MFA State University of New York, Purchase, NY
BA Bryn Mawr College, PA
AWARDS
2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, New York
2005 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2008 University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
2007 Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
2006 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2005 Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Aucosisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2004 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2002 Canaday Gallery, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
2001 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
2000 Galapagos, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
1999 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
1996 Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1994 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1993 ICON Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1990 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
Dean Valentgas Gallery, Portland, ME
1989 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Worth a Thousand Words, Brattleboro Museum, VT
Abstract Painting: Brooklyn, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC
2007 Orpheus Selection, In Search of Darkness, curated by Phong Bui, P.S.1, Queens, NY
Horizon, curated by David Humphrey, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
Tiny, curated by Bruce Brown, Whitney Galleries, Portland, ME
2006-07 SEAWORTHY: A Nautical Selection from Minton to Mermaids, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
2006 New Work: Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
Everywhichway, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Déjà vu, curated by Faye Hirsch, Gallery 230, Brooklyn, NY
Searching for Love and Fire, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FLA
Little Women, curated by James Kalm, Dam Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy
of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Summer Sustenance, A Gourmand’s Delight, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
New York’s Finest, Canada, New York, NY
NADA Art Fair, ATM Gallery, Miami, FL
Off the Coast: A Landscape Chronology, The Collections Gallery, Bates
College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
The Long View: Selections from the Norman B. Marin Collection, The
University of Maine Museum of Art, University of Maine, Bangor, ME
Portland Museum Biennial, Portland Museum, Portland, ME
2004 Home, curated by Bruce Brown, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, NY traveled to University of New England at Portland, ME
Drawings, curated by Barry Blinderman and Annie Herron, University
Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, traveled to Carlsbad
Museum and Art Center, Carlsbad, NM
Surrealist Drawings, Exquisite Corpses Today, Bowdoin College Art
Museum, Brunswick, ME
2003 The Lightness of Being, Black & White Gallery, New York, NY
Water, Water, curated by Lilly Wei, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selections from the Pierogi Flat Files, curated by Joe Arnheim, USM
Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
Volatile Bodies, curated by Carrie Powers, University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
2002 Project Room, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
In the Spirit of Landscape, Neilson Gallery, Boston, MA
Works on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Past Present Future, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
All Drawing, Gallery 831, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Brooklyn Rail Presents, curated by Phong Bui, Brooklyn, NY
Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY
2001 Hidden Identity, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Wet!, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
Ripe and Hazy, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY
Domestic Culture, curated by Mark Bessire, Institute of Contemporary
Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2000 The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for
Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Living Is Easy, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown
Collection, The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Homage to Albert Pinkham Ryder, curated by Phong Bui, State of the Art, Brooklyn, NY
On Paper: Bradford, Jacquette, Hildreth, Mayers, Maine Art Gallery,
Wiscasset, ME
1999 The Passion/Passions of Art, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York,
NY
Group Show, Rebecca lbel Gallery, Columbus, OH
Drawing Show, N3, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
The Flat Files, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Invitational, Tig Fill Gallery, Cork, Ireland, UK
1998 Painting, N3, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
New York Drawers, Gasworks Gallery, London, England
Pierogi Press, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
Six Chose Six, Purchase College, S.U.N.Y, Purchase, NY
Ten from Brooklyn, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1997 Current Undercurrent, Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North
Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Intimate Universe Revisited, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
traveled to Nina Freidheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Modern Prints, Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College,
Waterville, ME
Relocating Landscape East and West, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ
1996 Gramercy International Art Fair, Bernard Toale Gallery, Gramercy
Park Hotel, New York, NY
Grand Salon, Room, New York, NY
Pet Paintings, Bernard Toale Gallery Boston, MA
1995 Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Inaugural Show, Room, Thompson Street at Grand, New York, NY
Group Show, Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY Purchase, Purchase College,
Purchase, NY
1994 Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Small and Wet, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Katherine Bradford and Frank Palaia, Hartman & White, San Diego, CA
1993 My/Self ...Your/Other: Contemporary Women Artists and the Issue of
Identity,” Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Childhood Show, Art in General, New York, NY
Inaugural Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY
1992 Invitational, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Relief Prints by 15 New York Artists, Michael Walls Gallery, New York,
NY
Group Show, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Intimate Universe: Small Scale Abstract Painting, Michael Walls Gallery
New York, NY
Home/ A Visual Dialogue, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Shifting Ground, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1991 American Art Today: New Directions, The Art Museum, FL
International University, Miami, FL (catalogue, illustrated)
The Painters, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina At Greensboro, NC
Sooner or Later, Edward Albee’s Eye, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long
Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY (catalogue, photo)
New York Art 1990, Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York,
Oswego, NY
Selected Works on Paper, Victoria Munroe Gallery New York, NY
1989 Traditions in American Landscape, Portland Museum of Art,
Portland, ME
Katherine Bradford, Ernest Briggs, Emily Nelligan, Anne Weber Gallery
Georgetown, ME
Ten Artists, Ten Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Invitational, Condeso Lawler Gallery New York, NY
1988 Katherine Bradford, Laura Newman, Jean Feinberg, Elizebeth
Dworkin, Victoria Munroe Gallery New York, NY
Works on Paper, curated by Lyn Gumpert, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (catalogue)
Katherine Bradford/Don Voisine, Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
1987 Gallery Artists, Victoria Monroe Gallery New York, NY
The Anti-Ego Show, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Recent Painting and Sculpture, Visual Arts Gallery, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
1986 Black and White Prevails: A Selection of Contemporary Drawings,
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL (catalogue)
Preludes, Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Portland Museum
Farnsworth Museum
Bates College Museum
Bowdoin College Museum
Smith College Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, MFA Faculty (1997 to present)
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York, NY, (1995 to present)
SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY, (1994)
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