KATHARINE KREISHER

 www.katharinekreisher.com     kreisherk@hartwick.edu 

 

Professor of Art

Department of Art & Art History, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY       

 

EDUCATION:

University at Albany, SUNY, M.A. 1981. M.F.A. 1986. Printmaking and photo-related     processes. Studied with Phyllis Galembo, Thom OÕConnor and Robert Cartmell.

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, B.S. 1971. Studio Art.

  

TEACHING:

Hartwick College. (1982-present) photography (Ô82 -present) printmaking (Ô82 –Ô92)        chair (Ô92-Ô99). named Arkell Hall Foundation Endowed Chair in the Arts /       Professor of Art (2008-11)

 

EXHIBITIONS:

 

¥   Selected Solo / 2-Person:

Dietel Gallery Emma Willard School, Troy NY ÒKatharine Kreisher: So Far, So GoodÓ    2012.

RioBravoFineArt ,Truth or Consequences, NM, ÒKatharine Kreisher: Dream Desert,Ó          2011.

Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pa, ÒKatharine Kreisher: Meeting My Selves,Ó 2011.

The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY, ÒKatharine  Kreisher: Sense of Self,Ó 2009 .

The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, ÒKatharine Kreisher: Everything In     Its Place,Ó 2009.

Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, ÒKatharine Kreisher: Circles of         Confusion,Ó 2008.

Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA, ÒKatharine Kreisher and Rebecca Rome,Ó     2008

Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY, "Observation/Introspection: Sylvia de Swaan and            Katharine Kreisher," 1989.

Inskirts Gallery, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, "Books and        Photographs: Barbara Rowe and Katharine Kreisher," 1986.

 

¥   Selected Group:

PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, NY,  ÒLooking Back: The Art of Nostalgia,Ó juror:           MaryAnn Lynch, 2013 (catalogue).

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY:

ÒCentral New York Artists: 62nd Exhibition,Ó juror  Susan Stoops, 2010. (catalogue)

ÒCentral New York Artists: 61st Exhibition,Ó jurors Thomas Piche, Jr and Marion          Wilson, 2008. (catalogue)

"Photography: 53rd Annual Artists of Central New York State", juror Andrea Modica,            1990. (catalogue)

"Photographers of Upstate New York,Ó juror Nathan Lyons, 1979.                                                                               

Northlight Gallery, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe,         AZ, ÒDiverse Views: The WomenÕs Caucus of the Society for Photographic           Education,Ó curators Liz Allen and Betsy Fahlman, 2008.

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY, ÒSNAP!Ó,      Contemporary Photography by Sally Apfelbaum, Nora Herting, Katharine         Kreisher, Melinda McDaniel and Lynn Saville, curator Rachel Seligman, 2008             (catalogue).  

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY,     "The Material Image: Surface and Substance in Photography," curator Beth E.         Wilson from the permanent collection, 2005.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY:

            ÒOnce Upon A Time: When The Fairy Tale Ends,Ó curator Colleen Kenyon, 2003.     (article in Center Quarterly)

            Ô1989 Photographers' Fund Recipients: Will Faller, Debra Goldman, Katharine            Kreisher," 1989.

pARTS, Minneapolis, MN, ÒRoger Mertin, December 1943 – 7 May 2001: A Collective             Tribute Vision,Ó curators George Slade, JoAnn Verburg, 2002. 

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, "Hair," curator Alison Ferris, (artist    residency during exhibition) 1992-93. (catalogue)

International Traveling Exhibition, ÒDiamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on           BaseballÓ, curator Peter Gordon of New York State Museum in Albany with        Sydney Waller and Paul Weinman  for Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.,        1987-92.

University Art Museum, Albany, NY, "The Transfiguration," curator Andrew    Boardman, 1994.   

            "Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region," juror Linda Shearer, (two purchase   prizes) 1991.

Albany Institute of History and Art and Rice Gallery

            ÒSmall and Seductive: Contemporary Art from the InstituteÕs Collection,Ócurator                      W. Douglas McCombs, 2014.

            "Interplay," jurors Karen Dorsky and Stephen Frankel (award winner), 1990.

