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Signed and dated on reverse
16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
(Inventory #25895)
“In the studio, I make an effort to execute new ideas before explaining them away, so as not to lose momentum and a personal connection to the process. Afterwards, I try to avoid “storytelling” in the hope and belief that the work can speak for itself. I try to speak about my work honestly, which is hard to do because by the time the work is done, I have forgotten a lot. Essentially, the response of the viewer (friend, dealer, collector) is the last element of “support,” which helps me to understand the effectiveness of my expression and intention.”
Kate Shepherd
Kate Shepherd’s two paintings were each created the same way and yet the small differences between them lay bare the strength of the final actions the artist makes upon the panels. Each piece is painted with numerous colors, then a “resist” is put on the surface, a monochrome layer of blue/grey/black is painted across the entire surface, the “resist” is removed, thus exposing the underlying colors and then thin whitish lines of oil paint are delicately painted across the surface. In “Rain Bow,” the lines create a grid (on the bias) of squares with hatch marks. In “De L’Announce,” the hatch marks are gone and the grid is of parallelograms. Both paintings seemingly reference some sort of chart of the night sky and yet they also are abstract compositions that allow a viewer to see depth, flatness, color and the monochrome all at the same time.
Kate Shepherd was born and raised in New York City. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1990. She has been a resident at Skowhegan, the MacDowell Colony, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Her work appears in numerous international public and private collections.
Born 1961, New York, New York
Lives and works in New York, New York
M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, 1992
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1990
Master’s Certificate, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York, 1986
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, new York, 1982
B.A., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1982
Atelier Lucio Loubet, Paris, France, 1979; 1983; 1987; 1989
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Self Made”, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2017 “Bagels and Locks” 56 Henry, New York, New York
“Battlezone”, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
“Works on Paper, new Monotypes”, Pace Prints, New York, New York
2015 “Kate Shepherd: Lineaments”, Charlotte and
Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
”Chunks”, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
2014 Fwd: The Telephone Game, Galerie Lelong,
New York, New York
Estampes, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2012 Kate Shepherd: Past Tense Conditional, Bartha
Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
Kate Shepherd: News from Biathlon, Anthony
Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
2011 And Debris, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2010 Intersections: Relation to and yet not (homage to Mondrian)
by Kate Shepherd, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
2009 Amiga de un Amigo, Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain
Paper Works, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston,
Texas
Sculpture Painting, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2008 Stack Shack, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton,
New York
Schroeder Practices, Dieu Donné Papermill Inc., New York,
New York
In In The Spring, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco,
California
2007 No Title Here, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Tenniseum, Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France
2006 Wire and Thread, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2005 Puzzles, Cards, and Blocks, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston,
Massachusetts
2004 Blue and Another Color, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco,
California
Wall, Floor, Rocky Crag, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2003 Ce lieu, par exemple, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2002 G Fine Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Radiant Room, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Like Colors, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Light Shard, Spanish Grille, Galerie Lelong, New York,
New York
2000 Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Hebel 121, Basel, Switzerland
Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles,
California
1999 Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, California
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 Site Specific Wall Paintings, GAGA Gallery, New York, New York
1997 Boesky & Callery Fine Arts, New York, New York
1996 Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Project Room, Boesky & Callery Fine Arts, New York, New York
1995 Patrick Callery Fine Art, New York, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Ground Reversal”, Bill Brady Gallery, Miami, Florida
“On Reflection”, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York, Curated by Brdget Donlon
“Kate Shepherd/Daniel Gottin, a collaborative installation”, Hebel_121, Basel, Switzerland
2017 “ONLY Small Paintings”, Fortnight Institute, New York, New York
“Edge” Phillip Stein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2016 “Drawing”, Minus Space, Brooklyn, New York
2015 “Drawing”, Kerry Schuss, New York, New York
“Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné”, The Ruth and Elmer
Wellin Museums of Art, Clinton, New York
“Papier/Paper V, Zeichnung (Drawing), Clement & Schneider, Bern, Germany
“Cornering the Round: Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Robert Ryman and Kate Shepherd,
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“The Good Earth”, Kerry Schuss, New York, New York
“Intersections @5”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
“Oysters with Lemon”, Ventana 244, Brooklyn, New York
“Color Fields”, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
“Pica: Celebrating 20 Years Reflecting On The First Decade”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery,
Portland, Oregon
“Expanded Field. Four New York Painters: James Howell, Winston Roeth, Kate Shepherd,
Joan Waltemath”, Bartha Contemporary Ltd, London, United Kingdom Color Fields, Art and
Design, Boston, MA
2014 Red, Yellow, Blue, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston,
Texas
Celebrating theSpectrum: Highlights from the
Anderson Collection, de Young Museum, San
Francisco, California
Knowing Space, School of Visual Arts, New York
New York
Drawings & Works on Paper, Galerie Lelong, New
York, New York
W U N D E R K A M M E R, Bartha Contemporary
Ltd., London, United Kingdom
Reductive Minimalism, University of Michigan
Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Structured Color, McKenzie Fine Art, New York,
New York
Editions ’14, Lower East Side Printshop, New York,
New York
Real Estate, Ventana 244, Brooklyn, New York
Coloring, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center,
Atlanta, Georgia
2013 Visiting an Imaginary Art Collector, Kleines
Museum-Kultur auf der Peunt, Weissendstadt,
Germany
Ether Scrims, Dark Rooms and Calculative Planes,
Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Learning to See: Josef Albers and the Interactrion of Color,
Scottsdale Museum of Work, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery,
New York, New York
Painting in Place, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles,
California
EDGE, ORDER, RUPTURE, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Lines and Shapes: Geometric Abstraction From the Art Bank
Collection, Art Bank Gallery, Washington, DC
2012 Blues: John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Frank Egloff, Robert
Mangold, Kay Rosen, Kate Shepherd & Suara Welitoff,
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Stretching Painting, Galerie Lelong, New York,
