CV
Born: 1982 in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Lives: Portland, Maine and London, UK
2005-2007 M.F.A. Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2000-2004 B.A. Colby College. Waterville, ME, USA
2023 Storyteller (forthcoming), Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME
2017 Stitched Works, Postalco Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
2014 Settings, FOLEY Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract Personalities, Aucocisco Galleries, Portland, ME
2013 Nervous Energy, Kate Russo and Tom Butler, Engine, Biddeford, ME
2011 Palimpsest: Kate Russo Paintings, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2010 The Employees, Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter UK
2007 On the Revelation of Bricks, Sassoon Gallery, London
2022
You Take the Cake, Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME
A Gathering of Aces, Sarah Bouchard Gallery, Woolwich, ME
2019 -2020
Temporality: The Process of Time, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
2019
Perfection, Able Baker, Portland, ME
2018
2019 Flatfile Artists, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, NYC
Reverence to the Thread, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
2017
People Watching: Then and Now, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Install 12, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
Referent: John Franklin, Matthew King, Andrew Mowbray and Kate Russo, Room83Spring, Watertown, MA
2016
Maine Biennial, Curated by John Yau and Christine Berry, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
Currents: “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Curated by Anthony Elms, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Delicate Creatures, FOLEY Gallery, New York, NY
Creekside Open 2015, selected by Richard Deacon, APT Gallery, London
Creekside Open 2015, selected by Lisa Milroy, APT Gallery, London
2013/2014
NN Open Biennial, NN Contemporary, Northampton, U.K.
2013
Emerging Artists, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Sublime Monotony, Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, ME
2012
Zeitgeist (ZAP) Open, London, UK
Maine Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport Maine
DÉCOR, University of Maine, Farmington, Art Gallery
2011
Art to Collect Now, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2010
Gallery Artists: Small Works, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland ME
Ludlow Summer Show, Ludlow, UK
Things Have Changed, Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes, UK
Kate Russo and Tom Butler, The Flavel Art Centre, Dartmouth UK
2009
10 Artists, The Old Schoolhouse, Ludlow, UK
Open Drawing Competition, The Plough, Great Torrington, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize, London and touring exhibition through 2010 Drawn In, Sidcot Arts Centre, Winscombe, Somerset, UK
2008
Wrapped and Encased at Liverpool 08, The Artist’s Book Fair, Liverpool, UK
“I Know the Crayon I Hold in My Hand is Blue” Tricycle Gallery, London, UK
2007
M.F.A. Final Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art
2006
Scene One: In the Offing, Sassoon Gallery, London
Nationwide Mercury Prize Student Art Exhibition, Hospital Gallery, London
2005
Open Studios, Slade Painters, Great Western Studios, London
2004
Senior Show (B.A. Exhibition), Colby College Museum of Art, USA
2009 Shortlist, Jerwood Drawing Prize, UK
2007 Henry Tonks Prize for drawing, Slade School of Fine Art, UK
2007 Shortlist, Celeste Art Prize, UK
2006 Shortlist, Celeste Art Prize, UK
2006 Finalist (Highly Commended), Nationwide Mercury Prize Student Art Competition, UK
2004 Senior Art Show Purchase Prize, Colby College, USA
2021
”Side by Side: The Art and Writing of Kate Russo,” Nancy Gordon, Creative Maine, September 2021 (online)
2019
“Skillfully Curated: Able Baker Exhibition Explores Perfection”, Daniel Kany, The Portland Press Herald, 02/17/19
2018
Featured Visual Artist, The Maine Review, Fall 2018
2016
“The Biennial at Center for Maine Contemporary Art deliciously flawed and fresh”, Daniel Kany, The Portland Press Herald, 11/13/16
2014
“Seasonally Affective: Two young painters exhibit devotion to form”, Nicholas Schroeder, The Portland Phoenix, 03/28/14
2012
“Biennial Backs Up Good Look with Visceral Subtext”, Daniel Kany, The Portland Press Herald, 10/21/12
“CMCA Biennial Exhibition 2012”, Suzanne Volmer, Artscope, Fall 2012, 46-47
“Sorting Through the CMCA’s Biennial”, Nicholas Schroeder, The Portland Phoenix, 10/10/12
“Divergent Vision, Complimentary Skills for Rockland Artist Couple”, Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News, 10/13/12
Interventions, accompanying artwork with stories by Richard Russo
“Mixed Use,” The Canvas, Maine Home and Design, May 2012
2011
Current Work, The Art Issue, Maine Home and Design, April 2011
2005
Nationwide Mercury Prize 2006 Album of the Year, Album Sleeve
2018
Young Space, Artist Interview, https://yngspc.com/artists/2018/08/kate-russo/
2014
Dirty Laundry, “Horror Vacui” by Kate Russo, http://dirtylaundrymag.com/articles/kate-russo/
2013
Buy Some Damn Art, “Sitting Still” Online Exhibition. www.buysomedamnart.com
2012-present
Artist Registry, The Drawing Center Viewing Program.
2012
Big, Red and Shiny, http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?article=2012-11-01-105839130400820893
Two Serious Ladies, www.twoseriousladies.org/drawings-by-kate-russo/
Jealous Curator, http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2012/10/04/im-jealous-of-kate-russo/
Juxtapoz, http://www.juxtapoz.com/kate-russo
Booooooom, http://www.booooooom.com/2012/09/24/drawings-by-artist-kate-russo/
Art Hound, http://arthound.com/2012/08/artist-crush-kate-russo/
2009
Amelia’s Magazine, http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/art/jerwood-drawing-prize-2009-last-chance-to-see-drawings-finest/2009/10/21/
2020
Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Drawing II
2019
Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Senior Visual Arts Majors Critiques
2018
Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Senior Visual Arts Majors Critiques
2017
Artist Talk, Maine College of Art - Class on Abstract Portraiture
Artist Talk, Fitchburg Museum of Art
Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Painting II Course
Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Senior Visual Arts Majors Critiques
2016
Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Abstract Art Course
Biennial Artist Talk “Who Do You Love?” CMCA, Rockport, ME
2012
Biennial Artist Talk “Who Do You Love?” CMCA, Rockport, ME
2010/11
Workshop on Pattern, The Community School, Camden, ME
Workshop on Color, The Community School, Camden, ME
2003
John Marin and the Steiglitz Circle, Colby College Museum of Art