Education
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA
Cornell University, BFA
Public Collections
Parrish Art Museum
Cranbrook Art Museum
21c Museum Collection
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection
The Roberts Institue of Art, London
C-Collection, Principality of Liechtenstein
Residencies
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program, NY
The Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA
(FAWC Visual Committee Board Member 2010-current)
Jentel Artists Residency, Wyoming
Grants
Virginia Groot Foundation Award, 2013
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award, (NYFA) 2014
Nominations
USA Fellowship Award
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Visiting Critic
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
New York Academy of Art
University of Kentucky
SOLO Exhibitions
Solo Museum and Gallery Exhibitions
2022
“Kate Clark: “Only One Rule” 542 West 24th Street, New York, NY
2017
“Kate Clark: Mysterious Presence” Hilliard Museum
2016
“Kate Clark: Mysterious Presence” Newcomb Art Museum
2010
“Kate Clark: Give and Take,” Mobile Museum of Art
2008
“Kate Clark: Perfect Strangers,” Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2007
“Kate Clark, Hudson D. Walker Gallery”, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
GROUP Exhibitions
Group Museum and Gallery Exhibitions
2023
“Beltane” Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall, UK, May-June, 2023 “Yule” Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall, UK, Dec, 2022- Jan. 2023
“The Supernatural” 21c Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Feb 2022- Feb 2023
2022
“Mabon” Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall, UK, Sept - Oct, 2022
“Super Real”, Dru Arstark Fine Art, New York, NY, Oct, 2022
“Thresholds (The Unnamed)” Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall, UK, Jan- Feb 2022
2021
“Give Me Some Skin” Sugarlift Gallery, New York, NY , April - May, 2021
“With Eyes Opened” Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, June- Oct, 2021
”Castles of Sand”, Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall, UK, May - Oct, 2021
“A Woman’s Work” Iona Collage, New Rochelle, NY
2020
“Beyond Ourselves” Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall, UK
“2020 Vision ” Southampton Art Center, Southampton, NY
“Pleasure”, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology , Melbourne, Australia
“Ode to a Nightingale” Anima Mundi Gallery, Cornwall, UK
”Intersect Chicago” Monica King Contemporary
”New Visions” MoCA LI, Patchogue, NY
2019
“The Book of Beasts” The Bestiary in the Medieval World, J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, CA
“Encounters ” Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
“Furies, Fairies and Visionaries”, Pen and Brush, New York, NY, Curated by 21c Chief Curator and Museum Director, Alice Gray Stites
2018
“My Monster” Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
“The Visual Thread ” Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA
“Audubon Then and Now”, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
2017
“Chimeras”, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
“Hybridity: The Supernatural” 21c Museum, Lexington exhibition
2016
“Dead Animals or The Curious Occurrence of Taxidermy in Contemporary Art”, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University
“Something I Can Feel”, Volta NY, Curated by Derrick Adams
2015
“Hybridity: The New Frontier” 21c Museum, Cincinnati and Louisville exhibitions
“Post Human Utopia”, The Lodge Gallery, NY
“Working Women: 36 Contemporary Women Artists”, Sawyer Fine Art Center, Colby-Sawyer College
2014
“Kate Clark, Quentin Garel, AJ Fosik” Galerie LJ, Paris
“Late Harvest ” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (commissioned sculpture)
“Contemporary Invitational at PAAM – Our Centennial Year”, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
“In Sheep’s Clothing – Animals as Symbols in Contemporary Art”, curated by Dexter Wimberly, Gallery 220, Brooklyn, NY
“Faux Sho’ ” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2013
“HEY! modern art & pop culture / Part II”, Halle Saint Pierre Museum, Paris, France
“Body as Landscape”, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
“KIN” Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
“THEY ARE US: Animal Identity and the Anthropomorphic Urge”, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
“Miami Project ” Art Fair booth in Miami, FL with Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, NY
“Die Wunderkammer” , The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
“Animatopoeia: A Most Peculiar (Post Modern) Bestiary” The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University
“Speakers”, 111 Front Street Galleries, Brooklyn, NY
2012
“Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination,” Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
traveling to:
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, 2012
Glenbow Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2013
“The Sum Of Their Parts” SICA, Asbury Park, NJ
2011
“No Object is an Island,” Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
“Cute & Creepy,” Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
“In Rare Form,” Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2009
“Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling,” Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
“UberPortrait,” Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
“Art Miami,” Claire Oliver Gallery
“NEXT Chicago,” Claire Oliver Gallery
2008
“I Dream of Genomes,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
“New, Next, Now,” Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2007
“Posing,” Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
“MetaMajesty,” Chashama, New York, NY
“SCOPE Miami,” 33 Bond Gallery
“Our Dark Heroes,” Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
“Why Look at Animals?” Artspace, New Haven, CT
“Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Exhibit,” Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
“Art 364B: The Collective,” Kimmel Center Windows, New York University, New York, NY
“SCOPE Hamptons,” Jack the Pelican Presents
2006
“MAD COW: Absurdity and Anxiety in Contemporary Culture,” NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Allergy,” Gallery Velvet, Seoul, Korea
“Fellows and Jurors,” Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“SCOPE New York,” Jack the Pelican Presents
2005
“Project Diversity,” Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
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2023
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2022
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2021
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2007
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2005
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2002
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Photo credit: Frank Marshal