art Experiences Outside the Museum, 2022
Why Modern Manuscripts Matter, Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford University Press, 2022
Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary Art, Sara Callahan, Manchester University Press, 2022
Futura Proxima. Curated for Gucci, 2022
Solid, Fluid, Biotic – Changing Alpine Landscapes, Thomas Kissling ed, Lars Müller Publishers, 2021
Light and Language, Lismore Castle Arts, 2021
Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics, Susan Ballard, Routledge, 2021
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, David Farrier, 2021
Tate: Contemporary Art Decoded, Jessica Cerasi, Octopus, 2021
First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time, Emma Chapman, 2021
The Colour Bible: The Definitive Guide to Colour in Art and Design, Laura Perryman, 2021
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World, Kimberly Nicholas PhD, 2021
The Future Library, Peng Shepherd, 2021
The Good Ancestor, How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World, Roman Krznaric, 2020
The Unseen Masterpiece, Ingleby Gallery, 2020
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, Marcia Bjornerud, 2020
Mind the Gap: La vita tra bioarte, arte ecologica e post internet, Elena Giulia Rossi, 2020
Beethoven Moves, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Hatje Cantz, 2020
Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future, Margaret Heffernan, 2020
Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction, David Farrier, 2019
Conversations with Turner, The Watercolors, Nicholas R. Bell, 2019
The Moon: A History for the Future, Oliver Morton, 2019
Time’s Urgency, eds. Carlos Montemayor, Robert R. Daniel, 2019
The Moon, A Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour, Royal Observatory Greenwich, 2019
Great Women Artists, Phaidon, 2019
PET, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2019
In Land: Writings Around Land Art and its Legacies, Ben Tufnell, 2019
Library of Light: Encounters with Artists and Designers, Jo Joelson, 2019
Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic, Jana VanderGoot, 2019
24/7: A Wake-Up Call for Our Non-Stop, ed Sarah Cook, Somerset House, 2019
The Moon: From Inner Worlds To Outer Space, Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, 2018
Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World, Spencer Museum of Art, catalogue, 2018
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment, eds Anna-Karin Jonasson, Peter Degerman, Reinhard Hennig, 2018
After Extinction, Richard Grusin, 2018
Time and Literature, Thomas M. Allen, Cambridge University Press, 2018
Dewey for Artists, Mary Jane Jacob, 2018
ACTIONS The Image of the World can be Different, Kettle’s Yard, 2018
Scaling the Sublime: Art at the Limits of Landscape, 2018
A place that exists only in moonlight, Kerber Verlag, 2017
Etre Pierre, Musee Zadkine, 2017
Katie Paterson: Monograph, Locus+ and Kerber Verlag, 2017
Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World, Phaidon, 2017
Immanence and Immersion: On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art, Will Schrimshaw, Bloomsbury, 2017
Yokohama Triennale: Islands, Constellations & Galapagos, catalogue, 2017
A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham, Henry Moore Institute, 2016
The Distant Unknown, OCAT Shanghai, 2016
Publishing as Artistic Practice Sternberg Press, 2016
Threads: A Fantasmagoria About Distance, Nicolas Bourriaud, 2016
Memories of the Moon Age, Spector Book, 2016
Aesthetics as ecology, Clive Cazeaux, in Extending Ecocriticism, Manchester University Press, 2016
Rare Earth, Boris Ondreička, Nadim Samman (Eds.), Sternberg Press, 2016
