Katelynn Partanen is a Melbourne based, multidisciplinary artist. Her practice seeks to engage with ideas surrounding the absurd and the uncanny through Contemporary Surrealism.

Partanen assisted printmaker Geoffrey Ricardo in preparation for his 2014 exhibition 'Ad Absurdum'. In 2015 she was awarded the Youth Choice Award at the National Youth Week Art Competition. She was also involved in the creation of two large scale murals in Footscray, including Christie Widiarto's This is Footscray: Animated Wall Mural, which has screened at ACMI in 2015 and 2020.

Partanen is currently undertaking her final semester of the Bachelor of Fine Art at RMIT.