            "Place, Process, Product," curator Janice Dorgan, 1988.

            "Introspection" curator Janis Dorgan /"Facing Portraits" curator Tammis Groft,                (concurrent exhibitions),1994.

92nd St Y, NY, NY, "Altered Photographs" with Katharine Kreisher, Judith Mohns and         Ann Marie Rousseau, 1989.

Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NY, NY, ÒNew Developments: Contemporary American            Photography,Ó selected by Larry Fink and Marilyn Bridges for Center for           Photography at Woodstock, 1986.

Rensselaer County Council for the Arts, Troy, NY, "Partial Disclosures," with    Katharine Kreisher, Gay Malin, Corinna Ripps, 1986.

Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY and Gallery 53, Cooperstown,         NY, ÒGender and GestureÓ (nine women artists), curator Sydney Waller, (panelist    at Colgate University Symposium on Women in the Arts), 1985-6. (catalogue)

The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA, "Women Photographers in       America," (Artweek review) 1984.                         

University of Colorado at Denver, "Arboretum," curator Sandy Hume, 1983.

 

SELECTED PROJECTS/ PUBLICATIONS:

Photo Review competition web portfolio, ÒExteriorsÓ 2014http://www.photoreview.org/competition/portfolioFull.php/52/1/3

Society for Photographic Education national conference, ÒConferring          Significance: Celebrating PhotographyÕs Continuum,Ó panel ÒThe   Feedback Loop of Contemporary Feminisms: Teaching, Learning, and          MakingÓ with Ann Kaplan, Patricia Lois Nuss, Laurie Schorr, and Marcia           Vaitsman, Chicago IL 2013.

ÒFacing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts,Ó panel ÒSelf             as Object: Perspectives of IdentityÓ with Tulu Bayar, Amber Johnston, Suzanne             Szucs and M. Laine Wyatt, Philadelphia PA, 2010.

Focal Press textbook, ÒElements of PhotographyÓ by Angela Faris Belt, 2008 and   2011.

Society for Photographic Education national conference ÒPhotography and           Place,Ó panel, ÒHome and Away: Roger MertinÕs JourneysÓ with Jeffrey Hoone         and George Slade , Newport RI, 2004.

NYSCA Grants (New York State Council on the Arts) through Upper Catskill Community             Council for the Arts, Oneonta: Decentralization grants (1988 and 1990) and SOS             grants (2001, 2003, 2007, 2009).

Print commission,  Lake George Arts Project Collectors Club, curator Juli Courtney,            1992-3. (intaglio edition of 100, ÒTicking,Ó printed at Round House Press,       Hartwick College)

BOMB Magazine, NY, NY, 1989. (archives going on-line 2013)

Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Residencies, January 1988 and 2013.

 

COLLECTIONS:

Center for Photography at Woodstock (housed at Dorsky Museum, SUNY New         Paltz)

Albany Institute of History and Art

University Museum, SUNY Albany

Quay School of Art (UCOL), Wanganui, New Zealand

Hartwick College

Pinhole Resource Center, San Lorenzo NM (housed at New Mexico History Museum, Palace of Governors, Santa Fe, NM)

 

Some links on Hartwick website :

http://www.hartwick.edu/news/news-archive-new/ed-newman-04-22-13

http://www.hartwick.edu/news/news-archive-new/kreisher-lycoming-exhibit-1-12-11

http://www.hartwick.edu/news/news-archive-new/kreisher-fls-09-13-10

http://www.hartwick.edu/news/news-archive-new/kreisher-canajoharie-show-10-22-09

http://www.hartwick.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/arts-and-humanities/art-and-art-history-home/art-and-art-history-faculty/katharine-kreisher

 

A link to Kreisher images in Pinhole Resource Pinhole collection at Palace of Governors, Santa Fe, NM:

http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm/search/collection/pinhole/searchterm/katharine%20kreisher/order/title

 

A link to Joan FenicleÕs article in ABQArts about Kreisher images:

http://abqa.elzalive.com/content/photo-editorÕs-choice-katharine-kreisher-pushes-boundaries-photography

 

Link to Kreisher Flickr Account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/101634859@N05/