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Awards and Residencies
2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
2022 Cite Internationale des Arts Paris, Spring Residency, Paris, France.
Montana Artist Refuge (June), Basin, MT.
2018 Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Summer Residency, Annaghmakerrig, Co.Monaghan, Ireland.
2017 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Summer Residency, Amherst, Virginia.
2005 Cite Internationale des Arts Paris, Summer Residency, Paris, France.
1999 MacDowell Colony, Summer Residency, Peterborough, NH.
1995 Millay Colony for the Arts, Summer Residency, Austerlitz, NY.
Museum of Modern Art, Curatorial Purchase Consideration, series of prints.
Special Award for Printmaking, Albright-Knox Western New York Exhibition.
Education
MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
BFA Alfred University, New York State College of Art and Design, Alfred, NY.
Drawing, Painting & Printmaking,
Exhibitions
2025 Hypercultural Passengers, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany on to Hamburg(2024-25)
Awkwardness, 2 person with Liz Rodda, (upcoming) Basket, Houston, TX.
2024 Out of Time, solo, Texas State Galleries, San Marcos, TX.
Shape Shift, ArtSpace, Wimberley, TX.
Wandering Light, Hale Space MAPC, Manhattan, KS.
Hot Bod, Basket, Houston, TX.
2023 All of the Clocks have been Wrong for Years, MASS Gallery, Austin.
Awkward, 2 person exhibition McShane and Rodda, Art+Lit Lab, Madison, WI.
2022 Drawings, Basket, Houston, TX
Along These Lines, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX(July)
Slow Work, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2021 Artists Draw Their Studios, Byrdcliffe Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock, NY
I Didn’t Lick It, Bruton Museum, Bruton Somerset, England
Drawing Challenge XVIII, Jason McCoy Gallery, NY, NY
2020 ArtMile Detroit, Online Exhibition, Reyes/Finn Productions, Paul Kotula Projects Gallery
UT Tyler Gallery, Texas State Faculty Exhibition, Tyler, TX
The Interior, Selected work of Tyrone Guthrie Collection, traveling Cavan Gallery,
Donegal +, Ireland.
Holkhuis(Modern House Restoration Project Collection) Group exhibition, Ann Arbor, MI.
Malinger Part 2, Solo at Bill Davenport’s Optical Project Gallery, Houston, TX
2019 Limbic Songs, Curated by Cotter Luppi,Realeyes Gallery, North Adams, MA.
Summer, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI.
The Interior, Selected work of Tyrone Guthrie Collection, traveling Cavan Gallery,
Donegal +, Ireland.
2018 To Time, Paul Kotula Projects Gallery, Detroit, MI.
Der Greif, Ellen Bahr & Kathleen McShane, Germany. https://dergreif-online.de/about/
Stealth Futura, Ghezzi, Humphries, McShane, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monahan Ireland.
Ikebana Zigurrat, Cohen Gallery, Alfred, NY.
2017 Malingerer, Solo Show, Optical Projects;Bill Davenport Project, Houston, TX.
Island, Oasis, Mirage, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX
Summer, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI.
2016 Texas Draws IV Biennial, Rogers Gallery SSAC, San Antonio, TX.
Chronodrift, Lumber Room Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Anonyme Zeichner Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Russelheim, Germany
2015 Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, and Rome, Italy.
Gallery, Dime and Honey Gallery, http://www.dimeandhoney.com/
Print Publications, Gridspace Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 Monoliths, Solo Show, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI.
Off Beige, SOFA Gallery, Austin, TX.
Bodies and Beasts, Schema Projects Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Hunting Prize Exhibit, Houston, TX
Friends of Friends, Lovey Town Projects, http://loveytown.org/about.
2013 Monsieurs Teste & Law Olmsted, solo show, GRIDSPACE Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Faculty Exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
2012 Aleph, installation at Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI.
Giving Time to Time, group show including George Condo, Jim Shrosbree, Heather McGill, Peter Williams,
Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI.
Faculty Exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
2011 Frameworks and Footholds, Public Art Project/Woodward Ave. billboard, Detroit, MI.
Artists Collect, Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI.
2010 The Art of the Artists Book, Oakland University Gallery, Rochester, MI.
Re/Mark Drawings, Lamar Dodd Gallery, Athens, GA..
2009 Boston Drawing Project Show, Joseph Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA.
Summer, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI.
2008 Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
Fixity’s Rainbow, solo show at Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI.
Etch and Sketches, Arts Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.
2007 Group Drawing show, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit. MI.
Cut, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI.
Grimpen Drawings, Bernard Toale Gallery (now Carroll and Sons Gallery), Boston, MA.
I’d Rather Be Drawing, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
2006 Art on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
Flat, Funk + Physical, Cazenovia Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY.
