Education
Stanford University, MFA Art Practice, 2011
UC Santa Barbara, BFA Studio Art, 1991
Group Exhibitions
Maison Contemporain, Paris, France, online exhibition, November 2020-November 2021
QUEER, ACE/121, Glendale, CA June 2020
Midnight Moon, Raw Meat Collective, NYC, online exhibition, May-June 2020
What are you currently making? Coronavirus Show, Borderline Art Collective, San Francisco, online exhibition, April-May 2020
Viva La Vulva, 111 Minna, San Francisco, January 2020
Twisted Windows, SOMArts, San Francisco, September 2019
Stonewall 50 Years, Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco, June-July 2019
Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Gallery, NYC, May 2019
Queers & Comics Conference, School of Visual Arts, NYC, May 2019
Queer Sex Workers? Art Show, Brew, Santa Rosa, March 2019
What makes you queer? Roslin Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, June 2018
Art, Utopia & Other Big Dreams by Poppers the Pony, performance commissioned for Ev?ry Body, This Time: a Sexuality Studies Conference, University of California Berkeley, April 2018
Pages of the Butch Coloring Book, Mermaid Tattoo Studio, San Francisco, June 2017
Nasty Women, Omi Gallery, Oakland, CA, January 2017
ISO Queer Gods, June 2016, Root Division, San Francisco
Deviance, Liminal Space, Oakland, February-June 2016
The Dog and Pony Show, Antebellum Gallery, Hollywood, August 2015
LGBT Comics and Zine Show, Cartoon Art Expo, San Francisco, June 2015
Glitterbomb, SOMArts, San Francisco, June 2015
LadyFest, MOCO Gallery, June-July 2014, Oakland, CA
Work MORE 6#, SOMArts, San Francisco, March 2014
Trans/Post, William Way LGBT Community Center Gallery, Philadelphia, November 2012 How to Read a Book: an artists’ book reading room, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin- Green Bay, October 2012
Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York City, March 2012 Momentum, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, February-March 2012
Neither Here Nor There, ARC, San Francisco, August 2011
Queer It Yourself, SOMArt, San Francisco, June 2011
Scramble, Thomas Welton Stanford Gallery, Stanford, May-June 2011
Sincerely Yours, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, April-May 2011
At Bay II: Phelan, Murphy, Cadogan Award Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, March 2011
Bestiary, Million Fishes, San Francisco, October 2010
Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archive, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, June 2010 Devil-May-Care, Thomas Welton Stanford Gallery, Stanford, January 2010
Published Artwork & Comics
Butch Coloring Book, Volume 3, Stoic Press, Spring 2021, Northampton, MA
Conversation on Art Censorship with me, Tina Horn and Justin Hall (untitled), Foglifter Journal, Spring 2021, San Francisco
Artist Feature, The Herd, February 2021, Petaluma, CA
To Be a Jewish Dyke in the 21st Century, Sinister Wisdom, Winter 2021, Florida
Why is SOMA CBD Censoring Community Art, 48 Hills, December 2020
A View from the Easel During Times of Quarantine, Hyperallergic, April 2020,
The Quarantine Zine, Taylor Kuether, April 2020, online
Her Pangolin Majestic, The Stage Mirror, December 2019, illustration for permanent use as graphics in Grace Lavery’s E-newsletter
Radical Jewish Calendar 5780, 2019, Olympia, WA
LGBT Resistance Fighters of & WW2 Coloring Book, 2018, Stacked Deck Press, Walnut, CA
Kid Unfriendly, issues 1-6, 2018, self-published mini comics
Butch Coloring Book, Vol. 2, Summer 2018, Stacked Deck Press, Walnut, CA
Butch Coloring Book, Vol. 1, 2017, Stacked Deck Press, Walnut, CA
Sensitive Outsider Artist, Alphabet, 2016, Stacked Deck Press, Walnut, CA
Box of Books, Vol IX, 2016, Tiny Splendor & Darin Klein, Los Angeles, CA
How I Explored My Gender Identity Through Pony Play, Harlot Media, 3/3/16 illustration to story by Brandy Lewis, Oakland, CA
Animal Sex Activity & Coloring Book, 2015, self-published zine
Poppers the Pony’s Field Guide to Horses, 2016, self-published zine
Sex Still Spoken Here, 2014, Sex and Culture Press, San Francisco
Hyena, Mikita Brottman, 2012, Reaktion Books, London, UK
Salome’s Modernity, Petra Dierkes-Thrun, 2011, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues, Loren Rhoads, 2009, Scribner, New York, NY
The Human Pony, Rebecca Wilcox, 2008, Greenery Press
Solo Exhibitions
Come See My Stuff: Drawings by Poppers the Pony, Wicked Ground, San Francisco, January- May 2019
Poppers’ Petting Zoo, commissioned installation for Airtight, the Stud, San Francisco, Folsom Sunday, September 2018
Equuis: International Pony Play Event, Sanctuary-LAX, Lennox, California, August 2018.
Art Practice Makes Art Pervert, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, June-August 2017
People we know, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, November-December 2011
The Hyena Report, Micro Climate Project Space, San Francisco, Sept-Oct 2008
Poppers’ Shopper: paintings for the adventurous animal, Glama-Rama, San Francisco, July-Sept 2007
Reviews
https://laurietobyedison.com/body-impolitic-blog/2019/03/poppers-the-pony-rides-in-san-francisco-march-30/ Debbie Notkin, body impolitic blog, San Francisco, March 2018.
https://www.artpractical.com/column/the-performative-drawings-of-dorian-katz- aka-poppers-the-pony/Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, artpractical.com, San Francisco, May 2018.
https://www.autostraddle.com/fill-in-your-50s-60s-and-70s-butch-history-with-this-coloring-book-417718/ Carolyn Yates, autostraddle.com, April 2018
https://100days100women.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/dorian-katz/Henry Martin, #100days100women: a blog celebrating women artists, United Kingdom, February 2018.
https://balaclavadotq.com/2017/09/22/artist-dorian-katz-a-k-a-poppers-the-pony/ Stiofan O?Ceallaigh, balaclavadotq.com: an international queer art project and collective, Toronto, Canada, September 2017,
https://medium.com/@mayapeersnitzberg/art-practice-makes-art-pervert-meet-the-artist-43033c61bc85 Maya Peers Nitzberg, medium.com, May 2017
Community Affiliations
Woman of the Year, San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance, 2018
Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, Gallery Director, 2011-2018 and board member 2017 to present
Leather Cultural District Legislation Committee, 2017-2018
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