Kathryn Spence

BORN

1963 Stuttgart, Germany

EDUCATION

1993 MFA Mills College, Oakland, Ca
1986 BFA University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Objects & Drawings, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Drawings and Object, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Objects and Drawings, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 New Work, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Recent Works, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2001 Leavings, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2000 New Works, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Wild, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1997 Pigeons, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Objects and Photographs, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 Beast, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX
2005 48th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
         Terra Firma, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
         Rrose Sélvay, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Live Forever or Die Trying, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
         Three Squares, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
         Drawings, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
         For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, CT
         Hard Candy, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CT
2003 The Not-So-Still-Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose
         Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
         Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
         Animality, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin City, New Zealand
         LA Unplugged, LA International, Los Angeles, CA
         Not So Cute and Cuddly, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
2002 Transcending Envy, Awe, and Loathing, (The Bird Show), Sonoma State
         University, CA
         The Miniature Show, Graystone, San Francisco, CA
2001 Wonderland, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
         Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to the Permanent Collection,
         San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2000 Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco
         Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
         Bestiary, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
         The Munchie Munchie, DiverseWorks ArtSpace, Houston, TX
1999 Skin-Deep: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum,
         Jerusalem, Israel
         1999 Biennial Exhibition, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
         Meaning and Message: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection,
         The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
         Growing Up Post Modern, University Galleries, Illinois State University,
         Normal, IL
1998 Art from Around the Bay: Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of
         Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
         Animal as Muse, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
         Outside/Inside, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, San Francisco Museum of Modern
         Art, San Francisco, CA
         Bay Area Now, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
         Eureka Fellowship Awards, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
         Committee’s Choice, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
1995 Bay Area Awards Show, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1994 Next to Nothing, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS

2005 ‘Anonymous Was a Woman’ Grant
2002 Art Council Award
1998 Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
         Arts Achievement Award, San Francisco Magazine
1996 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation
1995 Honorarium, Bay Area Award Show, New Langton Arts
1993 Jay DeFeo Award, Mills College

