Katherine Bernhardt
b. 1975, St Louis, MO
Lives and works in New York
Education
2000 MFA School of Visual Arts, NY, NY
1998 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
NYU Summer Intensive Program
International School of Art in Umbria
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 DONE WITH XANAX, Canada, New York, NY
2019 Big in Japan, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan
Garfield on Scotch Tape, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
GOLD, Art OMI, New York, NY
2018 Watermelon World, Mario Testino Museum (MATE), Lima, Peru
GREEN, CANADA, New York, NY
2017 Swatches, Karma, Amagansett, NY
Mural, Project Wall, St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Focus: Katherine Bernhardt, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Concrete Jungle Jungle Love, Lever House Art Collection, New York, NY
2016 Product Recall: New Pattern Paintings, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Strawberry Banana Power Smoothie, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
Pablo and Efrain, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Fruit Salad, Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Doritos and Diet Coke, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Stupid, Crazy, Ridiculous, Funny Patterns, CANADA, NY, New York
2013 Watermelon, Smiley Faces, Ice Cream, Popsicles, Avocado and Sun,
Roberto Paradise, San Juan Puerto Rico
Holiday Services, Katherine Bernhardt and Youssef Jdia, The Hole, NYC, NY
2012 Nomad, Loyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
2011 Rites of Spring Passage, Carbon 12, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2010 Hot Pop Time Machine, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tombouctou 52 Jours, CANADA, New York, NY
Lila Dit Ca, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
2009 Super Models and Swatch Watches, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Wonder Women, Carbon 12, Dubai
2008 Greeky, Ransom, London, UK
Kate, Giselle, Natalia, Agyness, Simon, Kanye and George, CANADA, New York
2007 Drunken Hot Girls, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris France
Kiss Me Kate, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Black White Silver Gold Baby, installation with CHANEL and New York
Magazine, CHANEL 64th and Madison Avenue, NY, New York
2006 La Dolce Vita, Galeria Glance, Torino, Italy
Flesh for Fantasy, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Girls on Film, Cannes, France
Budapest, The Gellert Hotel, 10:15pm, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
Winter Special Crazy Fun, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
2005 96 Degrees in the Shade, CANADA, New York
Women of the Forest, Greener Pastures Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Where the Spirits Dwell, Galeria Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004 Pleasure and Paint, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
2003 Dots, Team Gallery, New York
Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary, New York
2001 Team Gallery
Modern Culture at The Gershwin Hotel, New York
2000 Team Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Jewish Museum, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2019 WHAT HAVE WE DONE? 15th Annual Thanksgiving Collective, Tripoli Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Canada b/w Drag City, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL
GARDEN, Shrine, New York, NY
Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong, R & Company, New York, NY; curated by Raquel Cayre
MSD _ Make something different _ global POP wave in the 21st century, CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Downtown Painting, Presented by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, New York, NY
Girl Meets Girl, Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2018 Pizza is God, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017 Unobstructed Views, Library Street Collective & MoCAD, Hawkins Ferry House,
Grosse Point Shores, MI
Reinventing the Figure, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Animal Farm, curated by Sadie Laska, Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, curated by Eric Fischl, Hall Art Foundation,
Reading, VT
A New Subjectivity, curated by Jason Stopa, Pratt Manhattan, NY
Black & White, Tripoli Gallery, Southhampton, New York
Drawing Island, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2016 What's Up 2.0, Curated by Lawrence van Hagen, London, UK
Fort Greene curated by Adrianne Rubenstein, Venus over Los Angeles, CA
Manifesta 11: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Piston Head II: Artists Engage the Automobile, Venus LA, Los Angeles, CA
