Katherine Kuharic was born in 1962 in South Bend, IN. She completed her BFA in Painting and Drawing at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984, and then moved to New York City where she studied with Louise Bourgeois and Robert Storr at the School of Visual Arts.

Katherine’s work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in the US and abroad including Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Stockholm, London, and Amsterdam. She has had fourteen solo exhibitions, including seven at P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York, which represents her work. Most recently, her work has been exhibited in several museum shows: “Homestyle: A Survey of Works on Paper” at the South Bend Regional Museum in South Bend, IN, “Low Road” at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art Museum in Wilmington, DE, “ The World Brought Low,” a project at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, MO and “Super Bowl Sunday” at the St. Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, MO.

Katherine Kuharic’s work has been reviewed in Tema Celeste magazine, the Village Voice, the New York Times, the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Time Out magazine. Articles on her work have appeared in Out magazine, Parkett magazine, and Arts magazine. Her work was a featured project for Bomb magazine. Her work has appeared on the cover of Jane DeLynn’s novel, Leash. Her book One Leaf Fell (illustrated by her alter ego, Minerva McIntyre) was published by Stewart, Tabori, and Chang.

Katherine Kuharic has received grants from Vogelstein Foundation, the Penny McCall Foundation, Art Matters and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was named the Milton and Sally Avery Fellow for 2003 and 2004 at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, and a Rockefeller Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy.

Professor Kuharic has recently been named the Kevin Kennedy Associate Professor of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. This summer, she served as critic and Painter-in Residence at the Yale University, Yale Norfolk program in Norfolk, CT. Before coming to Hamilton, she was Associate Professor and Coordinator of the painting program at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Katherine has held positions at the School of Visual Arts, the New School, Parsons and the Yale University School of Art. She has served on a number of panels and has lectured extensively at universities and museums: the Brooklyn Museum of Arts, the St. Louis Museum of Art, Yale University, Columbia University, NYU, the Core program at the Glassell School of Arts, the Hartford School of Arts, Otis and the University of Notre Dame.

The Kevin Kennedy Professorship was recently endowed at Hamilton College. Katharine Kuharic was appointed July 1st to serve as the first Kevin Kennedy Professor.

 

EDUCATION

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

GRANTS AND AWARDS

RESIDENCIES

PUBLISHED WORKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

VISITING ARTISTS & LECTURER

PANELIST

BRIO (Bronx Rewards Its Own) Council on the Arts Award, Bronx, NY
Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY


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