bio

Kate Csillagi (b. 1981) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Austin, Texas. Her practice grew out of the DIY world of zines, punk flyers, and album art, and has since expanded into murals, ferrocement sculpture, and immersive site-specific installations.

Her work breaches the boundaries of the familiar, summoning guardian figures, animism, and narratives that dissolve the veil between worlds. Moving fluidly between large-scale painting to watercolor studies and then to monumental ferrocement forms, she conjures spaces where the surreal and the sacred coexist. Csillagi’s imagery is part invocation, offering portals into her personal and relational mythologies, drawing viewers into a place where the absurd and everyday collide.

A native to Austin, she later attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Evergreen State College. Csillagi has shown work and contributed to art spaces throughout the United States in Reno, Nashville, New York, Austin, and Kingsbury. A founding member of ICOSA Collective in East Austin, she continues to cultivate a collaborative and nonconformist approach to her practice.