Bio:
Kathryn Myers was born in Chicago, Illinois and received her BA from Saint Xavier University in Chicago and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has been a professor of painting at the University of Connecticut since 1984 and currently serves on the board of the university's India Studies program.
In 2002 she held a Fulbright Fellowship to India. She has exhibited her work widely in the United States and India as well as lecturing on the topic of American artists who have been influenced by the art and culture of India. She has attended artist residencies in India including the Kanoria Center for Arts in Ahmedabad and Sanskriti Kendra in Delhi. Recently she organized an exhibition titled "Everywhere/Nowhere, The Spiritual temperament in Current American Art for the 2009 International Festival of Sacred Arts in Delhi. Prior curatoral project include "Masala: Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art" at the William Benton Museum of Art, at the University of Connecticut in 2004 and in 2005, "Proximities of Distance" work by Indian artists in the permanent collection of the Benton Museum. |
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| Education |
| 1983 |
MFA, The University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 1980 |
BA Saint Xavier College, Chicago, Illinois |
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| Professional experience |
| 2003 |
Professor of Art, The University of Connecticut |
| 1990 |
Associate Professor of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs |
| 1984 |
Assistant Professor of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs |
| 1983 |
Instructor, The Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio |
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| Selected Exhibitions |
| 2008 |
Junctures & Constellations, Kathryn Myers & Hanuman Kambli, Ruchika Gallery, Panaji Goa, India
Obscure and Common Duties, Furman University, Greensboro SC (solo)
Gouache and only Gouache, Andrea Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 |
Winfisky Gallery, Salem State University, Salem, MA (solo)
Connecticut Contemporary, The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Kathryn Myers & Brian Shure, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI,
From Sun Pictures to Mega Pixels, Williamsburg Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
Cultural Identity, Sophia Press Gallery, Sophia, Bulgaria |
| 2006 |
Åurodhan Gallery, Pondicherry, India (solo)
Fundacao Oriente, Panaji, India (solo)
M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India (solo)
War is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2005 |
Framing Space, Marking Time, The University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL (solo) |
| 2004 |
Realism, Symbol Gallery, New York, NY
Street Graphics: India & Mexico, Kathryn Myers & Ricardo Milla, Congregation Beth Shalom, Chester, CT
Mystery & Ordinariness, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, The University of Connecticut (solo)
Mirror Mirror: Self-Portrait, Self-Image, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of CT, Storrs |
| 2003 |
Recent Works, Kathryn Myers & Stephen Fisher, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
Masala, Street Graphics of India, Department of South Asian Studies, The University of Chicago (solo)
Aurodhan Gallery, Pondicherry, India (solo) |
| 2002 |
Mainsite Contemporary Art, Normal, OK (solo)
Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL (solo)
ArtWorld Gallery, Chennai, India (solo)
DakshinaChitra, Chennai, India (solo)
Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY (group)
Shold, ArtChamber-Goa, Calangute, India |
| 2001 |
Chitraniketan Gallery, Trivandrum, India (solo)
Journeys, Kathryn Myers & Suzanne Stevens, 100 Pearl Street Gallery, Hartford, CT
Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Kathryn Myers & Elisabeth Condon, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence RI |
| 2000 |
Galerie du Tableau, Marseilles, France (solo)
The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (solo)
The Irish Art Center, New York, NY (solo)
Land, Sea, Sky, Artworks at Dover, New Bedford, MA
Senior Faculty Invitational Exhibition, Jenkins Gallery, The Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL
Palm Beach International Art Expo 98, West Palm Beach, FL
Inside Stories, Kathryn Myers & Mark Stock, The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
Degrees of Realism, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA |
| 1998 |
The DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL (solo)
The Frizzell Cultural Center, Ft. Myers, FL (solo)
The Richmond Art Center, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT (solo)
Park Avenue Gallery, Monroe, LA (solo)
From Virtual to Real, The Romanian Cultural Center, New York, NY
Eleven Faces, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Representing Herself, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA |
| 1997 |
The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL (solo)
The Mazur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA (solo)
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI (solo)
Andrews Gallery, College of William &Mary, Williamsburg, VA (solo) |
| 1996 |
Jenkins Gallery, The Crealde School of Art, Winter, Park, FL (solo)
Liberating Spirit, St. Marks Church, New York, NY
Selections 96, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
New Acquisitions, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs |
| 1995 |
Figures Painted/Constructed, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL (two person)
Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
Inspiring Intensity, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Unpeopled Places, Keeney Cultural Center, Wethersfield, CT |
| 1994 |
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI (solo)
Visual Arts Gallery, Marietta College, Marietta, OH (solo)
Sleeping & Waking, Wellesley Ross Gallery, New York, NY (group)
Women Artists/Educators, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, DeCatur, GA
The Painted Portrait, Montpelier Art Center, Laurens, MD |
| 1993 |
Galeria Silvano Lodi, Milan, Italy (solo)
Mahler Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo) |
| 1992 |
C&A Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Blind Faith Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