Man made: contemporary art about the relationship between mankind and earth, Johan Braeckman, 2016
Ecology Of Our World: Views On Climate And The Environment, Ird Editions, 2016
Monochrome: Darkness and Light in Contemporary Art, Craig Staff, 2015
How to Construct a Time Machine, ed Marquard Smith, MK Gallery, 2015
Fantasies of the Library, Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, K-Verlag, 2015
About Trees, Katie Holten, Broken Dimanche Press, 2015
Public Art (Now): Out of Time, Out of Place, MIT Press, 2015
Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change, Jessica Barnes, Michael Dove, Yale University Press, 2015
In Outer Space: Faszination Weltraum, Bundeskunsthalle, Nicolai, 2015
Dissident Futures, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2014
A Planetary Order, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, 2014
Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012, Helen Luckett, Hayward Gallery, 2012
Manifesto for a Republic of the Moon, ed Claudia Lastra, Arts Catalyst, 2014
Curiosity: Art, Wonder and the Pleasures of Knowing, Hayward Publishing, 2013
Documents of Contemporary Art: Time, ed Amelia Groom MIT press, 2013
The Piano, Art Gallery of Alberta, 2013
LIGHT SHOW, Hayward Publishing, 2013
Tipping Point, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2013
Reason & Emotion: Landscape and the Contemporary Romantic, ed Rebecca Partridge, 2013
Earth Sound Earth Signal, Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, Douglas Kahn, 2013
Metaphoria, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2012
The Unseen – 4th Guangzhou Triennial, catalogue, 2012
Marking Time, MCA Sydney, 2012
Beyond Contemporary Art, Etan Ilfeld, Vivays Publishing, 2012
Katie Paterson, Inside this Desert, BAWAG Foundation Vienna, 2012
Wild Sky, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Hatje Cantz, 2011
Space. About a Dream, Gerald A. Matt and Catherine Hug Kunsthalle Wien, 2011
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight, James Attlee, University Of Chicago Press, 2011
What Good Is the Moon?: The Exhibitions of the Trussardi Foundation, Hatje Cantz, 2010
Systematic, catalogue, Zabludowicz Collection, 2010
Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory, eds. Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman Phaidon Press, 2009
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Publishing, 2009
Earth-Moon-Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon), Modern Art Oxford, 2008
ARTICLES
The Guardian’s coverage of Future Library every year
Katie Paterson, Apocalypse Now? The List, 2024
Apple park’s Mirage sculpture takes shape as iridescent glass pillars winding through trees, DesignBoom, 2023
Mirage at Apple Park, Glass Quarterly, 2023
Why Katie Paterson is turning forests into incense sticks, Skye Sherwin, 2023
Kinfolk, Katie Paterson, Issue 40, 2022
‘An elegy to a disappearing planet’ – Katie Paterson in Edinburgh, reviewed, Samuel Reilly, Apollo, 2022
The Times, Katie Paterson: Requiem at Ingleby Gallery — the birth, life and death of our planet, 2022
The Quietus, A Handful Of Dust: An Interview With Katie Paterson, 2022
The Sunday Post, Making history: Artist who’s got the whole world in her jar, 2022
Katie Paterson: an Elegy for Planet Earth at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, ArtMag, 2022
The Saddest Work: a new artwork about deep time, It’s Freezing in LA!, 2022
In Edinburgh, an urn containing dust older than the sun provides an elegy to our disappearing world, the Art Newspaper, 2022
The Literary Hub, The Dust of Ancient Suns: Making Art and Meaning From the Depths of Deep Time, David Farrier on the Work of Katie Paterson, 2022