Goulding the Lolly, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY
The 5th of July, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Make Painting Great Again, CANADA, NY
2015 No Man's Land, Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as Universalism, Curated by Robin Peckham
and Wanwan Lei, M Woods, Beijing, China
Tiger Tiger, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY
#crowded house, Harper's Books, NY
Painting 1,2,3, Kate Macgarry, London, UK
Call and Response, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY
Eagles II, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
2014 Early Man, The Hole, New York, NY
New Image Painting, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Live and Let Die, Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London, UK
PURPLE STATES & Cafe Dancer Pop-Up, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Don't Look Now, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Paint New York, Kunstforeningen Gl Strand in Copenhagen
All That Glitters, Curated by Athena Barat and Rebecca Jampol, The Gateway
Project, Newwark, New Jersey
2013 Chicken or Beef?, The Hole, New York, NY
Independants, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gestures, V1 Gallery, Colta, Basel, Switzerland
Work, Klaus Von Nichtssagand, NY, New York
The Triumph of Human Painting, Bull and Ram, NY, New York
Skateboards, Curated by Brian Alfred, Artware Editions, NY, New York
Extravagant Features, Curated by Clarissa Darlymple, NY, New York
Pin up Magazine Design Wee, Salon94, NY, New York
Cloth Made More Interesting by People, Feature, NY, New York
2012 I glove U, Reynolds Gallery, New York, NY
You Won’t be Bored Tonight, V.1 Copenhagen, Denmark
Bernhardt, Frost, Kitaj, Rivers, Schumann, Williams, Marlborough Gallery, NYC
Twisted Sister, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
Material: A Group Show, Salon 94, Freemans Alley, New York, NY
Danger Curve Ahead, Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
The State, Domination Hegemony and the Panopticon, Traffic, Dubai, UAE
East West Shift to the Middle Part #1, Bill Brady/ KC, Kansas City, KS
2011 Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Chris Martin, Andrew
Masullo and Judith Scott, Mitchell Innes and Nash, New York, NY
Day of the Locust, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
go figure, curated by Eddie Martinez, Dodge Gallery, NYC
An Instance of Vibration, curated by Peter Makebish, Bowery Hotel, NYC
The Influentials, curated by Amy Smith Stewart, SVA Gallery, NYC
I Am Who I Am, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
FACEMAKER, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
2010 The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Carbon12, Dubai, UAE
Paint, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Collection 3, Painting and Drawing from the Collection of Claudine and Jean
Mark Collection, Foundation Salomon, France
2009 New York Minute, curated by Kathy Grayson, Macro Future, Rome, Italy
Spaced Out / On Time, CANADA, New York, NY
Teasers and Pleasers, Galerie Kussseneers, Antwerp, Belgium
Sneak Preview, Carbon12, Dubai UAE
Marilyn in the Arts, Stadtische Gallery Schloss Meersberg, Germany
Brooklyn, Queens, Curated by Eddie Martinez, The Journal, Brooklyn, New York
Deadliest Catch: Hamptons, curated by Michael Sellinger, Southampton, NY
Hard/Soft, Curated by Stacy Engman, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2007 Prelude, Julie Chae Gallery, Boston, MA
Someday Never Comes, Zeiher Smith, New York, NY
Wu-Tang / googolplex, curated by Darren Bader, GBE @ Passerby, New York
Group Show curated by Eddie Martinez, Zeiher Smith, New York M*A*S*H, curated by
Amy Smith Stewart and Omar Lopez-Chahoud, The Helena, New York, NY
Space is a Place, Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts, Portland, Oregon
M.A.S.H. Curated by Amy Stewart Smith and Omar Lopez Chahoud, THe Helena, NY, NY
Group Show curated by Jason Duvall, Kathleen Cullen, New York, NY
The Galleries Show, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp Belgium
Modern Primitivism, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
(Cana) Rico ?, Galeria Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Men, curated by Ellen Altfest, I-20 Gallery, New YorkPaint, Power, Triangles and Selections
from My Wardrobe, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Frisky Flaming Hot, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ulrich Museum of Art, curated by General Store, Wichita, KS
Group Show, Salon 94, curated by Bronwyn Keenan in conjunction with Bono and
Fashion Week, New York
