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KATHRYN CLARK
email: kathryn@kathrynclark.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Homage to Democracy, Neon Raspberry, Occidental, CA
2018 Refugee Stories, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2017 Kathryn Clark: Refugee Stories, solo exhibition, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Kathryn Clark: Refugee Stories, solo exhibition, Hello Stitch Studio, Berkeley, CA
2014 Kathryn Clark: Foreclosure Quilts, solo exhibition, Stripe, Santa Cruz, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Radical Traditions: American Quilts and Social Change, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2020 De Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2020 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO
2020 The Contemporary Art of Quilting, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2020 Currents 2020, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2020 Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2020 By a Thread, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC
2019 Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2019 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
2019 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Chazen Museum of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
2018 Making Change: The Art and Craft of Activism, Museum of Design/Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2018 The Bounded Text, Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, AK
2018 Landscapes, Crafted, Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA
2018 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
2018 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Society for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA,
2018 Marx@200, SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Marx@200: Selections, Verso Books, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2017 The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2017 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Society for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 Storyline, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2017 New Threads: Unraveling Traditions in Fiber, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA
2017 Permanent Collection, Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington, DC
2017 Threads, Hemphill Fine Arts at Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
2016 Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2016 In Remembrance: People, Time and Places, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Lucy Childs.
2016 Weave Wars, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2015 Good Mail Day, Artstream Gallery, Dover, NH
2015 Dead of Winter, Rare Device, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Tiffanie Turner
2014 Quilts: Pushing at the Seams, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
2014 Fail-Safe: Discomforts at Home, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR. Curated by Marci Rae McDade
2014 City Grid/Urban Pattern, Smink Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2014 Fail-Safe: Discomforts at Home, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2013 SPRAWL, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2013 3 Figure$, performance by Emily Zimmer, Naked Stages, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Material Witness, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
2013 Unbound: Artists and Quilters Redefine the Quilt, Hollister Gallery at Babson College, Babson Park, MA
2013 Kala Art Institute Group Exhibit, Marion & Rose’s Workshop, Oakland, CA
2013 Foreclosure Quilts, Gallery Nord, San Antonio, TX
2013 Out of the Blue, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. Curated by Ruth Braunstein
2012 Selections by Naomi Beckwith, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Naomi Beckwith of Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2012 Retooled/Repackaged, Marygrove College Gallery, Detroit, MI
2012 Work It: Artists Address Labor & Unemployment, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2012 Disintegration and Repair, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2012 Idiom Series, Kala Art Institute Print Archive, Berkeley, CA
2011 Cashing Out, Kala Arts Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Julio Cesar Morales
2011 Artfully Reclaimed V, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA. Curated by Jack Fischer of Jack Fischer Gallery
2011 FLOW: The Essence of Paint, The ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Andre Rozanoff of Cain Schulte Gallery
2011 Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. Curated by Rene de Guzman
EDUCATION
1994-1997 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1991-1994 University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington DC
International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, NE
American Civil Liberties Union, Detroit, MI
Michigan State University Museum, Lansing, MI
Ann Taylor, Inc., New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 New American Paintings, Book #145, Christine Y Kim, Pacific Coast Edition, December 2019/January 2020.
Kelly, Anne. Textile Travels, Batsford.
“The art of Kathryn Clark”, Ruminate, Issue 55, Cover and pages 56-64.
Gannon, Suzanne, “Speaking Out” Sonoma Magazine, January/February 2020, pages 113-121
2019 Kalloch, Liz. Tools & Talismans.
2018 Susan Iverson, “The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art” Surface Design Journal, Summer 2018, pages 62-64.
Ben Ogrodnik, “Marx@200 exhibition review” Afterimage, Issue 45, pages 26-28.
Rebecca Addison, “SPACE’s Marx@200 explores the German philosopher and what we can learn from his theories”, Pittsburgh City Paper, April 2018.
Tony Norman, “Artists of the world unite at Marx@200 exhibit downtown” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 2018.
