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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Kate Kern
Bio
Kate Kern, an interdisciplinary visual artist, uses drawing, artists’ books, installations and other media to create immersive work. She is the recipient of a FY2019 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for her series of installations: Calling and Ordinary Time. Her solo exhibition, Calling, at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH) featured her first stop-motion animation, The Night is Dark and the House is Dark. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she received a BFA from the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio and an MFA in drawing from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work can be found in collections including: The Akron Art Museum, The Cincinnati Art Museum, The Getty Research Institute, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Franklin Furnace /MOMA Artist Book Collection, MOMA library, and the Artists’ Book Collections of Carnegie Mellon University, University of Cincinnati, Brown University and others.
Artist Statement
My work is an invitation into the layered experience of temporal beauty, memory and loss that makes up everyday human life. It is inspired by an exploration of the seen and unseen and an awareness of the divine in daily living expressed through equal measures of playfulness, compulsion, jubilance and sorrow.