Born 1984, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2007 BFA / The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
2018 MFA / Painting and Printmaking, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Vase Water, September 14 - October 26, LOMEX, New York, NY
2023
Emails, And Now Dallas, TX
Country Air, LOMEX, New York, NY
2022
Fabrice, And Now, Dallas, TX
Oubliette: Kathryn Kerr and Aaron Van Dyke, Papa Projects, St. Paul, MN: February 6 - March 6
2021
Mosquito Valley, Essex Flowers, New York, NY: June 5 - July 4
2019
Fruit Bearing Trees: Kathryn Kerr and Justine Melford-Colegate, The Boom Boom Room, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Studio Clear-Out, Rear Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Paradise Island, OLD MAN, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
AND NOW at LOMEX: Krissy Bodge, Khutso Edgar, David Flaugher, Phillip Gabriel, Mia Goldstein, Ben Horns, Kathryn Kerr, Leslie Martinez, Eli Ping, Michelle Rawlings and Coco Young; September 14 - October 26, LOMEX, NY
Antonia Kuo, Kathryn Kerr, and Leslie Martinez: Phosphor; 15 May 2024 — 29 June 2024, Project Native Informant, London
Butterflies: Colleen Billing, Peter Hujar, R. Jamin, Matt Keegan, Kathryn Kerr, Dominique Knowles, Latefa Noorzai, Lucas Odahara, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez; March 14—April 20, 2024, David Peter Francis, New York, NY
Drop Scene: Jin Han Lee, Kathryn Kerr, Jacob Littlejohn, Yu Nishimura, & So Young Park, Curated by Augusto Arbizo, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2023
Ben Horns, Kathryn Kerr, and Leslie Martinez, And Now, Dallas, TX
2022
AND NOW at Night, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Genesis Baez, Felipe Baeza, Dannielle Bowman, Jonathan Chacon, Justine Melford-Colegate, Kathryn Kerr, And Now, Dallas, TX: Feb. 27 - April 3, 2021
2019
Familiars, At Peace, Brooklyn, NY
The Burn Show, Safe Gallery at Folly Tree Arboretum, East Hampton, NY
The Big T-Shirt Show, Ex Ovo, Dallas, Texas
The Picture is a Forest, Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
Nesting Habits, ltd los angeles @ VACATION, New York, NY
2018
Tails, Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY
Snarl of Twine, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Way Out Now: Yale School of Art in LA, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wild Seed: Yale School of Art Painting and Printmaking Thesis Show, New Haven, CT
2017
Feast: Yale School of Art Second Year Show, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2016
MFA 2018, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Good Life, The Range, Saguache, CO
Fathoms, Radical Abacus, Sante Fe, NM
Presenting, In Limbo, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Initial Conditions: Artists Make Spaces, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
CCCC: Ceramics Club Cash and Carry, White Columns, New York, NY
2013
Group Show, OLD MAN, New York, NY
Group Show, Ray Smith Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Rob Pruitt: Wildlife, Karma, Amagansett, NY
Ray Smith Studio, Parade Ground, New York
2012
The Fall of 2012, The Bruce High Quality Foundation University, New York, NY
2011
Piñata + Hassla, Los Angeles, CA
One Night Only, curated by Leigh Ruple, Vaudeville Park, January 22, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Live/Work, curated by Caitlin Macqueen and Elizabeth Marshall, LaMama Galleria, New York, NY
Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, New York, NY
2009
Breaking into the Human Race, Great Hall Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Smithumenta, Ray Smith Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Bushwick Arts Festival Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Brevity's Rainbow, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Cats on Broadway: Bed-Stuy Do or Die, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Trick Shot: Rebecca Watson Horn and Kathryn Kerr, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2006
We Are Now Simultaneous, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2005
A Gentle Stream Winding Its Way Thru the Woods, The Great Hall Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Group sculpture show at Tom Burr's Residence Project, New York, NY
AWARDS AND HONORS
Dedalus Fellow Nominee, December 2017
Richard Welling Scholarship, Yale School of Art 2016
Michael S. Vivo Memorial Prize for excellence in drawing established in 1984 by friends, family, and associates, Cooper Union 2007
Sylvia Appelman Award for outstanding third-year painting student, Cooper Union 2006
Shakespeare and Co. Scholarship, Cooper Union 2004
RESIDENCIES
2024
Worth Artist Residency: Bovina, NY
2020
Queens Council on the Arts SU-CASA Artist Residency: Queens, NY
2019
Palazzo Stabile, Castelletto Molina, Italy
Tilleard Projects Residency, Lamu, Kenya
2016
The Shandaken Project at Storm King, New Windsor, NY
Visiting artist at The Range, Saguache, CO
ARTIST BOOKS
Humours. New York: Hassla, 2011
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Sandstrom, Emily. “Cows and Butterflies at the Opening of David Peter Francis in Chinatown.” Interview Magazine, March 20, 2024, https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/cows-and-butterflies-at-the-opening-of-david-peter-francis-in-chinatown
2021
Lima, Benjamin. “And Now gallery features a talented crop of young artists.” The Dallas Morning News, 22 March 2021, https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2021/03/22/and-now-gallery-features-a-talented-crop-of-young-artists/.
2010
Hyperallergic.com, The Brucennial: Piece By Piece.
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
Fall 2022 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Spring 2022 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Winter 2020 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Spring 2019 Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria