Kate Clark is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her interspecies sculptures present the viewer with hybrids that transcend human limitations by expanding the boundaries of identity, gender, and origin. Her work has been exhibited over the past 15 years across the US, France, England, Korea and Australia.
Kate had her first solo gallery exhibit at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York in 2008, and is currently represented by Anima Mundi gallery in England. She has had solo museum shows at the Mobile Museum of Art, the Newcomb Art Museum and the Hilliard Museum and has been in group museum exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Islip Art Museum, and the Bellevue Arts Museum, MOFA: Florida State University, Cranbrook Art Museum, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Winnepeg Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum, the Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Biggs Museum of American Art, the Southampton Arts Center, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and others.
Her work is collected internationally and is in public collections such as the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, the 21c Collection, the Roberts Institute of Art in London, the Cranbrook Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, and the C-Collection in Switzerland. Kate attended Cornell University for her BFA and Cranbrook Academy of Art for her MFA and has been awarded fellowships from the Jentel Artists Residency in Wyoming, the Fine Arts Work Center Residency in Provincetown, MA., and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program in New York. Kate was nominated for a USA Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award. Clark was awarded a grant from The Virginia Groot Foundation in 2013 and a New York Foundation For the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship Award in 2014.
Kate’s sculptures have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Magazine, Art21:Blog, The Village Voice, PAPERmag, The Atlantic, Hyperallergic, NYArts, Huffington Post, Hi Fructose, the BBC World News Brazil, Hey! Magazine, Time Out, ID Paris, Cool Hunting, Wallpaper, Creators Project/VICE, Sculpture Review and many other publications. Kate’s work is the cover image for Art ltd. magazine, November/December 2014. She is also included in many book publications and was filmed by National Geographic in her studio over a 2 month period for a short documentary about her work.