In Search of Love & Fire, David Castillo Modern & Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2005 Hello Sunday, curated by Holly Coulis, SixtySeven, New York
The Early Show, curated by The General Store, White Columns, New York
Manhattan, curated by Carol Lee, 100 Lafayette, New York
Monster Painting, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Honeymoon with Romeo, curated by Holly Coulis, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Diamond Hand grenade, Midway Contemporary, St. Paul, MN
New York’s Finest, CANADA, New York, NY, curated by Brendan Cass
and Wallace Whitney
2004 4 Color Pen Show, General Store, Milwaukee, WI
Postcards From The Edge, Visual Aids Benefit, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
General Store Rocks, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA
Rock, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Slice and Dice, SVA museum, New York, NY
Beginning Here 101 Ways, SVA Museum, New York, NY
Under the Sun, Greener Pastures, Toronto, Canada
Voo Doo Shit, Hales Gallery, London, England
Heavenly Creatures, Saltzburg, Austria
Beat the Reaper!, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
Drunk VS. Stoned, Gavin Browns’ Passerby, New York, NY
2003 Girls Gone Wild, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery New York, NY (organized by
Katherine Bernhardt and Bronwyn Keenan)
The Larger Room, 678 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Bad Touch V.4, Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
Slacker Art, Greener Pastures, Toronto, Canada
2002 Bad Touch, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Ecstasy Falls, g-Module Paris, France
Stirring the Turd, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Artnew York, Kunstraume Auf Zeit, Linz, Austria
Brush, Enders Projects, Frankfurt, Germany
Painting, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
Burst, Team Gallery, New York, NY
The Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Snapshot Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT
2001 Perfunctory Team Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Electraslip Knife Chicago, IL
Snapshot Baltimore Contemporary Museum, MD
1999 Tectonic La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico
Love Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
Forever is a Hell of A Long Time Bronwyn Keenen Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Sassy Nuggets A-1 Lab Art Space, Knoxville, TN
Eye Candy Contemporary Artists Workshop, Chicago, IL
Collections
Alberto de la Cruz Foundation, Puerto Rico
Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Amman, Jordan
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Hall Collection, Reading, VT
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Sandretto Foundation, Torino, Italy
Projects
2015 Club Caribe, Cidra, Puerto Rico (Permanent Installation)
Rabat Embassy, Rabat, Morocco (Permanent)
Nautilus South Beach, Artsy Project, Miami Beach, FL (Pool Painting)
Selected Bibliography
2020 Lee, Shannon, "Why Katherine Bernhardt’s Freewheeling Paintings Attract Collectors of All Kinds"
Artsy, May 18
Ludel, Wallace, “E.T. and Xanax: An Interview with Katherine Bernhardt" Cultured, January 16
2019 Indrisek, Scott, "Paint it Loud," GQ September 1
2018 McMahon, Katherine.“The Year in Books—Under the Covers, Between the Lines” ARTnews,
December 20
"The 3 Things People Were Talking About at Art Basel, According to Social Media"
Artnet News June 15
"The Art World Is Easy to Dislike. Here Are Some Reasons Not to.." The New York Times
Style Magazine, June 11.
2016 Peck, Aaron "Katherine Bernhardt" Artforum, June
"Make Painting Great Again." The New Yorker June 29
June 22
Saltz, Jerry "I Love Canada’s 17-Artist State-of-the-Medium Spectacle ‘Make Painting Great
Again.’ It Also Makes Me Worry for the Fate of the Lower East Side.." Vulture.com June 14
Germano, Beta "Show Me The Money." Casa Vogue June 1, 48-49
Lavrador, Judiacael "Sexy et sans complexes: la peinture figurative aujourd'hui", Beaux Arts, February
Grunenberg, Robert “Artists to Watch”, Numéro Homme Berlin, March 3
2015 Gleadell, Colin, "Market News: the modern art comeback", Telegraph, November 3
Schreck, Christopher, "Katherine Bernhardt", Kaleidoscope, November
Solway, Diane, "Katherine Bernhardt". W Magazine, November 1
Neave, Kate, "The Scoop", Baku, October
Rayner, Alex. "Patterns of Consumption", Supplement Magazine, October 21
"Meet the Artist: Katherine Bernhardt", Tory Daily, October 12
Gray, Catriona, "Bold Strokes", Harper's Bazaar, October 9
Herbert, Martin, "Four Painting Shows, Frieze, September
Saltz, Jerry, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Bad-Boy Artists? There have been, of course.