The Guardian view on Oslo’s Future Library: hope in practice, Trees, vision and shelf space are all needed for an exemplary project that will hide books for a century, 2022
The Herald, Galleries: Katie Paterson Grinds Historic Fragments Into Dust, Sarah Urwin Jones, 2022
The Telegraph, How great art can help you travel through time, David Farrier, 2021
SEISMA Magazine, EDITION 02 : ASTROPHYSICS, Paul Carey-Kent, 2021
The Architectural Review, A Room Darkened In Time With A Solar Eclipse, 2020
The Times, NOW: Katie Paterson — cosmic show shoots for the moon, Ashley Davies, 2020
Sculpture Magazine, Fleeting Little Thoughts: A Conversation with Katie Paterson, Elizabeth Fullerton, 2020
Creative Responses to Sustainability, Culture 360, 2020
The Guardian, ‘You’ll have to die to get these texts’: Ocean Vuong’s next manuscript to be unveiled in 2114, 2020
Viking Magazine, Books for the Future, 2021
The Times, review, Katie Paterson: A new exhibition boldly goes where no artist has gone before, Nancy Durrant, 2019
The Times, Style Magazine, Margaret Atwood Has Nominated The 12 Women Who Are Shaping Our Future, 2019
Frieze, Life in Astronomy No 204, 2019
Katie Paterson & JMW Turner, World of interiors, 2019
The Guardian, Katie Paterson’s cosmic art, Patrick Barkham, 2019
Scottish Art News, Katie Paterson: Past, Present and the Future Library, Neil Cooper, 2019
The Scotsman, Art review: NOW | Katie Paterson, Darren Almond, Shona Macnaughton and Lucy Raven, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2019
The Scotsman, Ones to watch in 2019: Katie Paterson, artist
Financial Times, Katie Paterson and JMW Turner at Turner Contemporary — worlds apart, Simon Ing, 2019
The Economist, Prospero, Katie Paterson’s celestial art, 2019
Financial Times, Critics Choice, Jackie Wullschläger, 2019
Nature, Artist of deep time, Philip Ball, 2019
The New York Times, This Library Has New Books by Major Authors… , Merve Emre, 2018
Sculpture Magazine, itinerary, 2018
The Saturday Paper, Tome capsule, Kate Hennessy, 2018
Nothing in The Rulebook, Creatives in profile – interview with Katie Paterson, 2018
MAYDAY Magazine, Issue 2, Blue Marble in Space and Art, 2018
Utopie: Faire pousser des livres, Chrystèle Bazin, 2018
Katie Paterson: ‘As a child, I used to practise daydreaming’, Veronica Simpson, Studio International, 2016
Phox Pop magazine Issue 4, 2017
The Herald, Inside the weird world of Scotland’s coolest and craziest artists, Vicky Allan, 2016
Inside a Glacier to Out of This World, Sunday Mail, 2016
Katie Paterson: The Poetry of Scale, Aesthetica Magazine, 2016
The Telegraph, Untold Stories of a Norwegian Wood, Gaby Wood, 2016
Wired, Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell Have Written New Fiction—If You Can Wait 98 Years to Read It, Charlie Locke, 2016
Artist’s Newsletter, A Q&A with… Katie Paterson, artist and cosmic explorer, 2016
Apollo, Fitting the entire universe into an art gallery, Melanie Vandenbrouck, 2016
Visit Oslo, The Future Library In Nordmarka, 2016
Huck, The Trees In This Norwegian Forest Will One Day Become The Greatest Books Of Our Time, 2016
Psychology Today, Turning Back Time, 2016
Observer, Scottish Artist Taps David Mitchell to Write a Book for a 100-Year Time Capsule, Casey Quackenbush, 2015
The Guardian, Into the woods: Margaret Atwood reveals her Future Library book, Scribbler Moon, Alison Flood, 2015
52 Insights, Katie Paterson, The Science of Art, 2015
The Guardian, Grand Theft Author: I’d wait 100 years to read Margaret Atwood-but many wouldn’t, Natalie Haynes, 2015
Open Skies, Emirates Magazine Something is going on in Norway. It involves the greatest writers of our generation… by Christopher Beanland, 2015
