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Kate MacDowell’s work explores our physical and psychological relationships with the animal kingdom. Whether as proxy, trophy, raw material, or mythic symbol, animals currently occupy a space in our subconscious which layers history, fable, and an awareness of species fragility.
About Kate MacDowell
Kate MacDowell’s hand-built porcelain sculptures respond to environmental threats and their consequences, revealing the rifts and frictions between man and nature. Based out of Portland, Oregon, her work has been shown throughout the US and Europe at Scope Miami and New York, Seattle Art Fair, ArtAmsterdam, Art London, London Art Fair, Showoff Paris, Art Paris, Solo Project Basel, NEXT, and Art Chicago fairs. She was an artist in residence at the Kohler Arts and Industry Program and has had work in group exhibits in the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), Banksy’s Dismaland Bemusement Park, MOCA North Miami and Virginia, Urban Nation Museum Berlin, the Fuller Craft Museum and the Muskegon, Akron, Crocker, Biggs, Everson, Canton and Asheville Art Museums.
Her work has been published in books and periodicals including The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Hi-Fructose, American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, Beautiful Bizarre, O.K. Periodicals (NL), Creative Review and Rooms (UK), and Hey! (Paris) among others. Her work was featured on the CD and single cover art for Erasure’s album, Tomorrow’s World and she can be seen sculpting in stop motion in the official audio video for a song on Miike Snow’s III album. She also sculpted individual ‘daemons’ for an HBO campaign associated with the television program His Dark Materials.
Kate MacDowell CV
EDUCATION
1995
MAT in English, Brown University, Providence, RI
1994
BA in English and American Literature, Brown University, Providence, RI
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Fight and Flight, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2016
Seattle Art Fair with Mindy Solomon Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015
Completely Exposed, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2013
Fragile Endurance, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2008
After Eden, Beet Gallery, Portland, OR
Window Project II, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Fairyland 2: Deeper, Darker, curated by Valerie Hegarty, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2024
No Grout, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2023
Birds and Fish III, Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
Lagomorphs: Rabbits and Hares in Contemporary Craft, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Sculpture Garden, group exhibition at Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Thinking with Animals, Canton Museum, Canton, OH
Tiny Ghosts, group exhibition, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
Composition and Layout, group exhibition, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Written in Clay, Water Stone Gallery, Portland, OR
2021
Amalia, Haven Gallery, Long Island, NY
Fairyland, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Confluence, two person exhibit with Kathryn Hunter at Allen Priebe Gallery, UW Oshkosh, WI
2020
Midnight Garden, group exhibit curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine at Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Telling Instinct: John James Audubon, exhibit at Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
76th Scripps College Ceramic Annual, group exhibit at Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA
2019
Undying Traditions: Memento Mori, exhibit at Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
Subversive Suburbia, group exhibit at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Gaia Reborn: A Future Utopia, at Project M/Urban Nation Museum, Berlin, Germany
Ceramics: Walk on the Wild Side, group exhibit at Pence Art Gallery, Davis, CA
Animals Among Us, Red Lodge Clay Center curated by Russell Wrankle and I, Red Lodge, MT
A Delicate Nature, an NCECA group exhibit with Antler Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
A Beautiful Ghost, group exhibit at Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018
Small Works: Big Impact, group exhibit at Momentum Gallery, Asheville, NC
Raise A Glass: A Contemporary…, group exhibit at Gallery 224 (Harvard), Cambridge, MA
Audubon, Then and Now, group exhibit at The Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
Life Is a Beautiful Place: A Radical Collaboration, group exhibit at Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics, group exhibit at Everson Museum of Art,
Syracuse, NY
2017
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Shadowtide, NCECA exhibit with Gosia and Sarah Louise Davey, Talon Gallery, Portland, OR
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose, group exhibit at Akron Art Museum, OH
Solastalgia: Artists Respond…, exhibit at North View Gallery, Portland Community College,
OR