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006 Baker, Ken. “Spence’s Spooky Things of Rags and Patches,” San Francisco
         Chronicle, May 20.
         Dawsey, Jill. “Kathryn Spence,” Artforum.com, May.
         Swanhuyser, Hiya. “Birds Watching: Kathryn Spence’s conglomerations,”
         SFWeekly, May 24.
         Berry, Colin. Artweek
2006 Golonu, Berin. “Kathryn Spence: Objects and Drawings at Stephen Wirtz Gallery,”
         Shotgun Review, August 14.
2005 King, Elaine A. “Closer to Home,” Corcoran 48th Biennial,
         Sculpture Magazine, pp. 72,
         Lawrence, Sidney. “Uncorked,” Artnet Magazine, June 9.
         Gopnik, Black. “The Everyday, Turned on Edge,” The Washington Post,
         March 19
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         Pomeranz, Judy. “Familiar Surrounds,” Elan Magazine
2004 Gilbert, Rick, Kathryn Spence at Carl Berg, Artweek, March
2003 Baker, Kenneth, Sculptor’s mud lumps unearth humanity in the lowly boulder,
         San Francisco Chronicle, April 26, page D-10
         Smith, Charmian, Impressions, Otago Daily Times Newspaper New Zealand,
         June 19, p. 31
2002 Cash, Stephanie, Report from San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving, Art in
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2001 Estes, David, Spence’s work challenges consumerism, The Ithaca Journal, April12
         Rushworth, Katherine, Reclaiming the discarded, Syracuse Herald-American,
         Stars Magazine, April 22
         Sherman, Mary, MCA Creates a ‘Wonderland’, Boston Sunday Herald,
         January 28
         Temin, Christine, Mass Art’s ‘Wonderland’ brings fairy tales to life, The Boston Globe,
         January 30
2000 Baker, Kenneth, Sculptor’s simple ideas take flight, San Francisco Chronicle,
         October 14, page B-1
         Bonetti, David, Charting 35 Years of California Art, San Francisco Examiner,
         January 6, page B-8
         Davis, Amanda, Kathryn Spence: Wild, Sculpture, January/February
         Helfand, Glen, Critics Choice: Kathryn Spence, The San Francisco Bay
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         Collection at the Oakland Museum, Artweek, February
         Schutz, Catherine, Contemporary and Bold at Oakland Museum.
1999 Campbell, Deborah Dickson, Uncaged Animals, Pitch Weekly, August 5
         Cohn, Terri, Earthly Delights: Eleven Artists Get Their Hands Dirty,
         Artweek, February
1999 Curtis, Cathy, Method, Madness, Los Angeles Times, February 24, Page F1
         Curtis, Cathy, Formal boundaries take some life from ‘Biennial’, Los
         Angeles Times, March 2, page F 12
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         Hamlin, Jesse, Show at de Young, Yerba Buena reflect diversity and history,
         San Francisco Chronicle, November 14
         Jones, Chris, Trash is artists treasure, Daily Oklahoman, August 8
         The Kansas City Star, July 30, page 17
         Kansas City Home Design, October/November
         Kelsey, Chris, Wildlife, Ms., Vol. IX no. 5, August/September, page 81
         Krueger, Michael, Kathryn Spence, Kendall Buster, New Art Examiner,
         December/January, page 59
         McTavish, Brian, Prime Picks, Kansas City Star, July 29
         Mendenhall, Lauri, Projects for pleasure, Coast Orange County, April
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         PitchWeekly, August 12
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         Thorson, Alice, Lines of sites, suitors and animals, Kansas City Star, August 6
         Toivanen, Kati, Constructed gestures: Kendall Buster, Kathryn Spence, ART,
         September
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         February 14
         Wolgamott, L. Kent, Down and Dirty in KC, Lincoln Journal Star, August 8
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         Skin deep: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art.
         Catalog published by Orange County Museum of Art to accompany exhibition
         1999 Biennial
         Brochure to accompany Wild at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art with
         Essay by Dana Self.
1998 Bonansinga, Kate, Gerbode museum purchase awards announced, ArtWeek
         November
         Grundberg, Andy, Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, ArtForum February
         Helfand, Glen, Aiming for the stars: The 1998 Arts Achievement Awards,
         San Francisco Magazine, February
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         Hunt, David, Cityscape San Francisco, Flash Art, May-June, Vol. XXXI, no 200
         Laffer, Christine, Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, Art Papers
         March/April, Vol 22, Issue 2
         Nelson, Gayle, Where is Teddy now? Siren, March
         Schumacher, Donna, San Francisco: Kathryn Spence, Stephen Wirtz Gallery,
         Sculpture, March
         Sjostrom, Jan, Exalted, abuses, among us: Animals inspire Norton Exhibit,
         Daily News, June 4, Vol. 102, no. 247
1997 Baker, Kenneth, Nine Artists’ Lessons of Recalling the Past in “Present Tense’,
         San Francisco Chronicle, September 13
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         June 13
         Bonetti, David, Sculptor makes it to SFMOMA, San Francisco Examiner,
         August 31
         Bonetti, David, Art at the millennium, San Francisco Examiner, September 11
         Forrest, Jason, Bay area now, Art Papers, November/December
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         San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
         Bay Area Now, Exhibition catalog published Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena
         Gardens, San Francisco, CA
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         Berk, Amy, San Francisco Fax, Art Issues, January/February
1995 Baker, Kenneth, Award show at New Langton Arts, San Francisco Chronicle,
         October 31
         Sorensen, AnneLise, 2nd Annual Bay Area Awards Show, SF Live, October 15-
         November 15
1994 de Guzman, Rene, Next to nothing, Exhibition catalog at Center for the Arts at
         Yerba Buena Gardens
         Porges, Maria, Report from San Francisco, Sculpture, November/December

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Microsoft Art Collection
Oakland Museum of California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Jose Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art