Katie Paterson (born 1981, Scotland) is known for her conceptual artworks that have involved broadcasting the sounds of a melting glacier live, mapping all the dead stars in the universe, compiling a slide archive of the history of darkness across the ages, custom-making a light bulb to simulate the experience of moonlight, burying a nano-sized grain of sand deep within the Sahara desert, and sending a re-cast meteorite back into space. Throughout her career she has worked closely with scientists at Caltech, University College London, and European Space Agency to develop and form artistic explorations. In 2012, she was Artist in Residence at The Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, culminating in the artwork ‘Fossil Necklace’ a string of worlds, with each bead representing a major event in the evolution of life through geological time. Katie has exhibited internationally, from London to New York, Berlin to Seoul, and her works have been included in major exhibitions such as Tate Britain, Hayward Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Guggenheim Museum New York, and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. She was the winner of the Visual Arts category of the South Bank Awards, and is an honorary fellow of Edinburgh University.