About
Sasha Katz (born in Moscow in 1984) is a visual artist and illustrator living and working in Paris. Her work challenges and redefines conventional beauty standards, celebrating profound admiration for women.
Works
Sweet Delight
SASHA KATZ
2022
3D modeling
Print on Hahnemühle paper
Inspired by dreamlike, incantatory lines 123-124 from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence, this work further explores the symbolism of the poem by putting its two heroines in the aforementioned state of “sweet delight” — as opposed to the “endless night” of misery and suffering.
Our world and our lives, Blake is saying, is defined by these two forever shifting states, the states of sad and happy. And the process never ends — unless you find a way to break out of it. For Sasha Katz, the way to get out of this circle of altering moods is that of loving another being unconditionally and submitting yourself to a wonderful state — a spiritual day-time, full of joy. © Xenia Golovanova
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Whispers #3
SASHA KATZ
2023
3D modeling
Print on Hahnemühle paper
What if tatoos could talk? What would they tell their owner?
Sasha Katz used Japanese dragons illustrations from the late Edo period as inspiration to explore the embodiment of strength and serenity, and invite the viewer to hear their whispers, whether kind or malicious. Is it our subconscious talking and drawing us towards a realm of uncharted marvels and unvoiced musings?
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Karabasan (Sleep Paralysis series)
SASHA KATZ
2023
3D modeling
PNG
Sleep paralysis episodes are among the most terrifying or relaxing experiences that can happen to you. When your brain wakes before your body, you are left in a cage you don’t control, feeling what it means to be impotent against your urge to exert control on your flesh.
Influenced by Henry Fuseli’s painting The Nightmare (1781), Sasha Katz explores the liminal time when the mind perceives hallucinations, creatures and objects that cannot be detected when it is completely awake.
Lit by a mystical spotlight, white bodies are found half-asleep in dramatic poses, as if they were battling with the minds trying to control them in a way that reminds the Dying Slave (1513-1516) by Michelangelo. Black cats, which may be real or not, intertwine with the flesh of the models, becoming a companion that brings uncomfortableness and disquietude. ©Filippo Lorenzin
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Radio Silence #1
SASHA KATZ
2022
3D modeling
Print on Hahnemühle paper
Radio Silence features close-ups of women smoking. The radio is not broadcasting anymore, we can just hear its static noise and the cracking of the cigarettes. Smoke is filling the space, materializing invisible thoughts, giving time consistency.
Recurring themes in Sasha Katz’s work, loneliness and osmosis are the subjects of this series. “I believe white noise is connected to the signal of the outer space, and that when you are listening to it you are connected to all the people also listening to it. It connects you through the thread of solitude, says the artist. In that moment, the quiet hum becomes a subtle bridge between isolated minds.”
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Radio Silence #2
SASHA KATZ
2022
3D modeling
Print on Hahnemühle paper
Radio Silence features close-ups of women smoking. The radio is not broadcasting anymore, we can just hear its static noise and the cracking of the cigarettes. Smoke is filling the space, materializing invisible thoughts, giving time consistency.
Recurring themes in Sasha Katz’s work, loneliness and osmosis are the subjects of this series. “I believe white noise is connected to the signal of the outer space, and that when you are listening to it you are connected to all the people also listening to it. It connects you through the thread of solitude, says the artist. In that moment, the quiet hum becomes a subtle bridge between isolated minds.”
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Radio Silence #3
SASHA KATZ
2022
3D modeling
Print on Hahnemühle paper
Radio Silence features close-ups of women smoking. The radio is not broadcasting anymore, we can just hear its static noise and the cracking of the cigarettes. Smoke is filling the space, materializing invisible thoughts, giving time consistency.
Recurring themes in Sasha Katz’s work, loneliness and osmosis are the subjects of this series. “I believe white noise is connected to the signal of the outer space, and that when you are listening to it you are connected to all the people also listening to it. It connects you through the thread of solitude, says the artist. In that moment, the quiet hum becomes a subtle bridge between isolated minds.”
