BORN: Hartford, CT 1962
EDUCATION:
1994M.F.A., Hunter College, Graduate School of Art, New York
1984B.F.A., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009"New Paintings", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2006Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
2004"Burns and Pours", Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, New York,NY
2003"New Paintings", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, NY
2001Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, NY
1999Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, NY
1995Thread Waxing Space, Project Room, New York, NY
1994Saint Peter's Church, Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016"IN CONVERSATION", Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, curated by Stephanie Buhmann,
with works by Polly Apfelbaum, Hermine Ford, Tara Geer, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Laura J. Gerlach,
Joyce Kozloff, Kathleen Kucka, Luisa Rabbia, Jennifer Riley, Lisa Ruyter, Kiki Smith, Leslie Wayne
2008Group Exhibition, Gallerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Material Color, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Summer Collection 2008, Gallerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007Group Show, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
2006"New Year New Work", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
"Surface", Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
2005"Head Over Hand: Pushing the Limits of Paint", Denise Bibro, Fine Art, New York, NY
"NY Loves LV", Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2004Mindscape, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Hard and Soft, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington , DC
"Mindscape", Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2003"Young + Brash + Abstract", curated by John Yau, Anderson Gallery, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
"Prima Facie: New Abstract Painting", Angeles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Bold", Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York, NY
"Pour Pierce Pounce", Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2002"Abstraction: An Invitational Exhibition: Cheonae Kim, Kathleen Kucka and Sheila Rotner",
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2001That Which Remains", curated by Mo Eich, Bernadette Salvage Fine Art,
Brooklyn, NY
"Burn: Artists Play with Fire", The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
"Pierogi 2000 Traveling Flat Files", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco,
CA; Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Block Art Space, Kansas City,MO
2000Group Show", Jeffrey Coploff Fine Arts, LTD., New York, NY
"Fluid Flow", James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
"Eye Candy: Contemporary West and East Coast Women Painters", California
State University, San Bernardino/ The Visual Arts Center, Fullerton, cA
199924/7 The Inaugural Exhibition of The Nantista Discoveries Series, Guild Hall
Museum, East Hampton, NY
1998Two Person Show", Nylon Gallery, London, England
"34th Annual Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Galelry, The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, NC
"Fabrications: Art, Fashion, Style", TIAA/CREF, New York, Ny ( organized by
ViArt Corporation )
"Focus on Materials", Staller Center for the Arts, University Art Gallery, Sate
University of New York at Stony Brook, NY
"Paper", Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, NY
1997Text and Touch", curated by Kristen Frederickson, Hunter College, Voorhess
Gallery, New York, NY
"Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn", The Brooklyn Museum, NY
"New York Drawers" The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles", Gasworks, London, UK
1996Limbo", Ah! Space Gallery, New York, NY
"Repeat", The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, NY
"Painting and Works on Paper", The Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union, New York
juried by Stephen Haller, Lisa Lawley and Richard Vine
1988-94"Modulating the Exhibition: Free Falling", Berlin Shaffir Gallery, New York, NY
"Passion", Peconic Gallery, Riverhead, New York, juror: Ann Philbin
"Mark as Metaphor", PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
"States of the Art: National Juried Show of Women Artists", A.I.R. Gallery, New
York, NY
"Burning in Hell", The Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, curated by Nancy Spero
"Selections Show", 1998, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Genocchio, Benjamin "Looking Into the World of Genomes and Seeing an Unreliable Future", New York Times, March 2, 2008
Liberman, Rachael "Kathleen Kucka's Multi-Dimensional Impressions", Gay City News, October 2006
Mendehlsohn, Meredith "Kathleen Kucka Burns and Pours", ArtNews, December 2004
Jacobson, Lewis "Concentrics," Washington City Paper, Washington, DC, June 2004
Knight, Christopher "Surface and Color in Abstract Group Show," Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2002
Dawson, Jessica, "Three Artists of Different Stripes", The Washington Post, 1/21/03
Schudel, Matt, "Fire Works", The Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 2001
Korotkin, Joyce, "Kathleen Kucka", The New York Art World.com, April, 2001
Schmerler, Sarah, "Fluid Flow", Time Out: New York, July 27 - August 3, 2000
Knaff, Devorah, "Eye Candy" by Women Reveals Beauty Beyond Good Looks", The Press Enterprise, Los Angeles, CA, April 19, 2000
Johnson, Ken, "Kathleen Kucka", The New York Times, March 19, 1999
Scott, Sue, "Kathleen Kucka", Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, March 15, 1999
Braff, Phyllis, "On the Edge", The New York Times, May 31, 1998
Daigle, Claire, "Text and Touch", Art Papers-New York, March/April, 1998
Long, Robert, "Perspectives: A Style Shift", The Southhampton Press, May 18, 1995
Harrison, Helen A. "Depicting Passion, in its many Guises and Garbs,", The New York Times, March 20, 1994
PUBLICATIONS:
2003catalogue on the artist, essay by John Yau
2002Young + Brash + Abstract, introduction and curated by John Yau
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Arts, Richmond, VA, catalogue
2001Burn: Artists Play with Fire, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm
Beach, FL, catalogue
1999OK This is so, Pierogi Press, New York, NY, Volume 3/Spring 1999
1999Twenty Four Seven: The Inaugural Exhibition of Nantista Discoveries Series,
Guild Hall of East Hampton, 1999
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
2008Vermont Studio Center
1995The Nancy Ashton Memorial Fund Award, Hunter College, New York
1991The Alternative Worksite, Bemis Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska, Artist residence
1991Change Grant
COLLECTIONS:
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Birmingham Museum of Art
The Franklin Furnace Archives, New York, NY
The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro,NC