Artwork
Selected Works 2021-2026
Katana Sol’s visual practice moves across painting, illustration, public art, textiles, natural dye, and immersive installation.
Rooted in storytelling and world-building, the work explores relationships between memory, ecology, identity, spirituality, and collective imagination.
Across intimate drawings and large-scale public works, Sol uses image, material, color, and environment to create spaces for reflection, connection, and possibility.
Installation | Immersive Work
The Kelp Forest
The Kelp Forest is an immersive installation exploring radical interconnectedness through the metaphor of an underwater ecosystem.
Layered textiles, natural dye, projection, sound, and sculptural forms transform the gallery into an environment for rest, reflection, and discovery. The project brings together ecological relationships, cultural memory, community storytelling, and the idea that individual lives exist within larger interconnected systems.
2026
Public Art | Murals
Mi Amor Por Ti Es Verte Crecer
2025
Acrylic mural · 4 × 8 ft
Mi Centro · Tacoma, WA
Mi Amor Por Ti Es Verte Crecer tells the story of a woman born from the stars and sent to Nepantla in search of a lesson to bring home.
After years spent cultivating plant life and living alone, she discovers a kitten trapped among the needles of her otherworldly cacti. As she removes each needle, they magically become whiskers, giving the kitten sensitivity, feeling, and its first tears.
Believing she must surrender the love she has found, the woman prepares to return the kitten to the heavens. Instead, the planets appear across his body—a sign that he is to remain her familiar.
Her lesson is companionship; her reward is love.
Created for Mi Centro, the mural draws from mythology and storytelling to explore family, loss, emotional reconnection, safety, and finding belonging in the care of another. The story was also inspired by Sol’s grandmother and the feeling of safety found in returning to her arms.
For the lesson was companionship, and the reward was love.
Public Art | Murals
Best Friends
2025
Public signal-box artwork
Phinney Neighborhood Association · Seattle, WA (50th and Phinney)
Best Friends transforms everyday public infrastructure into a colorful moment of connection and imagination. Created as part of Phinney Neighborhood Association’s signal-box art initiative, the work brings Sol’s illustrative visual language into the neighborhood landscape.
Public Art | Murals
Eban
2023
Public mural
Black Student Coalition Space · Western Washington University · Bellingham, WA
Created for Western Washington University’s Black Student Coalition space, Eban uses symbolic imagery and an expansive visual language to contribute to a space centered on gathering, cultural connection, and student community.
Public Art | Murals
We Invite All the Children to Fly
2023
Acrylic mural · 4 × 8 ft
Rainier Valley Leadership Academy · Seattle, WA
We Invite All the Children to Fly centers imagination, possibility, and the freedom of young people to envision expansive futures. The work brings vibrant illustration into an educational environment as an invitation to dream beyond existing limitations.
Public Art | Murals
The Shared Journey
2021
1,200 sq. ft. multi-floor public artwork
Alma Clark Glass Hall · Western Washington University · Bellingham, WA
The Shared Journey is a large-scale public artwork spanning multiple floors of Alma Clark Glass Hall.
Created for the building’s Black and LGBTQ+ affinity housing communities, the work uses interconnected imagery to explore belonging, transformation, identity, and collective experience.
This work made Sol become the first Black Femme visual artist with works on Western’s campus.
PAINTING + ILLUSTRATION
"Seaweed Safe Space" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Commissioned by Seattle Public Library, 2025.
"The Kelp Forest" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Commissioned by Seattle Public Library, 2025.
"Read and Grow" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Commissioned by Seattle Public Library, 2025.
"Storyteller" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Commissioned by Seattle Public Library, 2025.
"Overflow". Acrylic on Canvas. Western Washington University. 2023.
"The Birth of Yemaya" 24 x 36 Acrylic on Board. 2026.
"Reciprocity" 18 x 24 Digital Print. Commissioned by The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle. 2025.
"Harmonies of Heritage" 18 x 24 Digital Print. Commissioned by The Historic South Downtown Committee. 2024.
"Drummer" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Commissioned by The Rhapsody Project. 2024.
"Seeds" 18 x 24 Digital Print. Commissioned by The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle. 2024.
"Sing to Me" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Poem: Sing to me across the seas of a story once told. A song that resonates at a frequency known in your bones. So that I may lift up the heavens, and reach new heights. For great strength lies through divinity, contained in my left and my right. Cause and effect. Push and Pull. 2023.
"Teacher" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Commissioned by The Rhapsody Project. 2025.
"Untitled" 3' x 4'. Image transfer, acrylic, and mixed media on paper. 2021.
"Unbroken Circle" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Commissioned by The Rhapsody Project. 2024.
"The Star" 11 x 17 Digital Print. Personal Practice. 2023.
"The Dream." 11 x 17 Digital Print. Created for mental health awareness and the focus on resting, to conserve your personal power. 2023.