Smithsonian Magazine, A Meteorite Returns to Space In the Name of Art, 2015
super/collider, Katie Paterson, 2015
Monocle, Tomorrow People, Rebecca Unger, 2015
AnOther, The Cosmic Conceptual Art of Katie Paterson, Daisy Woodward, 2015
Maze, Du langage dans l’art Silvia Bachli et Katie Paterson au FRAC Franche-comté by Alexandre Caretti, 2015
Apollo, Looking ahead: Katie Paterson discusses her Future Library by Crystal Bennes, 2014
A-N Magazine, Katie Paterson – Ideas by Rowan Lear, 2014
ArtForum, 1000 Words: Katie Paterson and Margaret Atwood by Lars Bang Larsen, 2014
Freunde von Freunden, Katie Paterson, Alicia Reuter, 2014
Die Presse Literatur, mit langen Atem by Daniel Kalt, 2014
Artdependence, Behold the Future: Katie Paterson interview by Rajesh Punj, 2014
The New York Times, Sunday Review, Katie Paterson, 2014
The New York Times, 2114: A Library Project by the Editorial Board
The New York Times, New Margaret Atwood Work Coming in … 2114? by Jennifer Schuessler, 2014
The Globe and Mail, Margaret Atwood’s next project is due in the 22nd century, 2014
Scotland on Sunday, Book may be a best seller – not for 100 years by Stephen McGinty, 2014
The Sunday Times, Seeing Stars and Stripes by Hugh Pearman, 2014
The Guardian, Margaret Atwood’s new work will remain unseen for a century by Alison Flood, 2014
The Times, Katie Paterson, Ideas by Nancy Durrant, 2014
Studio International, Katie Paterson: Earth-Moon-Earth by Darren Anderson, 2014
Frame, Introducing: Katie Paterson, 2014
Vitra, From Cosmology to Jewellery, 2014
This is Tomorrow, Katie Paterson: Ideas, 2014
Hyperallergic, Artist’s 100-Year Project Will Grow Books from Saplings by Jillian Steinhauer, 2014
Sculpture Magazine, Katie Paterson, Dark Matter by Joshua Reiman, 2014
The Independent, Katie Paterson, In the Studio by Karen Wright, 2014
The Economist, Expanding Universe, In the Studio, 2014
The Times, The Turner-tipped artist who’s out of this world by Mike Wade, 2014
The Paris Review, Future Library by Dan Pipenbring, 2014
Vice, An Artist Is Growing a Forest That’ll Become a Library of Books in 100 Years by Nell Frizzell, 2014
Kunstkritikk, Om hundre år kommer alt for en dag by Mariann Enge, 2014
The Times, Art shoots for the stars with Katie Paterson’s Second Moon by Rachel Campbell-Johnston, 2013
Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 23, Dead Silence: Ecological Silencing And Environmentally Engaged Sound-art, Dugal Mckinnon, 2013
Hyperallergic, The Moon in a Box by Mark Sheerin, 2013
The Guardian, Critic’s choice, 2013
X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, On Starlight and Celestial Darkness: Human Vision and Cosmic Revision by Neha Choksi, 2013
Aesthetica, Review of Katie Paterson Exhibition at Kettle’s Yard Gallery & St Peter’s Church, Cambridge, 2013
Conveyor, Katie Paterson: White Light in Dark Matter by Sylvia Hardy, Issue 4, 2012
Artforum, Best of 2012, the Artists’ Artists, 2012
Whitewall, Katie Paterson: 100 Billion Suns, 2012
The Guardian, Katie Paterson, The Cosmicomical Artist, Brian Dillon, 2012
Modern Painters, Staring into Space: Katie Paterson shoots for the heavens, Coline Miliard, 2012
The Evening Standard (London), Katie Paterson: Me and my meteorite, Ben Luke, 2012
The Independent, Katie Paterson: 100 Billion Suns, Zoe Pilger, 2012
The Guardian, When a young artist meets an ancient meteorite, Vanessa Thorpe, 2012
The Creator’s Project, How To Melt A Meteorite, 2012
Artforum, London Critic’s picks, 2012
The Gentlewoman (Issue 3), Modern Astronomy, with Katie Paterson, 2011
AnOther Magazine, 100 Billion Suns: Katie Paterson’s confetti rainbows, Skye Sherwin, 2011
