Catherine Telford Keogh (b. Toronto, Canada; based in New York) works across sculpture and installation, following objects past the point of seduction as matter is held, crushed, preserved, resignified, and dissolved within systems of extraction and circulation, binding deep time and industrial acceleration within a single material field.

Selected projects and solo exhibitions include Feed, ILY2, New York (2026); Cradlers, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens (2025); Carriers (Gravity-Fed), GTA24 Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2024); and Shelf Life, Helena Anrather, New York (2023). Group exhibitions include the Bronx Museum; the Seattle Art Museum; the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; HESSE FLATOW, Amagansett; Galeria Fidelidade Arte, Lisbon; Franz Kaka, Toronto; and Public Gallery, London, among others.

Telford Keogh is the inaugural recipient of the Jack Galef Visual Arts Award from the Guggenheim and a 2026 Creative Capital awardee. She holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture and an M.A.R. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, both from Yale University.

At Coalesce, Telford Keogh will culture the bacterial communities living in the black sludge at the bottom of the Gowanus Canal and record their movement through microscopy. Translated from the microscopic into the architectural, those movements become the source material for the algorithmic stage of her larger project, Metabolic Rift, in which bacterial movement drives the installation's pneumatic and kinetic systems.