2005 Drawings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI.
-Scope New York, New York, NY.
Drawings, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
2004 Night of a Thousand Drawings, Artists Space, NY, NY.
Gallery Joe, San Francisco Art Fair, CA.
2003 Graphite, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA.
Artist's Choice, Eyebeam (Bomb Magazine benefit exhibition, "Established artists choose emerging artists"), NY, NY. (My work purchased by James Rosenquist.)
2002 Abstract Tendencies, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Gallery Joe at Art Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, IL.
4 Drawing Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA.
ZineScene, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
2001 Paper, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Making the Making, Apex Art, New York, NY.
2000 Basel Art Fair, George Billis Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
Pierogi Flatfiles, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Pierogi Flatfiles, Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO.
1999 Qwork, E. Herzog, M. Lum, J. Pepper, K. McShane, FEED Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Clarity of Seduction, Network Gallery, Detroit, MI.
Additives, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY.
Agitating Utopia, CFA Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
1998 little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York, NY.
Five and Ten, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC.
1997 Current UnderCurrents, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
NY Drawers, Gasworks Gallery, Manchester, England.
Do It, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
1996 Books, Dana Gallery, Newark, NJ.
The Art Exchange Show New York, NY.
Pieces of Nine, Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ.
1995 Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY.
Drawings, Artist’s Space, New York, NY.
Drawings, Watanabe Studio, Brooklyn, NY.
Professional
2012-2024
Painting and Drawing Faculty, Thesis, Advanced levels Painting, Drawing, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.
2003-2011
Foundations Faculty, Taught and helped design courses University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
-Various times between 1993-2000: Draftperson, assistant to artists Pat Steir and Sol LeWitt
Publications
Glasstire, Solo show review: https://glasstire.com/2024/11/09/txst-galleries-outside-of-time-scene-8-aircraft-carrier/
Art + Lit Laboratory, “Interview with Liz Rodda and Kathleen McShane”, 2023 https://artlitlab.org/all-review/interview-with-liz-rodda-and-kathleen-mcshane-on-awkward
The Great God Pan is dead, “Fantastic Voyages”, 8/29/2022
Austin Chronicle,” Island Oasis Mirage” at Big Medium, 6/30/17
Glasstire Texas Visual Art, “Top Five”, 2/11/2016
560 Broadway, A New York Drawing Collection at Work, Yale University Press
The Detroit News, “Two Knock-out Shows”, 9/22/11.
The Detroiter.com, 6/25/09, “The weekend of art openings”.
The Detroit News, 10/13/08, “Gallery Greats”.
Meditations in an Emergency, Klaus Kertess, p.7, 2007.
The Boston Globe, 10/11/07, “Classical meets Contemporary”.
The Detroiter, 5/16/07, “Cut at Kotula”
The News and Observer, 1/19/07, “Surprises unceasing”.
Winston-Salem Journal, 12/31/06, “A Profusion of Pleasure”.
The Carolinian, 12/06, “Weatherspoon’s Art on Paper”.
Detroit Infrastructure Journal, Spring 2006 Issue, drawing page 70.
The Syracuse Post Standard, 2/26/06, “Flat, Funk. And Physical”.
Markszine.com, March issue 07 (flash images)“Kathleen McShane”.
The Syracuse Post Standard, 2/26/06, “Art Calendar”.
The New York Observer, 4/14/03, "Art in the Time of SARS".
Drawing Papers 33, December 02, catalog for "Abstract Tendencies".
TimeOut New York magazine, 2/1/01, “Making the Making”.
Village Voice, 1/30/01, “Apex Art’
The New Yorker, 1/22/01, “Making the Making”.
The New York Times, 1/26/01, “Other Galleries”.
The Aldrich News, 1/26/01, “Paper”.
artnet.com magazine, 10/19/99, “Brooklyn Spice”.
In various private and public collections including James Rosenquist, Sarah and Werner Kramarsky, Entenmann Collection Germany, Sol and Carol LeWitt, Peter Riehl & Allison Horrne, Weatherspoon Museum, McNay Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Mott Children’s Hospital, Fidelity Investments, Susanne Hilberry. Work represented by Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI.
Added websites with work:
http://www.paulkotula.com/
http://www.paulkotula.com/artist/kathleen-mcshane/
http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/exhibitions/show/?title=art-on-paper-2006
http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_past.cfm?exh=129
http://www.carrollandsons.net/boston-drawing-project/index.php
http://www.susannehilberrygallery.com/drawings/drawings.htm
https://dergreif-online.de/artist-blog/ikebana-ziggurat-forthcoming-show-kathleen-mcshane/
https://gridspace.org/archive/new-text-page-
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