2017 M. Thomas, “Contemporary Craft addresses housing insecurity in ‘Shelter’”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 2017. Sandi Hazlewood, “Designer Profile: Kathryn Clark” Love Patchwork & Quilting, Issue 51, pages 48-51.
“Q & A: Conceptualizing Untold Stories” Planning Magazine, June 2017, page 12.
2016 Barry, Ramona and Jobson, Rebecca. The Handmade Life: A Companion to Modern Crafting, Thames & Hudson.
Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson. Forward by Desmond Tutu. Quilts and Human Rights, University of Nebraska Press.
2015 Atkinson, Nora. Craft for a Modern World: The Renwick Gallery Collection, GILES.
Ranallo, Andrew. “Reconstruction”, American Craft Magazine, August/September 2015, One Piece, page 104.
2014 Cooks, Bridget R., “The Gee’s Bend Effect,” Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2014, pages 346-363.
Rudman, Dawne & Bate, Gareth, “Artist: Kathryn Clark of San Francisco, California, USA,” World of Threads Weekly Fibre Artist Interviews, Interview 102, (link)
Karr-Petras, Mary Kate, “Bent but Not Broken: Quilting in the Great Recession,” Quilters Newsletter, December/January 2014, pages 32-36.
2013 Gottesdiener, Laura. A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home, Zuccotti Park Press, pages 16, 44, 110 and 160.
Goodman, Amy, Democracy Now!, Interview with Laura Gottesdiener, PBS, August 6, 2013, (link)
Zale, Sarah. Sometimes You Do Things: Poems, Aquarius Press 2013, Cover.
“1110/5 Journal,” MIEL Publications, April 2013, four postcards within a set.
Craig, Gabriel. “Kathryn Clark’s Foreclosure Quilts.” Surface Design Journal, Winter 2013, pages 26-29.
2012 “Quilting the Odd and Unusual: Breathing Life into Language,” Art Quilting Studio Magazine, Stampington & Company, summer 2012, page 64.
Clark, Kathryn, “Foreclosure Quilts,” Uppercase Magazine, Issue 12, January 2012, page 97.
New American Paintings, No. 97 Pacific Coast Issue, January 2012, pages 48-51.
DeWeerdt, Sarah. “How Quilting Can Explain the Foreclosure Crisis,” CityLab from The Atlantic, March 2012. (link)
Solomon, Lisa. “In the Studio: Kathryn Clark,” Poppytalk, February 2012. (link)
Caldwell, Ellen. “Mapping our Foreclosures One Quilt at a Time: Kathryn Clark,” NewAmericanPaintings, February 2012, (link)
Bond, K. Emily. “How to Make an American Foreclosure Quilt,” Ecosalon, January 2012, (link)
Tzenkova, Ani. “Kathryn Clark’s Foreclosure Quilts,” Trendland, January 2012. (link)
2011 Hand, Justine. “Fabrics and Linens: Foreclosure Quilts by Kathryn Clark,” Remodelista, December 2011. (link)
Clark, Kathryn. “Foreclosure Quilts.” HAND/EYE Magazine, June 2011. (link)
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2021 Improvisational Embroidery Workshop, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN.
2019 Improvisational Embroidery Workshop, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA.
2018 Guest Lecturer, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
2017 Embroidery Workshop, Hello Stitch Studio, Berkeley, CA.
2017 Guest Lecturer, Stitch Modern, Piedmont, CA.
2017 Guest Lecturer, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016 Guest Lecturer and workshop presenter, Stitch Modern, Piedmont, CA.
2014 Guest Lecturer, Surface Design Association.
2011-2013 Contributing writer to Handful of Salt magazine.
1999-2003 Project Manager/Urban Planner, Calthorpe Associates, Berkeley, CA.
1997-1999 Architect/Urban Planner, MacCracken Architects, San Francisco, CA.
