Katie Quan (she/her) is a third-generation Chinese American born and raised on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco). She is a community multidisciplinary artist and Ethnic Studies educator. Her primary medium is digital arts with an emphasis on comics and illustration. She is discovering her love for filmmaking, public art, and (again) oil pastel.

Her art practice and philosophy is deeply rooted in her community, drawing inspiration and motivation from the 1968 Third World Liberation Strike. Therefore, you can find her work all around San Francisco, exhibiting at SOMArts, Kearny Street Workshop, and Angel Island Immigration Station. Her first short film, "REAL SOUL", details her own artistic journey from classroom teacher to arts education business owner. Her second short film, "From the Ground Up" weaves stories of an Asian American artist, archivist, and historian, and is currently being showcased all around the Bay Area.

She was selected as an Individual Arts Fellow from California Arts Council and Youth Speaks (2023) and AAPI Creative Catalyst Fellow from AAPI Civic Engagement Fund (2025). In 2026, her work received the SFAC Artist Impact Endowment, managing REALSOUL's "Distance Between: Stories of Refuge, Return, Remembering" two year project, bringing four artists to SFUSD schools. In 2027, she will serve as the curator for the Asian American Women Artists Association's biennial art exhibition at SOMArts.

As a former instructor of Asian American Studies at City College of San Francisco and San Francisco State University, Katie founded REALSOUL, a curriculum-based arts organization for K-8. The mission of REALSOUL is to foster cross-cultural solidarity and ignite collective action through curriculum, programming, and workshops.

In her free time, Katie volunteers for community organizations with a focus on arts, culture, and history. In her free time, you can find her sleeping, caring for her indoor plants, or rereading her daughter's favorite book "Homemade Love" for the millionth time.