Kathryn Lynch has an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and has received fellowships to Skowhegan, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Foundation and The Vermont Studio Center; 2018 NYFSCA/NYFA artist Fellow in Painting. Born in Philadelphia, lives and works in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
With expressive brushwork and a simple color palette, Kathryn Lynch’s paintings are candid and sparse in detail as she aims to express the essence of her environment. Lynch relies on her memory of the moment to turn images of the mundane into beautiful scenes. Focusing on singular moments, she first sketches the scene before later depicting it in oil paint when the image feels right. Lynch has exhibited in shows across the United States and her work is in public and private collections, including that of corporations like Microsoft and Pfizer.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Searspeyton, Gallery, NYC, Far Away Home,
2017 Spoonbill Series curated by Madeleine Mermall, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Sears Peyton, New York, NY
Tayloe Piggot Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY 2015 Up at Night, Senaspace, New York, NY
Maine, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Tug Tug, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY
2013 Kathryn Lynch, A Silent Language, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY la vie en tugboat, Senaspace, New York, NY
The Little Gallery, Sharon Springs, NY
2012 Kathryn Lynch, Dogs, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2011 River Tugs, Tayloe Piggot Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming
2010 Kathryn Lynch, Choppy Waters, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Kathryn Lynch, Her Days and Nights, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY ARC LLC FIne Art, Ct.
2008 Kathryn Lynch, Her Days and Nights, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Nina Freudenheim, Inc. Buffalo, NY
2005 Kathryn Lynch, Paintings: The City, Alysia Duckler, Porland Oregon
2004 Kathryn Lynch, Painting the Town, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA 2002 Alysia Duckler Portland, Oregon
1996 Charles Cowles, project room, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Pamilla Salisbury Gallery, Hudson NY 8 x 10
2019 Color Forms, Curated by Michael Klein, Red Barn, Stamfordville, NY
Platform Projects, New York Just Like I Pictured It”, Brooklyn, NY
Searspeyton Gallery, LA
Turn Gallery, 2 person show,“stars in our pockets”Kathryn Lynch/Paul Inglis, NYC The Drawing Room Gallery, Winter Salon, Easthampton, NY
2018 The Drawing Room Gallery, The Spirit of Place, Easthampton, NY IlleArts, Dogs,Amagansett,NY
Searspeyton, LA
2017 Michael Klein, In My Garden, NY, NY Searspeyton, LA
The Drawing Room, Easthampton, NY Arc Fine Art, Ct
The Gallery@1Gap, Brooklyn, NY
2016 The Drawing Room, Autumn Salon, Easthampton, NY Drishti, 1285 Avenue of the Americas
2015 City Lives, Shirley Fiterman Center, curated by Michael Klein, New York, NY Sara Nightingale, Watermill, NY, Making History at Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Arts in Bushwick
2014 Metro Art Fair, Michael Klein Arts, New York, NY Animalia, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2013 Southampton Art Fair, Michael Klein Arts, Southampton, NY Summer Group Show, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Miami Art Fair, Landfall Press, Miami, FL
Red Dot Fair, Miami, FL
2012 Aspects of a New Realism, Arthur Rodger Gallery, curated by Michael Klein, New Orleans, LA
2011 Black and White, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Incongruent Sum, 111 Leroy St. Catalogue available Super Nature, 4North Gallery, Southampton, NY
Pulse Art Fair, Sears Peyton Gallery, LA
Summer Group Show, Sears Peyton, New York, NY
2010 Bedlam, Bank Iran, 111 Leroy Street, New York, NY
Pretty Vacant, Brooklyn Art Studios and Yashar Gallery, Gowanus, NY
The Big Show, Marsden Gallery, Bridgehampton
Johnnie Boden, Sag Harbor, NY
Sweetness & Light and Where there's smoke, U. Mass Amherst Fine Arts Center, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA
2008 The Big Apple, Ken Jones Jr., Easton, PA
2007 Nina Freudenheim, Inc., paintings selected by Nina Freudenheim, Buffalo, NY Recent History, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, works of the 70's, 80's and 90's selected by Michael Klein, New York, NY
2003 New Works on Paper, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
2002 Catch a Fish, Glenn Horowitz, East Hampton, NY
'Artists to Artists' A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY-
2001 Beyond the Mountains, the Contemporary American Landscape, Curated by Michael Klein traveled to Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL;
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, TN;
Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, CT-catalogue 2000 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA 1999 Emerging Artists, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
24/7, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY-catalogue
1996 Kathryn Lynch, Project Room, Charles Cowles, New York, NY Of Land and Sea, Elaine Benson, Bridge Hampton, NY
New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Five Artists over Five Decades, William Smith College, Geneva, NY New Work, Black & Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
New Painting, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1993 Five Women Painters, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
1992 New Generation Artists, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
New Faces-New energy, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
56th National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Thirty-Third Juried Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum, New York, NY
1991 Fifteenth Annual Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Artists of West Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Inhabited Places, University City Arts League Gallery, Philadelphia, PA