Foundrae jewelry display props, New York Fashion Week, NY
2016
Intersectionality in South Florida, group exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art N. Miami, FL
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose, group exhibit at Virginia MOCA, VA
AAF London Battersea Park, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
London Art Fair, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
The Engaged Object: Contemporary Craft as a Catalyst… Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
2015
Beautiful Grotesque, group exhibit at Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO
Dismaland, group exhibit in Banksy’s Bemusement Park at Weston-super-Mare, UK
Trophies and Prey: A Contemporary Bestiary, group exhibit at Peters Projects, Santa Fe,
NM
2014
Intense and Fragile, group exhibit at Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2013
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon Gallery, Houston, Texas
Body & Soul: New International Ceramics, group exhibit Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
Responsibility, group exhibit with Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Switzerland
Art Paris Art Fair, group exhibit with Galerie Vanessa Quang Paris, France
SCOPE New York, group exhibit with Patrajdas Contemporary Gallery, NYC
2012
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon gallery, Houston, TX
German Mettlach Ware & Present-Day Translations, AMOCA, Pomona, CA
Earth & Alchemy: Contemp. Ceramic Sculpture, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, MassArt, Boston
The solo project Basel 2012, w/ Marina de Caro, Galerie Vanessa Quang, Basel, Switzerland
Detailed Information, small group exhibit with Mindy Solomon gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Natural Macabre, group NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, Seattle Design Center
Earth Precipice, group NCECA Concurrent Exhibition, Seattle Design Center
SCOPE New York, group exhibit with Patrajdas Contemporary gallery, New York, NY
2011
SCOPE Miami, B-39, group exhibit with Patrajdas Contemporary gallery, Miami, FL
SCOPE Miami, C-21, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon gallery, Miami, FL
Night Scented Stock, group exhibit with Marianne Boesky gallery, NYC, NY
Shadowside, Part II, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
Vernisage, group exhibit with Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
Art Chicago, group exhibit with Patrajdas Contemporary gallery, Chicago, IL
Florida Souvenirs, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
London Art Fair, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
2010
Find me a gift, group exhibit with Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris, France
Art London, group exhibit with bo.lee gallery, London, UK
Animal Instinct, John Micheal Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
DIY: A Revolution in Handicrafts, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
BAM Biennial 2010: Clay Throwdown!, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
ArtHamptons, group exhibit with Mindy Solomon Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Shadowside, bo.lee gallery, Bath, U.K.
Art in the Kitchen, artKitchen and Gallery A, Art Amsterdam Fair, Netherlands
NEXT Chicago, Patrajdas Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Café Endlager, exhibition and technology museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Bright and White, Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Earth Matters, NCECA Invitational, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
CERAM-A-RAMA, Ceramics Research Center auction/exhibit, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Corporeal Manifestations, Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Sitka Art Invitational, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
Proverbial Porcelain, Zelli Porcelain, London, UK
Art Fest of Clay and Fire, Sapporo Contemporary Museum, Sapporo, Japan
CURIOSITIES, four person exhibition, Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Feats of Clay 2009, Lincoln Arts and Culture Foundation, Lincoln, CA
A Mixed Bag of Small Ceramic Wonders, Crossman Gallery, U of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI
2009 NICHE Awards, Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft, Philadelphia, PA
2008
CraftForms 2008, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Envisioning a Future, South Seattle Community College Gallery, Seattle, WA
Sculpted Green, 2008 Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition, Bellevue City Hall, Bellevue, WA
Viewpoint:Ceramics 2008, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
Clay? II, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2007
Supernatural, PICA TBA:07, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2007 Craft Biennial, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
Oregon Potters Association Ceramics Showcase, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
The Figure: transcribing the human form, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019
