CATHERINE KERNAN
32 Clifton Street
Somerville, MA 02144
(617) 628-8014
(617) 776-3892 FAX
ckernan@star.net


EDUCATION

Cooper Union New York, NY BFA 1974 / Ford FoundationScholarship 1968.
Wellesley College Wellesley, MA 1966-68 / NY State Regents' Scholar.
University of Wisconsin Madison, WI MFA 1980 / Teaching Assistantship 1979-80.

REPRESENTATION

Dolan/Maxwell Philadelphia, PA
Stewart & Stewart Birmingham, MI
Carla Massoni Gallery / Chestertown, MD
Soprafina Gallery, Cambridge, MA

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS

Julia and David White Artists Colony Residency / Costa Rica / 2005
Artist’s Resource Trust Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation grant 2002
Somerville Arts Council / Visual Artist Grant 2002
Winchester Foundation for Educational Excellence / Artist in Residence Grant 2002
St.Botolph Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid 1999
Somerville Arts Council Grant 1996,1997
Ballinglen Arts Foundation / Ballycastle, Co. Mayo Ireland 1992, -93,-94,-96,-97,-99, -01, -02
Faculty Research Award Wellesley College 1992
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts / Sweetbriar, VA Sept-Oct 1989
Artists' Foundation / Mass Council on the Arts - Finalist 1988
MacDowell Colony / Peterborough, NH February 1985

FACULTY TEACHING

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / 2002-6 / Visiting Instructor
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Summer 2002 / Visiting Instructor
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI Fall semester 1998 / Visiting Instructor
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Semester II 1997-8 / Visiting Instructor
School of the Museum of Fine Arts 1993-5 / Visiting Instructor
Art Institute of Boston 1996-97 / Associate Professor
Massachusetts College of Art Spring semester1996 / Visiting Professor
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 1986 - 1994 / Assistant Professor
Pine Manor College Chestnut Hill, MA Semester II 1993 / Visiting Professor

CRITIQUES

Rhode Island School of Design 1994, 2000
Harvard University Graduate School of Design 1994
Massachusetts College of Art 1991, 1992
University of the Arts/ Philadelphia, PA 1987
Vermont College at Norwich University MFA Program 1995,1996
Hartford Art School Hartford, CT 1987
The Printmaking Workshop / Etching 1981

WORKSHOPS

Open Air Museum Relief Woodcut / Punta Lslita, Costa Rica / 2005
MakingArtSafely / Santa Fe, NM / 2003, - 05, -06
College of Santa Fe Printmaking Center, 2003, -04
Mass Art/Art New England Summer Workshops / Bennington, VT August -01,-02, -04
Connecticut Graphic Arts Center / Norwalk, CT October 2001
Anderson Ranch / Snowmass, CO Aug. 2000, 2003
Pyramid Atlantic / Riverdale, MD Feb. 2000
Conn. Graphic Arts Center / Norwalk, CT 1997, 1998, 2000
Printmakers of Cape Cod / Barnstable, MA Nov. 1996
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Ballycastle, Ireland 1996
Blackstone Print Studio / Worcester, MA 1996
Drawing in the Greenhouse / Wellesley College 1992. - 3
Art New England Summer Workshops at Bennington 1991 - 4, 1996, - 98, -01
Rugg Road Handmade Paper/ Somerville, MA 1990-93
Printmakers of Cape Cod 1993, 1994
Monotype Guild of New England 1992, 2000

COMMISSIONS/PUBLICATIONS

A Reconstructed Play by Euripides / book cover design and illustrations / Published
By The Greek Institute / Cambridge, MA / 2006
Proof in Print: A Community of Printmaking Studios / a book published by The Boston Public

Library and Mixit Print Studio in 2001.
Sea Cleft #2 / color intaglio published by The Print Club of Rochester as the 2001 edition.
The Workshop Portfolios / a group of five portfolios from related printmaking studios 2000
Sea Cleft #1 / color intaglio published by The Print Club of Cleveland as the 1998 edition
The Great Ship of Memory / color intaglio to accompany translations from the Greek of poems

by Kostas Ouranis. Published by the Greek Institute Cambridge, MA 1994
Lyric Suite / a suite of nine intaglios to accompany translations from the Greek of poems

by Christopoulos Published by the Greek Institute Cambridge, MA 1992
Sticks #1 and Sticks #2 / screenprints 16" x 20" Stewart & Stewart, Publisher, Birmingham,

MI 1990.
Traversal I and Traversal II / screenprints 16" x 20" Stewart & Stewart, Publisher, Birmingham,