KATHRYN CLARK
email: kathryn@kathrynclark.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Homage to Democracy, Neon Raspberry, Occidental, CA
2018 Refugee Stories, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2017 Kathryn Clark: Refugee Stories, solo exhibition, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Kathryn Clark: Refugee Stories, solo exhibition, Hello Stitch Studio, Berkeley, CA
2014 Kathryn Clark: Foreclosure Quilts, solo exhibition, Stripe, Santa Cruz, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Radical Traditions: American Quilts and Social Change, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2020 De Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2020 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO
2020 The Contemporary Art of Quilting, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2020 Currents 2020, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2020 Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2020 By a Thread, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC
2019 Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2019 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
2019 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Chazen Museum of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
2018 Making Change: The Art and Craft of Activism, Museum of Design/Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2018 The Bounded Text, Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, AK
2018 Landscapes, Crafted, Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA
2018 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
2018 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Society for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA,
2018 Marx@200, SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Marx@200: Selections, Verso Books, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2017 The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2017 Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Society for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 Storyline, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2017 New Threads: Unraveling Traditions in Fiber, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA
2017 Permanent Collection, Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington, DC
2017 Threads, Hemphill Fine Arts at Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
2016 Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2016 In Remembrance: People, Time and Places, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Lucy Childs.
2016 Weave Wars, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2015 Good Mail Day, Artstream Gallery, Dover, NH
2015 Dead of Winter, Rare Device, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Tiffanie Turner
2014 Quilts: Pushing at the Seams, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
2014 Fail-Safe: Discomforts at Home, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR. Curated by Marci Rae McDade
2014 City Grid/Urban Pattern, Smink Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2014 Fail-Safe: Discomforts at Home, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2013 SPRAWL, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2013 3 Figure$, performance by Emily Zimmer, Naked Stages, Minneapolis, MN
2013 Material Witness, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
2013 Unbound: Artists and Quilters Redefine the Quilt, Hollister Gallery at Babson College, Babson Park, MA
2013 Kala Art Institute Group Exhibit, Marion & Rose’s Workshop, Oakland, CA
2013 Foreclosure Quilts, Gallery Nord, San Antonio, TX
2013 Out of the Blue, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. Curated by Ruth Braunstein
2012 Selections by Naomi Beckwith, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Naomi Beckwith of Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2012 Retooled/Repackaged, Marygrove College Gallery, Detroit, MI
2012 Work It: Artists Address Labor & Unemployment, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2012 Disintegration and Repair, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2012 Idiom Series, Kala Art Institute Print Archive, Berkeley, CA
2011 Cashing Out, Kala Arts Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Julio Cesar Morales
2011 Artfully Reclaimed V, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA. Curated by Jack Fischer of Jack Fischer Gallery
2011 FLOW: The Essence of Paint, The ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Andre Rozanoff of Cain Schulte Gallery
2011 Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. Curated by Rene de Guzman
EDUCATION
1994-1997 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1991-1994 University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington DC
International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, NE
American Civil Liberties Union, Detroit, MI
Michigan State University Museum, Lansing, MI
Ann Taylor, Inc., New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 New American Paintings, Book #145, Christine Y Kim, Pacific Coast Edition, December 2019/January 2020.
Kelly, Anne. Textile Travels, Batsford.
“The art of Kathryn Clark”, Ruminate, Issue 55, Cover and pages 56-64.
Gannon, Suzanne, “Speaking Out” Sonoma Magazine, January/February 2020, pages 113-121
2019 Kalloch, Liz. Tools & Talismans.
2018 Susan Iverson, “The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art” Surface Design Journal, Summer 2018, pages 62-64.
Ben Ogrodnik, “Marx@200 exhibition review” Afterimage, Issue 45, pages 26-28.
Rebecca Addison, “SPACE’s Marx@200 explores the German philosopher and what we can learn from his theories”, Pittsburgh City Paper, April 2018.