Summer Session Residency, Ash Street Project, Portland, OR
2018
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Residency, Otis, OR
2012
John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency, Sheboygan, WI
2010
Professional Development Grant, RACC, Portland, OR
2009
Short-listed, Zelli Porcelain Award 2009, Zelli Porcelain, London, UK
Best of Show, Feats of Clay 2009, Lincoln Arts and Culture Foundation, Lincoln, CA
Winner, Ceramics: Hand-built/Molded, 2009 NICHE Awards, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Visionary Award of Excellence, CraftForms 2008, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
First Prize, Honorable Mention, Viewpoint: Ceramics 2008, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
Best of Show, Clay? II, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
2007
Individual Merit Award, 2007 Craft Biennial, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR
2nd place, Oregon Potters Association Ceramics Showcase, Portland, OR
Bob & Peggy Culbertson Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Kiln God Residency, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
ARTIST TALKS
2022
Waterstone Gallery, Portland, OR
2021
Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
Webster University, St. Louis, MO
2019
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
2018
Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
2013
Clayfolk, Ashland, OR
John Micheal Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2012
SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2011
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2010
Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2007
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME
WORKSHOPS
2019
Red Lodge Clay Center weekend workshop with Russell Wrankle, Red Lodge, MT
2018
Transforming the Natural World, summer workshop, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2013
Clayfolk weekend workshop, Ashland, OR
2010
Transforming the Natural World, summer workshop, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2024
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Blog, “Art & Ecology in the Anthropocene…Kate MacDowell” by Cecelia Blum, Summer 2024
2021
artthescience.com, “Creators – Kate MacDowell”, by McKenzie Prillaman, January 21, 2021
2020
Classic Pop Magazine: Vince Clark, “Pop Art” by Andrew Dineley, pp. 74,77
2020 Scripps College 76th Ceramic Annual catalog, by Joanne Hayakawa, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, pp. 14, 30-31, 52-53 Muse by Clio, “HBO Crafted Amazing ‘Personal Daemons’ for the Biggest Fans of His Dark Materials” by Tim Nudd, Jan 3, 2020 Marketingdive.com, “HBO gifts fans of ‘His Dark Materials’ personalized sculptures”, by Robert Williams, Jan 2, 2020
2019
Inlandempire.us, “Joanne Hayakawa: A Wing and a Prayer II”, Dec. 26, 2019
Campaign US, “HBO gifts “His Dark Materials” fans their own daemons”, by Michael Heusner Dec 24, 2019
Ceramique: 90 Artistes Contemporains, by Charlotte Vannier & Veronique Pettit Laforet, Pyramyd editions, (French) 294-299
2018
Empathetic Space on Screen… by Amedeo D’Adamo, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 226-230
Tribeca Citizen, “New Kid on the Block: Foundrae” April 9
Syracuse New Times, “Creative Energy Drives Everson Museum’s…” by Carl Mellor, Marc 28
2017
Ecotheo Review, Winter-Spring 2017, “Ability vs. culpability: Kate MacDowell”
beautiful.bizarre magazine (Australia), #16, “Kate MacDowell” by Justine Morrow, pp.56-65
2016
Shop Talk, Edinboro Uni., vol. 7, Spring, “Kate MacDowell…” by Sara Catapano, pp. 57-64
Telegraph (U.K),”A Brooklyn Brownstone inspired by…” by Jessica Doyle, March 12
Miike Snow III, Stop motion video used as official audio for song,‘I feel the weight’
Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose, exhibit catalog, Virginia MOCA, pp. 82-83
Write About Art (Australia), issue 6, “Beheading Mother Nature” by Kate Atkinson, pp. 52-54
The New Age of Ceramics, by Hannah Stouffer, Gingko Press, “Kate MacDowell” pp. 292-301
Hey! 4 Degrees Art (France), by Anne & Julien, Special Issue 2, “Kate MacDowell” p. 128
2015
Banksy’s Dismaland exhibition was covered in most major media
Bound in Being: An Obliged Ontology, New Directions in Ecotheology Panel, Lily Oster,
Atlanta
Santa Fe New Mexican: Pasatiempo, “Pride of the Animal Kingdom… by Iris McLister, Aug 7
Hi-Fructose Magazine,“Mutiny…The Art of Kate MacDowell”, 16 page insert, Vol 37
BioArt: Altered Realities, by William Myers, flyleaf illustration and “Kate MacDowell” pp.
48-49
2014 San Antonio Current, “Porcelain Gets a Modern Makeover…” by Dan R. Goddard, Dec. 3
dpi: Design Popular Imagination Magazine (Taiwan), “Kate MacDowell”, pp. 68-73, Vol. 180
Vision magazine (China), “Kate MacDowell: Craftsmanship…” no. 142, Aug., pp. 185-189
ARTnews, “10 Cool Trends in Contemporary Ceramic Art”, by Alexander Mahany, June 16
Terrart Magazine (Spain), “Body & Soul report” by Merced Coma, no. 44, First Semester
2014
Art of Ceramics, “Kate MacDowell” by Carolina Amell, publisher: Monsa, Barcelona. pp.