New York
Transparent, Lannan Foundation Gallery, New York,
New York
Limning, Show Room, New York, New York
East West Shift to the Middle Part 2, Bill Brady Gallery,
Kansas City, Missouri
2011 Eye to Eye: Joseph Marioni at the Phillips, The Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C.
No Known None, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston,
Massachusetts
Anni Albers + Kate Shepherd, Barbara Krakow Gallery,
Boston, Massachusetts
Play Pink, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
Why Patterns? Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
2010 Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects and artists
2005-2010, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New
York, New York
Tide Pool, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York
Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum,
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
Held Up By Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York, New York
The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life,
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2009 Evading Customs, Brown Gallery, London, England
Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves, Lora Reynolds Gallery,
Austin, Texas
Blue, James Graham & Sons, New York, New York
Women in Print, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, New York
2008 A Year in Drawing, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2007 Shadow, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Horizon, EFA Gallery, EFA Studio Center, New York, New York
New Editions, Pace Prints, New York, New York
Orthodoxes hétérodoxes: choisir sa ligne, Hôtel de Sponeck,
L’Allan, Scene Nationale de Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France;
Concurrent exhibition at Maison des Arts et des Loisirs,
Sochaux, France
2006 About Light, Galerie Lelong, New York
Espacio Interior / Inner Space, Sala Alcala 31 de la Comunidad
de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Take Off, Hebel_121, Basel, Switzerland
Available (A Still Life Show), Monya Rowe, New York,
New York
Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum and Gallery,
Saratoga Springs, New York
2005 Spectrum, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
Minimalist Art Now, Elvehjem Museum, Madison,
Wisconsin [now the Chazen Museum of Art]
2004 InVisible Silence, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center,
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Art…chitecture, Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 Streifzüge, Galerie Lelong, Zürich, Switzerland
Divergent, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Ballpoint Inkling, KS Art, New York, New York
2002 Clarity of Vision: Minimalist Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee
Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2001 Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art, Tang Teaching Museum
and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs,
New York
2000 Drawing Spaces, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Sculpture by Four, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999 Painting Invitational, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Parallel Lines: Mix and Match, Karen McCready Fine Art,
New York, New York
1998 Time Dilates, Dave Muller’s Three Day Weekend, Tomar
Studios, New York, New York
Food, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, California
Videos by Artists Who Don’t Make Videos, Edinburgh
College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Everyday Sublime, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston,
Massachusetts
Trace, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1997 Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting,
Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford,
Connecticut
Tracery, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, New York
Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York,
New York
1996 Basilico Fine Arts, New York, New York
Anima Mundi, Graham Modern, New York, New York
1995 Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York
Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1994 Organization of Independent Artists, New York, New York
Site Seeing, Bardamu Gallery, New York, New York
AWARDS
2008 Jill Marino Fellowship, Publishing Residency, Lower East Side
Printshop, New York, New York
2005 Lab Grant Program Residency, Dieu Donné Paper Mill,
New York, New York
1999 Lannan Foundation, Artist Residency, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
1998 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1997 Chinati Foundation, Print Studio Residency, Marfa, Texas
1995 Chinati Foundation, Artist Residency, Marfa, Texas
1994 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1993 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1992 Paula Rhodes Award, School of Visual Arts, New York,
New York
MONOGRAPHS
Violet, essay by Colby Chamberlain, 2016
Lineaments, Wake Forest University, 2015
Red Prints, essay by Bill Arning, 2014
Kate Shepherd, New York: Galerie Lelong, 2007
Repères #123, Paris: Galerie Lelong, 2003
Kate Shepherd, Santa Fe: Lannan Foundation, 1999
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Anderson Collection, San Francisco, California
Artothèque d’Amiens, Amiens, France
Artothèque d’Hennebont, Hennebont, France
Axa, Brussels, Belgium
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Citigroup Art Collection, Long Island City, New York
Cleveland Clinic Art Program, Cleveland, Ohio
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, New York
General Dynamics, Falls Church, Virginia
Gruntal & Co., LLC, New York, New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
JP Morgan, New York, New York
Lannan Foundation, Marfa, Texas
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Tenniseum, Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France
Wellington Management, Boston, Massachusetts
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