About
Katherine Frazer is a designer and artist developing and subverting everyday technology. Frazer's design practice focuses on developing applications for creativity, working on several popular and free to use applications like Apple's Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform, and design tool Figma. Her artistic practice utilizes these productivity tools for alternative means – creating collages, animations and digital paintings using source material from her ikebana practice and her iPhone. The combination of these tools and her self-made digital, photographic, and photogrammetric assets serve as a way to develop and evolve an expansive personal lore.
Previously she worked at Apple as the design lead on Pages (on macOS, iOS, and iCloud), with contributions to Numbers,
Keynote and Apple Books. She designed the mobile version of Figma, and worked on experimental social
platforms
Muze (RIP)
and
Here.
Frazer returned to Apple, and currently works as a Senior Human-Interface Designer in Apple's Applications division. She works on Freeform, Keynote, Numbers, Pages with contributions to Notes, iOS and macOS operating systems.
Her work has been included in the
Rhizome Artbase
and Museum of Crypto Art collection, featured in
Codame Art and Tech Festival,
Dazed Digital,
Nylon Mag, and
PAPER Magazine, with commissions for RefractionDAO, Gemma Projects, NewHive (RIP) and MTV, and spoke at the 2021 edition of the New Museums' Net Aesthetics panel.
She graduated with degrees in Communication Design and Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon
University. Frazer is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Collections
2021
m n m l nailart+15blckberriez . . . 🕳
added to Museum of Crypto Art's collection
Exhibitions & Screenings
2023
Homecoming, Public Works Administration, Brooklyn, NY
2023
je délire, Wrong Biennial
2021
D:I:V | I:D:E, Museum of Crypto Art
2021
Foundation's first NFT drop
2018
Department of Love, Shanghai Curators Lab
2018
Visual Arts Show, Apple Inc.
2015
Deliverables, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2014
PGH365, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2013
PGH365, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2011
Floating & Drifting, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Concepts, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Commissions
2018
nocontact/east2west, commission for Publication Studio
2015
Parklets, commission for NewHive
Press, Interviews & Lectures
2022
Civilization, Issue 6 Contributor
2022
Image Contribution, Spike Art Magazine
2021
Artist Interview, hosted by Ever Gold Projects
2021
Artist Interview on
Art, on the internet, Rhizome
2021
Panelist x3,
NFT Happy Hour, Foundation
2021
Condé Nast Artist Talk
2021
Ikebana Tips for Software Design, IXDA Designer Talk
2021
Civilization
Issue 5 Contributor
2020
Ikebana Tips for Software Design, Figma Inc.
2020
Guest Critic – San Jose State University
2018
Civilization
Issue 1 contributor
2018
Teaching Assistant, Peer2Peer Web Workshop, Decentralized Web Summit, San
Francisco, CA
2016
Artist Feature, NewHive newsletter
2015
Future of Art
Panelist, Real Future Fair
2015
Artist Feature, NewHive newsletter
Awards, Grants & Certifications
2023
Level 3 Sogetsu Ikebana Certification
2019
Level 2 Sogetsu Ikebana Certification
2018
Level 1 Sogetsu Ikebana Certification
2015
AIGA Design Excellence Award
2015
Dean's List, All Semesters
2014
Edward Syzlinski Blue Sky Thinking Award
2014
Small Undergraduate Research Grant Recipient