Katherine Kesey
Katherine Kesey (b. 1996, Lubbock TX) is an oil painter and mixed media artist. Her colorful, gravity-defying works transform objects, places, and moments from her own life into collage-like compositions. Working often with mundane or ubiquitous subject-matter, she manipulates scale, color, text, and other formal elements to explore an inner dialogue obsessed with the significance of simple objects.
Katherine earned her Master of Fine Art from Otis College of Art and Design in 2023. She has held solo exhibitions at Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles CA, and The Courtroom and Dalton Galleries, Rock Hill SC. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions including Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte NC, and Gallery C3, Charlotte NC.
Iris Klein
Girls with Guns, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 18 in
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The Crowd, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 18 in
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The Recipe for Life, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 18 in
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Carrie, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 18 in
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Soft Focus, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 20.25 in
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The Process of Becoming, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 18 in
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Red Head, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 19 in
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Expectation, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
20 × 30 in
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The Forrest for the Trees, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
23.5 × 24 in
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Dolly, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
33 × 24 in
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What More do you Want, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
37.5 × 24 in
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Time Told in Present Tense, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
23.5 × 36 in
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Winter Scene, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
18.75 × 13.5 in
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Daughters of the Revolution, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 13 in
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Sisters of Mercy, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 x 12.5 in
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Mothers as Daughters, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 x 22.25 in
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Nursing War, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
39.75 x 24 in
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Density, 2017
Chalk pastel on archival brown paper
24 × 17.5 in
EDUCATION & RESIDENCIES
2023 - Otis College of Art and Design, MFA Fine Arts
2018 - Clemson University, BS in Graphic Communications & Minor in Art
2018 - The American University of Paris (Summer Program), Art History
2019 - Azule, October Visual Artist in Residence
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 – Los Angeles Sunsets – DIY exhibition, Los Angeles CA
2024 – New & Old Work – DIY exhibition, Los Angeles CA
2023 - Autofiction – The Helen and Abraham Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2021 - SUPERimpose (Two person exhibition) The Dalton Gallery, Arts Council of York County, Rock Hill SC
2020 - Sculpture Moderne – The Courtroom Gallery, Rock Hill SC
2018/19 - The Endless Flow, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library, Clemson SC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Chat MFA: Conscious Maneuvers – Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles CA
2022 - Vessel - Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
2022 - Cybrverse NFT Open Gallery - Cyvatar at SXSW, Austin TX
2022 - The First Turn - Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles CA
2021 - On Life - Gallery c3 at Alchemy, Charlotte NC
2020 - Intersection, Gallery c3 at Alchemy, Charlotte NC
2020 - W.A.M.A. Collaborative Exhibition, Petra’s, Charlotte NC
2020 - PDA, Crown Station, Charlotte NC
2019 - Off-Brand, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte NC
2019 - Intersection, Gallery c3 at Alchemy, Charlotte NC
2019 - Friends of Friday Arts Project Exhibit, Courtroom Gallery, Rock Hill SC2019 - ACYC 30th Annual Juried Exhibition, Center For the Arts, Rock Hill SC
2019 - Spring Juried Show, Charlotte Art League, NC
2019 - ArtFields SC, Lake City SC
2018 - Reconstructing Potential: A Study of Landscape, Nature, and the Built Environment, The Gunnin Architecture Library, Clemson SC
2018 - 16th Annual Juried Exhibition, Grace Centre Gallery, Mills River NC
2018 - Portrayed: Acorn Gallery Exhibit, Acorn Gallery, Clemson SC
2013 - Spring Juried Show, Dalton Gallery at the Center for the Arts, Rock Hill SC
JOURNALISM / WRITING
When Space Becomes Place: Flour Avalanches and Bread Houses – Space on Space Magazine
Something is Happening in Melrose Hill – Art and Cake
Overwhelm and Underwhelm at LA Art Week 2026 – Space on Space Magazine
Post-Fair Offers a Refreshing Take on the Los Angeles Art Fair Scene – Space on Space Magazine
Six Humorous Artworks at Frieze Los Angeles 2024 – Space on Space Magazine
Subterfuge – Flash Fiction, KAIROS Literary Magazine
I Saw it First – Flash Fiction, KAIROS Literary Magazine
The Scythe – Flash Fiction, Bristol Noir
August Birthday – Poetry Collection (Paperback + Kindle)
Voicemails – Autofiction, The Terrible Orange Review
INTERVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS
Meet Katherine Kesey of Los Feliz – Voyage LA
Meet Katherine Kesey | Fine Artist – Shoutout LA
Otis College Thesis Shows Make Art School Look Cool – Hyperallergic
Ordinary Objects, Interview with Space On Space Magazine cake magazine, Love Me
Catching Up with Katherine Kesey – YC Magazine, October 2020
Food & Art Cookbook, Friday Arts Project, 2020
Clemson Chronicle, Spring Editions, 2017 & 18