Kathleen McShane
instagram: kathleen_mcshane
email: [email protected]
Education
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
BFA, Alfred University, New York State College of Art and Design, Alfred, NY
Awards and Residencies
2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
2022 Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Spring Residency, Paris, France
2022 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 Cité 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
Exhibitions
2026 Coalesce, group, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2025 Hypercultural Passengers, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany (and Hamburg, 2024–25)
2025 Headless Times, 2-person with Liz Rodda, Basket, Houston, TX (upcoming)
2025 Age of Anxiety, solo, Scholes Project, Alfred, NY
2024 Out of Time, solo, Texas State Galleries, San Marcos, TX
2024 Shape Shift, ArtSpace, Wimberley, TX
2024 Wandering Light, Hale Space MAPC, Manhattan, KS
2024 Hot Bod, Basket, Houston, TX
2023 All of the Clocks have been Wrong for Years, MASS Gallery, Austin
2023 Awkward, 2-person exhibition McShane and Rodda, Art+Lit Lab, Madison, WI
2022 Drawings, Basket, Houston, TX
2022 Along These Lines, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
2022 Slow Work, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2021 Artists Draw Their Studios, Byrdcliffe Kleinert Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2021 I Didn't Lick It, Bruton Museum, Bruton Somerset, England
2021 Drawing Challenge XVIII, Jason McCoy Gallery, NY, NY
2020 ArtMile Detroit, Online Exhibition, Reyes/Finn Productions, Paul Kotula Projects Gallery
2020 UT Tyler Gallery, Texas State Faculty Exhibition, Tyler, TX
2020 The Interior, Selected work of Tyrone Guthrie Collection, traveling Cavan Gallery, Donegal +, Ireland
2020 Holkhuis (Modern House Restoration Project Collection) Group exhibition, Ann Arbor, MI
2020 Malinger Part 2, Solo, Bill Davenport's Optical Project Gallery, Houston, TX
2019 Limbic Songs, Curated by Cotter Luppi, Realeyes Gallery, North Adams, MA
2019 Summer, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2019 The Interior, Selected work of Tyrone Guthrie Collection, traveling Cavan Gallery, Donegal +, Ireland
2018 To Time, Paul Kotula Projects Gallery, Detroit, MI
2018 Der Greif, Ellen Bahr & Kathleen McShane, Germany
2018 Stealth Futura, Ghezzi, Humphries, McShane, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monahan Ireland
2018 Ikebana Zigurrat, Cohen Gallery, Alfred, NY
2017 Malingerer, Solo Show, Optical Projects, Bill Davenport Project, Houston, TX
2017 Island, Oasis, Mirage, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX
2017 Summer, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2016 Texas Draws IV Biennial, Rogers Gallery SSAC, San Antonio, TX
2016 Chronodrift, Lumber Room Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2016 Anonyme Zeichner Kunstverein Rüsselsheim, Russelheim, Germany
2015 Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, and Rome, Italy
2015 Gallery, Dime and Honey Gallery
2015 Print Publications, Gridspace Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Monoliths, Solo Show, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2014 Off Beige, SOFA Gallery, Austin, TX
2014 Bodies and Beasts, Schema Projects Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Hunting Prize Exhibit, Houston, TX
2013 Monsieurs Teste & Law Olmsted, solo show, GRIDSPACE Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Faculty Exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2012 Aleph, installation, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2012 Giving Time to Time, group show, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2012 Faculty Exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2011 Frameworks and Footholds, Public Art Project/Woodward Ave. billboard, Detroit, MI
2011 Artists Collect, Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2010 The Art of the Artists Book, Oakland University Gallery, Rochester, MI
2010 Re/Mark Drawings, Lamar Dodd Gallery, Athens, GA
2009 Boston Drawing Project Show, Joseph Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA
2009 Summer, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2008 Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2008 Fixity's Rainbow, solo show, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2008 Etch and Sketches, Arts Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2007 Group Drawing show, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2007 Cut, Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit, MI
2007 Grimpen Drawings, Bernard Toale Gallery (now Carroll and Sons Gallery), Boston, MA
2007 I'd Rather Be Drawing, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 Art on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2006 Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2006 Flat, Funk + Physical, Cazenovia Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
2005 Drawings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2005 -Scope New York, New York, NY
2005 Drawings, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2004 Night of a Thousand Drawings, Artists Space, NY, NY
2004 Gallery Joe, San Francisco Art Fair, CA
2003 Graphite, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Artist's Choice, Eyebeam (Bomb Magazine benefit exhibition), NY, NY
2002 Abstract Tendencies, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2002 Gallery Joe at Art Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2002 4 Drawing Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2002 ZineScene, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2001 Paper, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2001 Making the Making, Apex Art, New York, NY
2000 Basel Art Fair, George Billis Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2000 Pierogi Flatfiles, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Pierogi Flatfiles, Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
1999 Qwork, E. Herzog, M. Lum, J. Pepper, K. McShane, FEED Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Clarity of Seduction, Network Gallery, Detroit, MI
1999 Additives, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Agitating Utopia, CFA Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1998 little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 Five and Ten, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1997 Current UnderCurrents, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1997 NY Drawers, Gasworks Gallery, Manchester, England
1997 Do It, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1996 Books, Dana Gallery, Newark, NJ
1996 The Art Exchange Show, New York, NY
1996 Pieces of Nine, Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ
1995 Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Drawings, Artist's Space, New York, NY
1995 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, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1993–2000 (various) Draftsperson, assistant to artists Pat Steir and Sol LeWitt
Collections
James Rosenquist
Sarah and Werner Kramarsky
Entenmann Collection, Germany
Sol and Carol LeWitt
Weatherspoon Museum
McNay Museum
Portland Museum of Art
Mott Children's Hospital
Fidelity Investments
Susanne Hilberry
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland
Rose Art Museum
Publications
Glasstire, Solo show review, 2024
Art + Lit Laboratory, "Interview with Liz Rodda and Kathleen McShane", 2023
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 Detroit News, "Gallery Greats", 10/13/08
Meditations in an Emergency, Klaus Kertess, p.7, 2007
The Boston Globe, "Classical meets Contemporary", 10/11/07
The News and Observer, "Surprises unceasing", 1/19/07
Winston-Salem Journal, "A Profusion of Pleasure", 12/31/06
Drawing Papers 33, December 02, catalog for "Abstract Tendencies"
TimeOut New York magazine, "Making the Making", 2/1/01
The New Yorker, "Making the Making", 1/22/01
The New York Times, "Other Galleries", 1/26/01
artnet.com magazine, "Brooklyn Spice", 10/19/99