Bio

Katherine Vetne’s still life-based practice merges themes of high craft, art history, consumerism, and gender. She received a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). She is the recipient of SFAI’s Graduate Fellowship in Painting, the Allan B. Stone Award, and an Individual Artist Commission grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Vetne has exhibited her work at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles; Samson Projects and 808 Gallery in Boston, MA; Catharine Clark Gallery, CCA Hubbell Street Galleries, and 2nd floor projects, in San Francisco, CA. In 2021 her work was included in Crafting America, a major craft survey exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, curated by Glenn Adamson and Jen Padgett. Her work is in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Vetne currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
 

Education     

        2015     San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, Master of Fine Arts in Painting     
        2009    Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Magna Cum Laude

Solo Exhibitions  
   
2023 Palate Cleanser, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (link to online catalogue)
2021 All This Could Be Yours, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (link to online catalogue)
2019 Whatever I See I Swallow, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA * (link to online catalogue)
2015    Vernissage, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2012    Thirty Spoons, The Hallway Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Interlinked, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York
2022 Not Even Home Will Be With Your Forever, Field Projects, New York, NY (Online)
2021 Crafting America, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
Reflection/Materiality, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2020 Until it Shatters, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2019 Drawing Down, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD
        2018    Heavy Metal: Women to Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
                   We Tell Ourselves Stories...In Order to Live, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   15th Anniversary Exhibition, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
        2017    Stardust to Steel, Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
                   Josh Faught :: Katherine Vetne :: Wayne Koestenbaum, 2nd floor projects, San Francisco, CA
                   Daniel Samaniego, Katherine Vetne, Xiao Wang, No Exit, San Francisco, CA   
        2016   Tight Ass: Labor Intensive Drawing and Realism, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles CA     
                   Common Dilemmas, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
                   The Alchemist, Root Division, San Francisco, CA     
        2015    Nourish, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA         
                   Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA     
        2014    Hidden and Revealed: Representations of Women by Women, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  
PreciousSentimentalCoyConcealingWithholdingNarcissisticObsessive, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA (two person exhibition)      
                   Badlands, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA         
                   Gold Rush, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA         
                   Piecework, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA         
                   Artist’s Choice, The Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA     
        2013    Black Ink, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA 2012    
                   December Salon, The Hallway Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA         
                   Boston Critique Group, The Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA         
                   TEDxSomerville, The Center for the Arts at the Armory, Somerville, MA
2012 Hyperconscious, Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA (three person exhibition)     
        2011     On or Of Paper, Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA         
                   Inside-Out, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA         
                   Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA         
                   A Taste of Boston, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA               
        2010    Draw Drawings Every Day, Washington Street Art Center, Cambridge, MA                  
                   Secrets, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA     
        2009   Materials are Language, 119 Gallery, Lowell, MA         
                   Boston Biennial, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA         
                   The Sixth Arches Print Show, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA

Awards & Honors   

2020 TOSA Studio Award, Minnesota Street Project (Nomination)
2019 Individual Artist Commission Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2018     Tosa Studio Award, Minnesota Street Project (Nomination)
SECA Award (Nomination)
        2014     Allen B. Stone Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
        2014     Partial Tuition Fellowship in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
2009    Gold Award, Drawing Category, Boston Biennial, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA

Collections

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
          
Selected Press      

        2023 Katherine Vetne’s Unstill-Lifes, by Gabrielle Selz
Squarecylinder, December 12, 2023 (link)
Katherine Vetne Puts a Dark Twist on Pretty Objects, by Tony Bravo
San Francisco Chronicle, November 17, 2023 (link)
2021 America Made By Hand, by Peter Saenger (link)
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 15, 2021
2020 Bad At Sports Podcast, episode 754 (link)
Oct. 21, 2020
2018    Why Katherine Vetne wants to melt your Baccarat into a puddle of art, by Tony Bravo (link)
San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 30, 2018
How Female Sculptors Are Pushing the Bounds of Metal as a Medium, by Bridey Heing (link)
Hyperallergic, Sept. 11, 2018
Memories Can’t Wait: Thinking Through Material Affects, by Anton Stuebner (link)
1240 Writing Residency, Aug. 12, 2018
Material Girls: Heavy Metal at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, by Vanessa Mallory Kotz
Metalsmith Magazine, Vol. 38 no. 3, 2018
5 Cool DC Art Shows to Liven Up The Dog Days of Summer, by Mark Jenkins (link)
Washington Post, Aug. 9, 2018
Metal is Marvelous in the Hands of These Talented Women, by Liz Logan (link)
                      1stdibs, July 2, 2018
                   5 Questions with Katherine Vetne (link)
                      National Museum of Women In The Arts Blog, Summer 2018
                   Women bring Metal & Mettle to Hubbell (link)
                      Glance, pgs. 16-17, Spring 2018
        2017    The File, Interview by Daniel Samaniego. (link)
                      Settlers + Nomads, 2017
       2016     Tight Ass: Labor Intensive Drawing and Realism, by Max King Cap (link)
                     Artillery Magazine, March 16, 2016

Publications

2020 Crafting America: Artists and Objects, 1940 to Today, by Glenn Adamson and Jen Padgett. University of Arkansas Press, 2020
2018 Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing: A Complete Guide to the Medium, by Susan Schwalb and Tom Mazzullo
Routledge, 2018

Community   
   
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        2013     The Boston Critique Group: A Boston-Based Artist Collaborative
                     Founder and Lead Facilitator