Katy Kuhn

Overview
Katy Kuhn

 

Katy Kuhn’s art is about balancing spontaneity and energy with discipline and intention. She believes that making art is a process that one has to have an ultimate faith that, with enough passion and attention, something worthy will be born. For Katy as an artist, there is nothing more challenging or beautiful than a blank canvas: anything is possible, and yet nothing is certain. Katy creates abstract landscapes, people, and objects so that her paintings feel like something without actually being that something. She aims for a wider interpretation that allows for constant renewal in the viewer’s mind.

 

Kuhn is a fourth generation Californian and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of her life. She aspires to make art that is aesthetically interesting, yet edgy and ambiguous. She is inspired to express the beauty in the chaos: shorelines in nature and industrial wastelands; the human figure and conflicting emotions. The artist graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Fine Art and has participated in many solo and group shows. She is a member of the ICB Artists Association, Marin Arts Council as well as the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts and the Mill Valley Art Commission.

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Katy Kuhn

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Fine Art, UC Berkeley, CA

Certificate of Completion Multi Media Studies, San Francisco State University, CA

 

EXHIBITIONS

2020

Everyday Is A Miracle, Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2018  

Art San Diego/Opus Art Collective, San Diego, CA

Make Your Mark with visiting artist Krista Harris, Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA

Bay Area Women Artists O'hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

Windows and Waterfalls, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA

Winter Brings its Own Delights, 142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA

2017  

Inter/Actual, Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2016  

Engaged, Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2015  

Abstract Visions, Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2014   

Studio Shop Gallery, Burlingame, CA

2013  

Bay Model Visitors Center, Sausalito, CA

BOLD (juror: Bob Green) O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

Peju Winery, Napa, CA

2012  

Crome Architecture, San Rafael, CA Thomson Gallery, Sausalito, CA

Mill Valley Library, Mill Valley, CA

Bay Area Women Artists (juror: Donna Seager) O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

Collective Actions, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA

2011   

Dennis Hare & Friends, Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA

Collective Actions, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA

Marin Masters, Mill Valley Outdoor Art Club, Mill Valley, CA

Peju Winery, Napa, CA

Sundance Cinema Kabuki, San Francisco, CA

2010  

Ways of Seeing, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA

Peju Winery, Napa, CA

Sundance Cinema Kabuki, San Francisco, CA

Surface/Tension: h2o, Gallery 111 and Bay Model Visitor Center, Sausalito, CA

Abstract Works on Canvas, Robert Allen Fine Art, Sausalito, CA

Inside Out-Bay Area Abstract Artists, Marin MOCA, San Rafael, CA

Fallkirk Bi-annual Juried Show, San Rafael, CA

2009  

Peju Winery, Napa, CA

Bay Area Women Artists (juror: Donna Seager) O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

2008  

John Wilmer Studio, Sausalito, CA      

Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA

Studio 333, Sausalito, CA

2007  

Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Artisans Gallery, San Rafael, CA (Best of Show February 2007, Merit Award

Sonoma Plaza Center for the Arts, Sonoma, CA

2006  

Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Studio 333, Sausalito, CA

Mill Valley City Hall, Mill Valley, CA

Marin Arts Salon, San Rafael, CA

2005  

Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Studio 333, Sausalito, CA

Cafe Aroma, Idyllwild, CA

142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, CA

2004  

Monotype Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

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