Kate Russo
Lives: Portland, ME, USA and London, U.K.
Website: www.katerusso.com
EDUCATION
2005-2007 M.F.A. Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2000-2004 B.A. Colby College. Waterville, ME, USA
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017 Storyteller, SARAH BOUCHARD GALLERY, Woolwich, ME .
2017 Stitched Works, Postalco Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
2014 Settings, FOLEY Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Abstract Personalities, Aucocisco Galleries, Portland, ME
2013 Nervous Energy, Kate Russo and Tom Butler, The 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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 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
2018 Reverence to the Thread, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
2017 People Watching: Then and Now, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2017 Install 12, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME
2017 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
2016 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
2015 Creekside Open 2015 selected by Richard Deacon, APT Gallery, London
2015 Creekside Open 2015 selected by Lisa Milroy, APT Gallery, London
2014 NN Open Biennial, NN Contemporary, Northampton, U.K.
2013 Emerging Artists, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2013 Sublime Monotony, Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, ME
2012 Zeitgeist (ZAP) Open, London, UK
2012 Maine Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport Maine
2012 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
2010 Ludlow Summer Show, Ludlow, UK
2010 Things Have Changed, Birdwood House Gallery, Totnes, UK
2010 Kate Russo and Tom Butler, The Flavel Art Centre, Dartmouth UK
2009 10 Artists, The Old Schoolhouse, Ludlow, UK
2009 Open Drawing Competition, The Plough, Great Torrington, UK
2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize, London and touring exhibition through 2010
2009 Drawn In, Sidcot Arts Centre, Winscombe, Somerset, UK
2008 Wrapped and Encased at Liverpool 08, The Artist’s Book Fair, Liverpool.
2008 “I Know the Crayon I Hold in My Hand is Blue” Tricycle Gallery,
London.
2007. M.F.A. Final Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art
2006 Scene One: In the Offing, Sassoon Gallery, London
2006 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
AWARDS
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
PUBLICATIONS
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
2012 “CMCA Biennial Exhibition 2012”, Suzanne Volmer, Artscope, Fall 2012, 46-47
2012 “Sorting Through the CMCA’s Biennial”, Nicholas Schroeder, The Portland Phoenix, 10/10/12
2012 “Divergent Vision, Complimentary Skills for Rockland Artist Couple”, Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News, 10/13/12
2012 Interventions, accompanying artwork with stories by Richard Russo
2012 “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
BLOGS AND ONLINE FEATURES
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 Big, Red and Shiny, http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?article=2012-11-01-105839130400820893
2012 Artist Registry, The Drawing Center Viewing Program.
2012 Two Serious Ladies, www.twoseriousladies.org/drawings-by-kate-russo/
2012 Jealous Curator, http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2012/10/04/im-jealous-of-kate-russo/
2012 Juxtapoz, http://www.juxtapoz.com/kate-russo
2012 Booooooom, http://www.booooooom.com/2012/09/24/drawings-by-artist-kate-russo/
2012 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/
LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, AND GUEST CRITIQUES
2017 Artist Talk, Maine College of Art - Class on Abstract Portraiture
2017 Artist Talk, Fitchburg Museum of Art
2017 Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Painting II Course
2017 Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Senior Visual Arts Majors Critiques
2016 Guest Critic, Bowdoin College - Abstract Art Course
2016 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
2010/11 Workshop on Color, The Community School, Camden, ME
2003 John Marin and the Steiglitz Circle, Colby College Museum of Art