But the Art World Has Refused to Recognize Them", Vulture, Sepmeber 29
Dylan Kerr, "The Best Painters Don't Intellectualize Their Art: Katherine Bernhardt on her New
Painitngs & Why She Loves the Tropics", Artspace, September 19
Claire Lehmann, Katherine Bernhardt, ARTFORUM, September
Scott Indrisek, “Katherine Bernhardt”, Modern Paintings, September
Pignatelli, Benedetta, "Into the Art World", Vouge Italia, March 2015
2014 Koestenbaum, Wayne, "Best of 2014", Artforum, December
Saltz, Jerry, "The 19 Best Art Shows of 2014", New York Magazine, December 10
Zevitas, Steven, "15 Artists to Watch in 2015", Huffingtonpost, December 16
Knight, Christopher, "Katherine Bernhardt takes a large look at consumerism", Los Angeles
Times, October 7
Elle Magazine, "14 Drinks on Canvas", Elle Magazine, September
Roberta Smith, "Katherine Bernhardt: ‘Stupid, Crazy, Ridiculous, Funny Patterns’, New
York Times, Febrauary 20
2013 Saltz, Jerry, “The 10 Best Art Shows of the Year”, New York Magazine, December 8th, 2013
Smith, Roberta, “Katherine Bernhardt and Youssef Jdia - Holiday Services”, Art in Review,
New York Times, November 22, 2013
Smith, Roberta, “Last Chance: Katherine Bernhardt and Youssef Jdia, Holiday Services”,
The New York Times, December 27th, 2013
2012 Smith, Roberta, “Duro Olowu: Material”, New York Times, March 2, 2012
2011 Smith, Roberta, “Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo
and Judith Scott”, New York Times, July 14, 2011
2010 Church, Amanda, “Katherine Bernhardt”, Flash Art, November December 2010, p 99.
Williams, Maxell, “Katherine Bernhardt”, Flaunt Magazine, September 2010, p.72, 75.
Nelson, Karen, “A Runway Show by the House of Berber”, New York Times, Sunday, May 2, 2010
Asfour, Nana, “Katherine Bernhardt, Tombouctou 52 Jours” Time Out New York, Review, May 13-19,
2010, issue 763 .
Ward, Catriona, "Katherine Bernhardt at Ransom", Art of England, January
Lake, Ed, “The Rhythms of Celebrity,” The National (Dubai), March 29
Lake Ed, “Brushes with Fame,” The National (Dubai), April 6
Bollen, Christopher, “15 for 09” Interview Magazine, Dec./Jan. 09, p.163 (illus.)
“Art Market News: Kate Moss, Victoria Beckham, and Agyness Deyne Portraits to Launch
Gallery”, Telegraph.co.uk, September
Saltz, Jerry, “Kate, Giselle, Natalia, Agyness, Simon, Kanye & George” New
York Magazine Critic’s Pick, May 26
“Katherine Bernhardt”, The New Yorker, May 26
Schmidt, Jason, “Work in Progress”, V Magazine, February (illus.)
“The Armory how Shopping Guide” New York, Feb. 26, p. 129 (illus.)
Smith, Roberta, “Chelsea is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups”, New York Times, July 28
Modern Painters, “Katherine Bernhardt: Winter Special Crazy Fun”, May (p. 119 illus.)
Fisher, Sandra, “The Idea of Beauty”, Vernis, pp. 72 – 74 (illus.)
