Crowd Pleaser

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