Tony Norman, “Artists of the world unite at Marx@200 exhibit downtown” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 2018.
2017 M. Thomas, “Contemporary Craft addresses housing insecurity in ‘Shelter’”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 2017. Sandi Hazlewood, “Designer Profile: Kathryn Clark” Love Patchwork & Quilting, Issue 51, pages 48-51.
“Q & A: Conceptualizing Untold Stories” Planning Magazine, June 2017, page 12.
2016 Barry, Ramona and Jobson, Rebecca. The Handmade Life: A Companion to Modern Crafting, Thames & Hudson.
Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson. Forward by Desmond Tutu. Quilts and Human Rights, University of Nebraska Press.
2015 Atkinson, Nora. Craft for a Modern World: The Renwick Gallery Collection, GILES.
Ranallo, Andrew. “Reconstruction”, American Craft Magazine, August/September 2015, One Piece, page 104.
2014 Cooks, Bridget R., “The Gee’s Bend Effect,” Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2014, pages 346-363.
Rudman, Dawne & Bate, Gareth, “Artist: Kathryn Clark of San Francisco, California, USA,” World of Threads Weekly Fibre Artist Interviews, Interview 102, (link)
Karr-Petras, Mary Kate, “Bent but Not Broken: Quilting in the Great Recession,” Quilters Newsletter, December/January 2014, pages 32-36.
2013 Gottesdiener, Laura. A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home, Zuccotti Park Press, pages 16, 44, 110 and 160.
Goodman, Amy, Democracy Now!, Interview with Laura Gottesdiener, PBS, August 6, 2013, (link)
Zale, Sarah. Sometimes You Do Things: Poems, Aquarius Press 2013, Cover.
“1110/5 Journal,” MIEL Publications, April 2013, four postcards within a set.
Craig, Gabriel. “Kathryn Clark’s Foreclosure Quilts.” Surface Design Journal, Winter 2013, pages 26-29.
2012 “Quilting the Odd and Unusual: Breathing Life into Language,” Art Quilting Studio Magazine, Stampington & Company, summer 2012, page 64.
Clark, Kathryn, “Foreclosure Quilts,” Uppercase Magazine, Issue 12, January 2012, page 97.
New American Paintings, No. 97 Pacific Coast Issue, January 2012, pages 48-51.
DeWeerdt, Sarah. “How Quilting Can Explain the Foreclosure Crisis,” CityLab from The Atlantic, March 2012. (link)
Solomon, Lisa. “In the Studio: Kathryn Clark,” Poppytalk, February 2012. (link)
Caldwell, Ellen. “Mapping our Foreclosures One Quilt at a Time: Kathryn Clark,” NewAmericanPaintings, February 2012, (link)
Bond, K. Emily. “How to Make an American Foreclosure Quilt,” Ecosalon, January 2012, (link)
Tzenkova, Ani. “Kathryn Clark’s Foreclosure Quilts,” Trendland, January 2012. (link)
2011 Hand, Justine. “Fabrics and Linens: Foreclosure Quilts by Kathryn Clark,” Remodelista, December 2011. (link)
Clark, Kathryn. “Foreclosure Quilts.” HAND/EYE Magazine, June 2011. (link)
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2021 Improvisational Embroidery Workshop, Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN.
2019 Improvisational Embroidery Workshop, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA.
2018 Guest Lecturer, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
2017 Embroidery Workshop, Hello Stitch Studio, Berkeley, CA.
2017 Guest Lecturer, Stitch Modern, Piedmont, CA.
2017 Guest Lecturer, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016 Guest Lecturer and workshop presenter, Stitch Modern, Piedmont, CA.
2014 Guest Lecturer, Surface Design Association.
2011-2013 Contributing writer to Handful of Salt magazine.
1999-2003 Project Manager/Urban Planner, Calthorpe Associates, Berkeley, CA.
1997-1999 Architect/Urban Planner, MacCracken Architects, San Francisco, CA.