MI 1986
Point of Departure / a portfolio of 30 prints, co-organized with Jane Goldman
Artist's Proof printmaking studio, Cambridge, MA, 1984
River Sticks / an artist/performer collaboration with Pooh Kaye commissioned by P.S.1 and

performed at P.S.1, New York, NY, 1984 and The New Dance Alliance, NY, NY, 1984.
Cutaway I, II, III / color intaglios ea. 23"x31". Ronbie Editions,1982-3.
Nisia Suite / a boxed set of six intaglios 9"x12". Ronbie Editions, 1981

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Achenbach Foundation
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Fogg Museum of Art
Grunewald Collection/ UCLA
Detroit Institute of Art
Elvehjem Museum of Art
Madison Art Center
U.S.State Department Art Bank Program
Moravian College Collection
Honolulu Academy of the Arts
College Art Association Collection
Mediq
Bank of Boston
Fidelity
Knight Publishing Co.
Roche, Carens and DeGiacomo
Sun Oil
Atlantic Richfield
IBM
Fidelity Trust
New England Medical Center
Northern Trust Co.
North Carolina National Bank
Miller Brewing Co.
First Federal Savings of Detroit
Lister/Butler
New England Journal of Medicine
Nolan Norton
Harvard Management
Bank of New England
Honeywell
Computers in Medicine
BNE Associates
Edward Kaloust
MMM
Bay Colony - Waltham
Property Capital
Fairchild Industries
DTSS
Saunders Associates
Hallmark
Cisco Systems
Mellon Bank
Ernst & Young
The Baine Co
Fairchild Industries
Equitable Life
Smith Barney
Prudential Equitable Life
SOHIO
Continental Telephone
Project Software
Selecterm
Grahm Gund Collection


PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
 
 
 


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2004

Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art / National Academy of Design / New York, NY
Images from North Mayo / Courthouse Gallery / Ballycastle, Ireland
At the Water’s Edge: Goldman, Kernan, Manolson /Carney Gallery /Regis College / Weston, MA
Reaching Out With Art / Carla Massoni Gallery / Chestertown, MD
Gathering Force : Works on Paper by Catherine Kernan / Soprafina Gallery / Boston, MA


2003


Eire/Land McMullen Museum of Art / Boston College / chestnut Hill, MA
Memorial Portfolio 9/11 Higgins Art Gallery / Cape cod Community Gallery / Barnstable, MA
Boston Printmakers N. American Print Exhibit / 808 Gallery / Boston, MA
Take five: Badenhausen, Garber, Kernan, Siebel, Warner / Soprafina Gallery / Cambridge, MA
Una Comunidad de Talleres de Grabado Espaciao Abierto / Habana, Cuba
Points of view: New England Artists in Ireland / The New Art Center / Newton, MA
To Ballinglen and Back: Boston Artists in Ireland / Scollay Square Gallery / Boston, MA


2002


Nature Interpreted / Concord Art Association / Concord, MA
Visual Arts Grants in Aid Exhibition / St. Botolph Club / Boston, MA
Art On Display in Office of the Director of the NEA / Washington D.C.
Somerville Arts Council Grant Winners / Somerville Museum / Somerville, MA
Mass College of Art Summer Workshop Faculty / Plum Gallery / Williamstown, MA
Proof in Print at Brickbottom Gallery / Somerville, MA
Art in the Embassies Program / Ambassador’s Residence, Athens,Greece
Works on Paper Published by Stewart & Stewart / Smith Anderson Editions / Palo Alto, CA
Impression: Printmaking I / Carla Massoni Gallery and Pyramid Atlantic / Chestertown, MD


2001


Past to the Present – An Exhibit Featuring Women Printmakers of Wisconsin / Memorial Union
Gallery / University of Wisconsin/Madison
Boston Printmakers North American Print Exhibition / 808 Gallery at Boston University /
David Keihl, juror
Proof in Print: A Community of Printmaking Studios / Wiggin Gallery at The Boston Public Library
Studio Traditions Boston University Art Gallery / Boston, MA

2000


Dolan Maxwell at the New York Print Fair / 7th Regiment Armory / New York, NY
Stewart & Stewart: Twenty Years of Printmaking Paula Broqn Gallery / Toledo, OH
Catherine Kernan and John Rozelle Locus Gallery / St. Louis , MO
23rd National Print Biennial Silvermine Guild Galleries / New Canaan, CT Antonio Frasconi, juror
Catherine Kernan: An Artist in Greece / travel sketches, prints and paintings 1976-1998, The

Greek institute, Cambridge, MA
Painterly Prints RISD Museum / an exhibition of monoprints curated by Claude Eliot, Assistant Curator
The Workshop Portfolios / Glencore Gallery RAU University / Johannesberg, South Africa
Dolan Maxwell at the London Original Print Fair / Royal Academy of Art London, GB