Hello!

I am Jason Kattenhorn, a freelance queer illustrator, Artist facilitator & Educator based between London and Banbury, UK. I run zine and other creative workshops exploring the themes of love, friendship and connection.   My illustration work usually depicts those LGBTQ+ bodies we are told to hide. I love to explore queer intimacy and positivity in all its forms because queer bodies are awesome; they are resilient, and they are beautiful.

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In 2016 I created Sassify Zine an award winning queer culture print magazine and online features website that luxuriates in queer art and sassiness.

You can watch my TEDx Talk 'Queer Art is not just for Queer people' here.

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Exhibitions 

2025 Fashion Beyond Gender Norms, Old Fire Station, Oxford.  

2025 Shelter National Exhibition, Outside In, New Art Gallery Walsall. 

2024 Queertopia Exhibition | Leamington Spa Gallery & Museum. 

2024 Ironstone Art prize Exhibition | Banbury Museum. 

2024 Embracing Our Differences | Sarasota’s Bayfront Park, Florida. 

2023 Madame F Queer Britain | Queer Britain, London. 

2022-2023 Young Masters Autumn Exhibition | Cynthia Corbet Gallery, London. 

2023 Queer! | Norman Rea Gallery, York. 

2019-2020 Queering Spires | Museum of Oxford.

 

Commissions | Selected Curatorial Projects & Workshops 

2025 Queering Joy Zine and other creative workshops, Banbury | Welcome Together Oxford. 

2025 Queering Joy Zine, Printed Issue, Banbury | Welcome Together Oxford. 

2025 Queering Joy Pride Zine workshops, Barnet, London | Barnet Council Community Fund. 

2025 Creative Practitioner, Zine Making Workshop, Gloucestershire College.  

2025 10 Years of Grrrl Zine Fair, Badge Making Workshop, Grrrl Zine Fair, Southend-On-Sea 

2025 Queer Zine making workshop, Our Oxford: 50 Years, 50 Stories Exhibition | Oxford Museum. 

2025 Queering Joy Drumming Workshop, Banbury | Thames Valley Police Community Fund. 

2023-2024 Queertopia Zine Project | Leamington Spa Gallery & Museum (Warwickshire Pride). 

2022 Critical Perspectives in Art and Culture, zine making workshop | Royal Academy of Arts, London. 

2021-2022 Curator, Drag Queen Story Corner, Beyond the Binary Exhibition | Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. 

2021-2023 Isolated Lens, Queer Pandemic Project | Queer Britain, London. 

2020-2022 Curator, Queer Artist Video Takeovers | Sassify Zine CIC, Banbury. 

2020 Invisible visible | Community LGBTQ+ Untold stories | Cornerstone Art Gallery. 

2018-Ongoing Curator, Queer Artist Spotlight interviews & features | Sassify Zine CIC, Banbury. 

2016-Ongoing Creative Practitioner, Sassify Zine | Printed Issues 1-7 | Sassify Zine CIC, Banbury. 

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Awards | Nominations 

2025 Inclusive Impact award at the Power of Place Midlands Museum Awards. 
(The awards are organised by Museum Development Midlands in partnership with Warwickshire Pride). 

2021 Cultural Magazine of The Year | Prestige Awards | Won. 

2019 Community Award, Volunteer of the Year | Castle Quay | Won. 

2024 Ironstone Art Prize | Banbury Museum | Shortlisted. 

2023 Madam F Art prize | Queer Britain | Shortlisted top 10. 

2019 National Diversity Award | National Diversity Awards | Shortlisted. 

 

Permanent Collections 

The Pitt Rivers Museum | Oxford. 

Museum of Oxford. 

National Library | London & Scotland. 

Grrrl Zine Fair Library. South-End-On-Sea

In Print Art Book Fair | Jerusalem. 

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Selected Lectures & Talks 

2025 Guest Speaker, Sassify Zine | BBC Radio Oxford. 

2025 Guest Speaker, Sassify Zine for Kathy Caton | BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Sussex. 

2024 Guest Speaker | Discussion on Creative Strategies for Feminist Anti-Racist Resistance | SOAS, University of London. 

2024 Guest Speaker | Friday Focus Celebrating Diversity | Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum. 

2022 Guest Speaker | Critical Perspectives in Art and Culture | Royal Academy of Arts London. 

2022 Guest Speaker | Amplify | Instagram Live chats | Zealous.Co 

2021 Guest Speaker | Causes We Love | Zebee.Co 

2019 TEDx Banbury | ‘Queer Art is not just for Queer people’ | TEDx. 

2018 Virtual Guest speaker | Sassify Zine | Working for Queer Utopia | BBC Oxford. 

Contact me by email or through Instagram with any commissions, questions or collaboration enquiries, I’d love to hear from you!

Email: sassifyzine@gmail.com

Instagram: @sassifyzine