A.Montgomery Ward Gallery, The University of Illinois at Chicago (solo)
Activated Walls, Artist's Space, New York, NY
They Earned Their Keep, The Museum of Art, Science & Industry, Bridgeport, CT (group)
Drawings, C&A Gallery, New York, NY (group) |
| 1991 |
Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (solo)
Paintings From Theatre Stu Expo 92' Seville, Spain
Kathryn Myers & Phyllis McGibbon, Untitled Gallery, SanFrancisco, CA
Figures, PS 122, New York, NY
The Postmodern Baroque, The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Lives Still & Otherwise, Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Paintings from Theatre Stu, Kopiec Koszusco, Krakow, Poland |
| 1990 |
C&A Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Galeria Akademii, Krakow, Poland (solo) |
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| Professional Activities |
| 2008 |
Lecture, American Artists and India, Influence & Appropriation, Jnana Pravaha, Varanasi, The Attic, New Delhi, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadadora |
| 2007 |
Lecture, Alienation, Exile and Belonging, Modern Art in India, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Panelist, The Influence of Indian in Contemporary American Art, 36th Annual Conference on South Asia, The University of Wisconsin, Madison
Author, Indian Art in Rural America, pp, 31-36, June/July Span Magazine, New Delhi, India
Author, Indian Art in Rural America, July 5, Matters of Art.Com, India/ Features, |
| 2006 |
Curator, India, Proximities of Distance, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut
Lecture, Western Artistic Responses to India, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India
Lecture, Western Artistic Responses to India, Goa College of Art, Panji, India |
| 2005 |
Author, The Inspiration of India in Current American Art, pp. 28-33, Sept/Oct, Span Magazine, New Delhi, India
Chair, The Inspiration of India in Current American Art, College Art Association, Atlanta, GA |
| 2004 |
Curator, Masala: Diversity & Democracy in South Asian Art, The William Benton Museum of Art, CT
Lecture, Diversity in Modern & Contemporary Indian Art, Gallery Arts India, New York, NY |
| 2003 |
Lecture/workshop, The Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad, India
Lecture, Department of Art, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India
Lecture, Contemporary Portraiture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Panelist, South Indian Street Graphics, South Asian Popular Culture, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Artist talk, East West Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Lecture, Traditional influence in South Asian Art, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Panelist, Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Sites of Recurrence, DakshinaChitra, Chennai, India
Painting workshop, Stella Maris College, Madras, India |
| 2002 |
Panelist, Traditional influences in contemporary South Asian Art, Mid America Art Association Conference, Lincoln, NE
Lecture, Contemporary American Figurative Painting, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India,
Workshop, ArtChamber, Goa, Calangute, India
Lecture, Western Artists Response to South Asia, American Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
Workshop, Stella Maris Womens College, Chennai, India
Lecture, Western Artists' response to South Asia, Amethyst Gallery, Chennai, India
Lecture, Contemporary American Figurative Painting, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India
Lecture/workshop, Government College of Arts & Crafts, Chennai India
Workshop, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India
Workshop, Government College of Arts & Crafts, Calcutta India
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| 2001 |
Panelist, Arts of India Conference, Western Artists' Response to India, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI,
Panelist, Positive Power, The Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, CT
Visiting artist, Trinity College, Hartford, CT |
| 1999 |
Lecture, Figurative Painting in America, The Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad India, |
| 1998 |
Workshop, The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
Workshop, Park Avenue Gallery, Monroe, LA
Workshop, The Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL
Visiting artist,, The Chelsea College of Art, London, England |
| 1996 |
Workshop, The Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, FL |
| 1995 |
Guest professor, Summer program, Arts in Provence, St. Saturnin les Apt, Provence, France
Visiting artist, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY,
Visiting artist, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Visiting Artist, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL
Visiting Artist, Montavalo State University, Montavalo, AL
Visiting Artist, The University of Alabama, Birmingham
Lecture, Narrative Painting, The New York Academy of Figurative Art, |
| 1994 |
Visiting artist, Boston University, Boston, MA
Workshop, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
Visiting artist, Kutztown State University, Kutztown, PA |
| 1993 |
Visiting artist, Holy Cross College, Worchester, MA
Guest professor, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, summer session |
| 1990 |
Visiting artist, The New York Academy of Figurative Art, New York, NY |
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| Awards/Residencies |
| 2003 |
Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca Spain
Chancellors Research Grant, The University of Connecticut |
| 2002 |
Fulbright Senior Scholar, India |
| 2001 |
Chitraniketan Residency, Kovalam, India |
| 1999 |
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India
The Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad, India |
| 1997 |
The Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Ireland |
| 1996 |
Fundacion Valpraiso, Almeria, Spain |
| 1995 |
Casa Manilva, Spanish Studio, The Delfina Studio Trust, London, England |
| 1992& 91 |
The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, NY
Project Residency Grant, The Hillwood Museum of Art, Brookville, New York |
| 1991 |
Individual Artist’s Fellowship, The Connecticut Commission on the Arts |
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