Kathleen McShane

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email: kathleenmcshane64@gmail.com

 
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-