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

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

Etre Pierre, Musee Zadkine, 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

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

Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012, Helen Luckett, Hayward Gallery, 2012

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

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

Beyond Contemporary Art, Etan Ilfeld, Vivays Publishing, 2012

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
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
‘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
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
