Katherine Toukhy
EmergeNYC Flagship (2025)
Katherine Toukhy (she/her) draws from improvised movement, land-based imagery, and her Egyptian heritage to create figurative abstractions that nurture a desire for liberation and decolonization. She has lived in unceded Lenapehoking/ Brooklyn for over a decade and grew up part of a small Coptic Egyptian diaspora in Rhode Island. Toukhy has received support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, BRIC, The Laundromat Project, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, City Artist Corps, and Brooklyn Arts Council, among others. In 2023 she was an artist in residence at The Arab American National Museum where her work was acquired as part of the collection. She is currently a Culture Push fellow. She is also a certified meditation instructor and creative facilitator who combines mindfulness, movement, and art to work with people.