48-53
New York Times, “It’s Mourning in America“ by Penelope Green, slide 20. April 9
Ceramics: Art & Perception (Australia), “Body & Soul…” by Jan Garden Castro, issue #95
Es Madrid no Madriz Magazine (Spain), “Kate MacDowell: Fragil conexion” No. 21, pp. 34-48
2013
Body & Soul: New International Ceramics, exhibition catalog, MAD Museum, NYC
Zoom on Fashion Trends (Milan), “Clarity” issue, no. 52, Nov. 2013, cover art
Boston Globe, “Arts Wednesday”, Oct. 13, p. G3
Ceramics: Art & Perception, “Earth & Alchemy” by Janet Koplos, issue #93, Sept., pp. 70-75
Hey! Modern art & Pop Culture (Paris), “Kate MacDowell” by Anne & Julien, #14, pp. 54-63
Little Thing Magazine (China), “Interview with Kate Mac…” by O. Elephant, #30, pp. 66-69
American Craft, “More Than Human” by Julie K. Hanus, April/May, Vol. 73, no. 2, p. 33
2012
The Best of 500 Ceramics, Celebrating a Decade in Clay, Lark Crafts
Dark Stories by Dark Artists (UK), by Nie Youjia, China Youth and CYPI Press, pp. 188 – 195
Creator Magazine (UK), Tu Tu Much Media, issue 05, pp. 10-19
Migrate (South Africa), “Kate MacDowell: Change the World” Viva! 015, pp. 20-25, cover
Ceramics Ireland (Ireland), “Natural Macabre” issue 29, pp. 18-20
2011
Rooms Magazine (UK), “Kate MacDowell…”, by Adan Jerreat-Poole, pp. 12-19, issue #7
SKULL STYLE: Skulls in Contemporary Art and Design (New York), by Farameh Media LLC
Tomorrow’s World, cd and single cover art designed by Tom Hingston for Erasure album
Ecofeminism and Rhetoric, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch, Berghahn Books, cover and preface
Kult Magazine (Singapore), “Animals” issue
Bioephemera, “Kate MacDowell: Bloodless Bodies”, by Jessica Palmer, Sept 7
Doppelganger: Images of the Human Being (Berlin), by Gestalten: exploring visual culture
American Craft, “Craft’s New Consciousness”, by Savannah Schroll Guz, Feb/Mar, pp. 26-27
2010
Ceramics: Art & Perception, “Corporeal Manifestations”, by Colette Copeland, Dec #82
Dark Inspiration: grotesque illustrations, art and design (Hong Kong), viction:ary, pp. 46-55
American Style, “Kate MacDowell”, 2010 Emerging Artists, issue 74, Nov
Ms. Use (Israel), Eco Sex, vol. 2, summer
BANG Art (Italy), Speciale Animali, “Amabilichimere”, by Rosa Maria Albino, pp. 74-75, #7
Quotation: Worldwide Creative Journal (Japan), by Daisuke Nishimura, p. 51, no. 8, summer
Western Humanities Review, cover art and multiple photo illustrations, Vol. LXV, no. 2
Creative Review Magazine (U.K.), “Hi-Res” pp. 20-21, June
Bear Deluxe Magazine, The Creative Nonfiction Issue, “Independent Art”, #30, p. 3
2010 NCECA Invitational Earth Matters Catalog, essays by Nichole Burisch and Glen Brown
Hi-Fructose Magazine, “Cross-sectioning Ghosts with Kate MacDowell”, Jen Pappas, Vol 15
Spraygraphic (blog), “Spraygraphic Interview with Artist Kate MacDowell”
O.K Periodicals (Netherlands), Vol. 4, “Curiosities”, p. 80
Calle20 Magazine (Spain), “Escultures de Sueños”, Luisa Bernal, pp.18-23, No. 46
New York Times Sun. Magazine, “Is There an Ecological Unconscious? “, photo illustrations
notcot, streetanatomy, formfiftyfive, abduzeedo, paulbaines, treehugger, juxtapoz and
others
2009
Lobster and Canary (blog), “6 + 1 Interview: Kate D. MacDowell”, by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
Ceramics Monthly, “Curiosities”, Upfronts section, September, p. 18
The: Santa Fe’s Monthly Magazine for the Arts, “Curiosities”, by Marin Sardy, August, p. 56
500 Ceramic Sculptures, Juror: Glen R. Brown, Editor Suzanne Tourtillott, Lark Books
2008
425 Magazine, “Sustainable Sculptures – Seeing Green in Bellevue”, Jenny Lynn Zappala
Fairyland 2: Deeper, Darker
January 10—February 15, 2025
Kate MacDowell: Fight and Flight
Sep 12–Oct 12, 2024
Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects
September 17 - October 22, 2022
Kate MacDowell creates sculptures for HBO
January 4, 2020/by Frances TromblyDavid Hicks and Kate MacDowell in Everson Museum of Art Exhibition
November 11, 2017/by FulanoKate MacDowell
Kate MacDowell: Completely Exposed
April 10-May 22nd, 2015
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