Bio
Kate Teale lives and works in New York City. Born in England, she received her B.A. at Oxford University; her Painting Diploma at City and Guilds of London Art School and her MFA at C.U.N.Y. Hunter College. Kate’s first solo show in New York City was at Spring Gallery in SoHo in 1996. Recent exhibitions include: Monya Rowe Gallery, Chelsea NYC; Jim Kempner Gallery, Chelsea NYC; AIR Gallery NYC; ‘Keeping It Real’, at Richmond Center for the Arts, Kalamazoo; and she has had solo shows at Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, NYC; Hampden Gallery, UMASS, Amherst and Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia. Work can also be seen at Pierogi Gallery flat files, Brooklyn. Kate teaches at Parsons School of Design, and has also taught at Pratt Institute, Hunter College, and Yale (Graduate drawing, School of Architecture). Kate was a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow in Painting 2008. She is founder/director of Big&Small/Casual Gallery in Long Island City www.bigandsmallcasual.net.
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Awards
2008 NYFA Fellow in Painting
1994 Major project grants from Southern Arts, Hampshire County & Portsmouth City Councils, UK
1992 Winston Churchill International Travel Fellowship, UK
Solo shows
2003 Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art, 149 Reade St. New York, NY
2001 Hampden Gallery, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, MASS
1998 First New York: Staff Gallery. 495 Broadway, New York, NY.
1997 Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia.
1996 Spring Gallery, 149 Spring St, New York, NY.
1994 Square Tower, Portsmouth, England.
1992 1 Main St Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
Group shows
2011 Drawn Storefront, Bushwick, NY
Its All Good Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Exit Art Benefit, Exit Art, NYC, NY
2010 Its a Wonderful 10th Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Both Sides of the Pulaski curated by Andrea Salerno, LIC, NY
Exit Art Benefit, Exit Art, NYC, NY
2009 Group show at Jim Kempner Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2008 Same Old, Same New curated by Jane Harris. Monya Rowe Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
On, Of and About Paper Orange Cty Center for Contemporary Art, CA
NYFA award winners exhibition Parsons galleries, NYC.
PaperWorks The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA (prizewinner)
2007 Keeping It Real curated by Jerry Kearns with Sean Mellyn, Jane Dickson and others.
Traveling museum show, opening at Richmond Center for the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI.
2006 ID Check the Lab Gallery, NYC. April.
2004 Group Show Greer Art Museum, Rio Grande, Ohio
2003 Kate Teale & David Henderson Parker Gallery, Fort Lee, NJ
2001 About Paper Kristen Frederickson Contemporary Art. 147 Reade St. New York, NY
1999 Choices ‘99. Exit Art, 548 Broadway, New York, NY. Chosen by Jerry Kearns.
Culturama Gen Art. 135 W18th Street, New York, NY.
London Art Fair with NYLON Gallery, Contemporary Art Center, London, U.K
1998 Drawings Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia.
1997 Text & Touch with Kiki Smith, Roni Horn, Lesley Dill, Carolee Schneeman,
Kathleen Kucka, Cathleen Lewis, Brenna Bierne and others, Hunter Galleries, NYC
1996 College Arts Association Show represented Hunter MFA, New York, NY
Spring Spring Gallery, 149 Spring St, SoHo, New York, NY
1995 The Human Form Winchester Contemporary Art, Winchester, England.
1994 Rexel/Derwent International Drawing Open Cheltenham, England.
1993 777 Simultaneous exhibition in Amsterdam, Bratislava, Denmark, Dusseldorf, Moscow, Portsmouth and Reykjavik.
Reviews and publications
12/02 Art News and Art on Paper for ‘About Paper’
2001 ‘Up & Coming: An Inside Guide to the Emerging Art Scene’
11/99 Time Out New York \'Choices \'99\', Exit Art, NYC
11/99 New York Art Magazine \'Choices \'99\'
11/97 Review Magazine \'Text and Touch\', Hunter Galleries, NYC
11/97 Art Papers ‘Text and Touch’
5/97 Philadelphia Enquirer \'Natural Histories\', Yearsley Spring Gallery, PA
Critical writing
1996 Contemporary Art Magazine ‘Leon Golub’ feature article
1995 Contemporary Art Magazine ‘John Virtue’ feature article
Curating
2009 - Founder/Director of Big&Small/Casual Gallery, Long Island City
Matt Freedman’s TwinTwin III, Artists Edition 9/11/09
Big, Small and Casual: Sculpture by Mary Carlson, paintings by Laura Newman
Floating Room by Kristine Marx and Fluorescent Phase by Nicedisc 1/29/10
The Haphazard Color Machine by Ken Devine and Plasmodial Voids by Caroline Cox
Works on Paper 5/21/10 (70 artists)
Inland with Christian Legendre, Sonita Singwi, Alistair Teale and Rachel Urkowitz
6 Who Paint with Jimbo Blachly, David Brody, Deborah Brown, Michael Chandler, Jane Dickson and Loren Monk curated by Fred Valentine
From Our Permanent Recollection Babara Friedman and Roger Sayre
Public Collections
Southern Arts Permanent Collection, Russell Coats Museum, Bournemouth, England.
Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth, England.
National Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Education
1998 MFA Painting. Hunter College, New York, NY
1988 3 yr Diploma, Art, City and Guilds of London Art School, England.
1984 MA (Oxon), English Literature. Oxford University, England.
Catalogs
2010 Inland Big&Small/Casual Gallery, NYC
2001 Kate Teale Patterns of Pleasure and Models of the Mind. Univ Massachusetts, Amherst.
1996 Spring Catalog, NYC
1993 777 Catalog
Employment (selected)
2002 - now Assistant Professor, Foundation Drawing. Parsons School of Design.
2005 - 08 Adjunct Professor, Foundation Drawing. Pratt Institute.
2001 - 4 Adjunct Professor in Graduate Drawing, Yale School of Architecture
2003 & 4 Drawing Professor, Yale School of Architecture, Grad. Summer program in Rome
Collectors (selected)
CUNY, Hunter College, New York
Susan Horte, New York
John Curran & Kristen Frederickson New York
Michael Steinberg, New York
Knight Landesman, New York
Susan Penzner, New York
Jo Anne Alter, New York
Avril Sergeon, New York
Staff USA, New York
Arthur Cantor, New York
Michael Formica, New York