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Yakamoz #1
SASHA KATZ
2023
3D modeling
PNG
Yakamoz, meaning “the shimmering of the moonlight as it reflects on the water at night” in Turkish, recalls the world of mermaids and mavkas that inhabited the artist’s childhood. In this series inspired by a time in her life she spent in Istanbul, Sasha Katz envisions her own myth, in which people we love and lost forever will be waiting for us at the bottom of the sea. And if we go deep in there, we’ll find them. A tragic subject exalted by the beauty of the images and the living love found just below the surface.
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Yakamoz #2
SASHA KATZ
2023
3D modeling
PNG
Yakamoz, meaning “the shimmering of the moonlight as it reflects on the water at night” in Turkish, recalls the world of mermaids and mavkas that inhabited the artist’s childhood. In this series inspired by a time in her life she spent in Istanbul, Sasha Katz envisions her own myth, in which people we love and lost forever will be waiting for us at the bottom of the sea. And if we go deep in there, we’ll find them. A tragic subject exalted by the beauty of the images and the living love found just below the surface.
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Twilight Drive #1
SASHA KATZ
2024
3D modeling
JPG
Twilight Drive inaugurates a new type of work, in which both figures and settings play an equal role, telling a mysterious story, dream or nightmare. Inspired by Hitchcock and David Lynch for their use of light, frame, plots and cliché characters, Sasha Katz sets the scene, let the heroines live on their own, and the viewers imagine what is going on.
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Twilight Drive #2
SASHA KATZ
2023
3D modeling
JPG
Twilight Drive inaugurates a new type of work, in which both figures and settings play an equal role, telling a mysterious story, dream or nightmare. Inspired by Hitchcock and David Lynch for their use of light, frame, plots and cliché characters, Sasha Katz sets the scene, let the heroines live on their own, and the viewers imagine what is going on.
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Orgasm #1
SASHA KATZ
2024
3D modeling
PNG
First of a series yet to be developed, Orgasm #1 features a portrait after Kyōko Kishida’s performance in the 1964 Japanese movie Woman in the Dunes by avant-gardist filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara. This artwork screams its life force to the prevailing melancholy.
Work presented as part of the “Sasha Katz & Guests »” exhibition at Galerie Data, Paris, 2025
Les Baigneuses #1
SASHA KATZ
Influenced by the diverse interpretations of the subject of « bathers" throughout art history, the series follows the tradition of portraying bathers through the mystical lens of Slavic mythology, particularly focusing on the concept of "mavkas". In Slavic folklore, mavkas are the spirits of drowned women who are believed to entice the living men into the water, where they tickle them to death. Death, in this context, serves as a cleansing force, washing away shame and allowing the spirits of the drowned to transcend into a realm between the living and the dead.
Artwork presented at "The Poetics of Water", an exhibition organized in collaboration with DANAE, Paris, 2024.
Les Baigneuses #2
SASHA KATZ
Influenced by the diverse interpretations of the subject of "bathers" throughout art history, the series follows the tradition of portraying bathers through the mystical lens of Slavic mythology, particularly focusing on the concept of "mavkas". In Slavic folklore, mavkas are the spirits of drowned women who are believed to entice the living men into the water, where they tickle them to death. Death, in this context, serves as a cleansing force, washing away shame and allowing the spirits of the drowned to transcend into a realm between the living and the dead.
Artwork presented at "The Poetics of Water", an exhibition organized in collaboration with DANAE, Paris, 2024.
Les Baigneuses #3
SASHA KATZ
Influenced by the diverse interpretations of the subject of « bathers" throughout art history, the series follows the tradition of portraying bathers through the mystical lens of Slavic mythology, particularly focusing on the concept of "mavkas". In Slavic folklore, mavkas are the spirits of drowned women who are believed to entice the living men into the water, where they tickle them to death. Death, in this context, serves as a cleansing force, washing away shame and allowing the spirits of the drowned to transcend into a realm between the living and the dead.
Artwork presented at "The Poetics of Water", an exhibition organized in collaboration with DANAE, Paris, 2024.