CATHERINE KEHOE
RADICAL ATTENTION  
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EXHIBITIONS

2013
Radical Attention, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Small is Big, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

2012
Small is Big, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington
Galvanized Truth, tribute to George Nick, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury Massachusetts

2011
Shipped and Shaped, Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 
The Difference Between Things, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2010
Zeuxis: The Common Object, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Peninsula Fine Art Center, Newport, News, Virginia; Prince Street Gallery, New York, New York; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

2009
Drawing Itself, A Survey of Contemporary Practice
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Pause: Contemporary Still Life
Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Unintended Consequences
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2007
Direct Descent, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Interface, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

2005
Head Count, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2004
Three Voices, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Flowers, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2003
Figurative Paintings, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC
Recent Paintings, Catherine Kehoe and Nancy McCarthy
Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
Introductions, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Georgetown International, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC

2002
Self-Portraits, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Barnet Rubenstein and His Legacy, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Grant Recipient Exhibition, St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts
George Nick Selects, Concord Art Association, Concord, Massachusetts

2001
Gallery Selections 2001, Barton-Ryan Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2000
Herself: Figures and Portraits, Barton-Ryan Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Gallery Selections 2000, Barton-Ryan Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1999
Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Still Life 1999, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1998
Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Zeuxis, Sherman Union Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Just Paint, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Zeuxis, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

1997
Salon Show, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Object Lessons, Mercy Gallery, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut
Room with a View, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

1996
Thresholds, Kohn, Pedersen, Fox, New York, New York
Still Fruit, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Out of the Ordinary, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Still Light, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York

1995
Women in the Visual Arts, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Still Life, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island

1994
Group show, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Woman, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
New England/New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

1993
Rosemarie Beck and Lois Dodd jurors, Bowery Gallery, New York, New York
New Art 92, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1992
Distinct Voices, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1991
Juried by Nell Blaine, Bowery Gallery, New York, New York

1990
Small Works 1990, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, New York
Boston Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

TEACHING
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island College, Providence, 2013 
Visiting Artist, Henry Radford Hope School of
Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington , 2012
The Head Examined — a portrait workshop, Art New England Workshops,Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 2012
Things and the Space Between, a still-life workshop, 2012
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts
The Figure Dressed, a painting workshop, Summer 2012, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
Visiting Artist, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 2012
Visiting Artist, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 2012
The Difference Between Things, a still-life workshop, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, Connecticut
Representational Painting, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, Assistant Professor, 2011-2012
Throwing Light on the Figure, Jerusalem Studio School, Certosa di Pontignano, 2011
The Difference Between Things: a still-life workshop, Art New England at Bennington College, 2011
The Head Examined: a portrait workshop,Art New England at Bennington College, 2010
Direct Translation: a painting workshop, Art New England at Bennington College, 2009
Visual Arts Drawing, Boston University School of Visual Arts, 2008
Painting from Observation, Painting the Figure, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, Assistant Professor, Continuing Education, 2006-present
Color and Light, still-life workshop at South Shore Art Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts
Mentor to graduate students in MFAWC program (Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Master of Fine Arts, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, 2006-2007)
Visiting artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2006, 
Visiting artist, College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, 2007

EDUCATION
1992 School of Visual Arts, Boston University,
MFA in painting
1989 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BFA in painting,
with distinction
1988 Yale School of Art, Norfolk

AWARDS
2012 
Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant
2006
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2003
Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust Grant
2002
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, Finalist, Painting
2001
Blanche E. Colman Award
2000
St. Botolph Club Foundation Award
Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts Award
1996
Blanche E. Colman Award
1992
Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Award

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McQuaid, Cate, "Drawing on lost memories,"
The Boston Globe, March 1, 2007
Rollins, Ron, " ‘Three Voices’ unites female painters at Wright State," Dayton Daily News, November 7, 2004
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ArtsMEDIA, April 15-May 15, 2002
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Art in America, February, 2002
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McQuaid, Cate, "Highlights of year’s shows recall myriad artistic voices,"The Boston Globe, December 28, 2002
Day, Meredith Fife, "Catherine Kehoe: Herself,"
Art New England, April/May 2001
Garvey, Thomas, "Nature’s unnatural turns,"
ArtsMEDIA, Winter, 2000
Cohen, Joyce, "Just Paint,"
Art New England, August/September, 1998
Hill, Shawn, "By the light of day — and night,"
Bay Windows, July 3, 1996
Fletcher, Nina "Drawn with freedom and discipline," Worcester Magazine, June 1, 1994
Temin Christine, "Drawing on Diversity at the Cyclorama," The Boston Globe, September 14, 1990