Maine, Stephen, “Down East”, Art in America, May, p. 65
Mendelsohn, Adam, “Primal Scream, “ whitewall, Second Issue, Summer, pp. 127 – 135 (illus.)
Hornung, Peter Michael,“Ny amerikansk kunst hos Wilson”, Politiken March 17
Scavenius, Bente, “Ny international kunst på de unge gallerier”, Børsen, Mar.31
Ross, Trine, “Afrevne lemmer og totempæle”, Politiken, March 24
Smith, Roberta, “Even a Little Space Can Hold an Abundance of Ideas”,
The New York Times, November 25
Schwendener, Martha, The New Yorker, October 17
Saltz, Jerry, “Ups and Downs”, Village Voice, September 23
Gell, Aaron, “Welcome to the Jungle”, Elle, October (illustration) p. 222
Smith, Roberta, “New York’s Finest”, New York Times, Feb. 11 E28
Jordan, Betty Ann, TORONTO LIFE, “art”, January
Blazer, David, EYE MAGAZINE, Eye Candy, “Katherine Bernhardt”, January
Bennett, Lennie, “Drawing Conclusions”, St Petersburg’s Times Floridian, September 5
Schutz, Dana, “Installation,” Modern Painters, October (illustration)
Finch, Charlie, “Grace VS. Grunge”, Artnet.com
2003 Smith, Roberta, “Review: ‘girls gone wild”, The New York Times, July 4
“Miss Sixty”, Paper Magazine, April
Turnbull, Emma, “Kenny Schachter,: Flux, November p. 50
Park, Jeannette, “The Art of Jeans, Miss Sixty Gets Creative”, Fashion Wire Daily, January 29
De la Cruz, Melissa, “Culturing Shoppers”, New York Daily News, Feb. 13 (illus)
2002 “Ecstasy Falls”, Le Monde, November
“Flash Art Agenda: Paris: Ecstasy Falls”, Flash Art, December
Halm, Dan, “The Fast and the Furious”, Fine Arts Journal, Summer p.16-17
Daniel, Jeff, “Changing Landscapes”, The St Louis Post Dispatch, April 28
2001 “The Front,” Shout Magazine, December p. 10 (illustration)
Levin, Kim, “Voice Choice”, The Village Voice
Saltz, Jerry, “Something Wild”, The Village Voice, December 25, p, 73
Worth, Alexi, “Pick,” The New Yorker, December 24 and 31 p. 22
Gilman-Sevik, “Review: ‘Perfunctory’ at Team”, Flash Art International, October p. 53 (illustration)
2000 “Chelsea Gallery Tour”, ART International, Fall
“Electraslip Knife”, New Art Examiner, by Lori Waxman, November
Saltz, Jerry, “Mood Swings”, The Village Voice, July 21
Publications
Katherine Bernhardt, Francesco D'Angelo, Karma Books, New York, 2019
Katherine Bernhardt: Houses, Karma Books, New York, 2018
Katherine Bernhardt: Swatches, Karma Books, New York, 2018
Katherine Bernhardt, CANADA, New York, 2017
Katherine Bernhardt, Tombouctou 52 Jours, 2010
The magnificent excess of Snoop Dogg Katherine Bernhardt, Picture Box Inc., New York City, 2008
Kathering Bernhardt, Greeky, Tabularium, 2008
Seeing Out Louder, Jerry Saltz, 2003
Teaching
Visiting Artist at Boston University, February 2014
Substitute Teaching at SVA, 1st Year Drawing Program 2003
Visiting Artist at SVA February, 2005
Panel Advisor for Undergraduate Scholarship at SVA, 2004
Visiting Artist at the Chicago Art Institute, Lecture and Graduate Critiques
Visiting Artist at Boston University, Spring 2009
Visiting Artist at Hunter College, New York
Visiting Artist at R.I.S.D., 2013
Visiting Artist at Rutgers, 2012
Curating
2004 Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where are We Going? Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Girls Gone Wild, Brownyn Keenen Gallery, New York, NY