KATHARINE KREISHER
Professor of Art Department of Art & Art History Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
www.katharinekreisher.com kreisherk@hartwick.edu
EDUCATION:
University at Albany, SUNY, M.A. 1981. M.F.A. 1986. Printmaking and photo-related processes.
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, B.S. 1971. Studio Art.
TEACHING:
Hartwick College. (1982-present) photography (‘82 -present) printmaking (‘82 –‘92)
Chair (‘92-‘99). named Arkell Hall Foundation Endowed Chair in the Arts /Professor of Art (2008-11)
EXHIBITIONS:
• SELECTED SOLO and 2-PERSON
Word and image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center, Treadwell NY “Messages: Katharine Kreisher”
2015.
Dietel Gallery, Emma Willard School, Troy NY “Katharine Kreisher: So Far, So Good” 2012.
RioBravoFineArt , Truth or Consequences, NM, “Katharine Kreisher: Dream Desert,” 2011.
Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, “Katharine Kreisher: Meeting My Selves,” 2011.
The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY, “Katharine Kreisher: Sense of Self,” 2009 .
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, “Katharine Kreisher: Everything In Its Place,” 2009.
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, “Katharine Kreisher: Circles of Confusion,” 2008.
Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA, “Katharine Kreisher and Rebecca Rome,” 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:
The Smithy Art Center, Cooperstown NY “Personal Perspectives: Sense of Place” curated by Megan Irving and Sydney Waller, 2015
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, NY, “Looking Back: The Art of Nostalgia,” juror: MaryAnn Lynch, 2013 (catalogue).
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY:
“Central New York Artists: 62nd Exhibition,” juror Susan Stoops, 2010. (catalogue)
“Central New York Artists: 61st Exhibition,” jurors Thomas Piche, Jr. and MarionWilson
2008.(catalogue)
"Photography: 53rd Annual Artists of Central New York State", juror Andrea Modica,1990. (catalogue)
"Photographers of Upstate New York,” juror Nathan Lyons, 1979.
Northlight Gallery, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University,Tempe, AZ,
“Diverse Views: The Women’s Caucus of the Society for Photographic Education,”curators Liz Allen and Betsy
Fahlman, 2008.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY, “SNAP!” 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:
“Once Upon A Time: When The Fairy Tale Ends,” curator Colleen Kenyon, 2003.
(article in Center Quarterly)
‘1989 Photographers' Fund Recipients: Will Faller, Debra Goldman, Katharine Kreisher," 1989.
pARTS, Minneapolis, MN, “Roger Mertin, December 1943 – 7 May 2001: A Collective Tribute Vision,” 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, “Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball”, 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
“Small and Seductive: Contemporary Art from the Institute’s Collection,”curator 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, “New Developments: Contemporary American Photography,” 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,
“Gender and Gesture” (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, “Exteriors”2014
Society for Photographic Education national conferences:
“Conferring Significance: Celebrating Photography’s Continuum,” panel
“The Feedback Loop of Contemporary Feminisms: Teaching, Learning, and Making” with Ann Kaplan, Patricia
Lois Nuss, Laurie Schorr, and MarciaVaitsman, Chicago IL 2013.
“Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts,” panel
“Self as Object: Perspectives of Identity” with Tulu Bayar, Amber Johnston, Suzanne Szucs and M.Laine Wyatt,
Philadelphia, PA, 2010.
“Photography and Place,” panel, “Home and Away: Roger Mertin’s Journeys” with Jeffrey Hoone and George
Slade, Newport RI, 2004.
Focal Press textbook, “Elements of Photography” by Angela Faris Belt, “Contemplating Peace” portfolio
published 2008 and 2011.
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).
Lake George Arts Project Collectors Club, Print commission, curator Julie Courtney, 1992-3
(intaglio edition of 100, “Ticking,” printed at Round House Press, Hartwick College)
BOMB Magazine, NY, NY, 1989. photograph published (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, Fine Arts Collection , Yager Museum.
Pinhole Resource Center (housed at New Mexico History Museum Palace of Governors, Santa Fe, NM)
LINKS:
Link to Kreisher images in Pinhole Resource Pinhole collection at Palace ofGovernors, Santa Fe, NM:
http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm/search/collection/pinhole/searchterm/katharine%20kreisher/order/title
Link to Kreisher’s “Home” on Photo Review web portfolio “Exteriors” 2014: http://www.photoreview.org/competition/portfolioFull.php/52/1/3
Professor of Art Department of Art & Art History Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
www.katharinekreisher.com kreisherk@hartwick.edu
EDUCATION:
University at Albany, SUNY, M.A. 1981. M.F.A. 1986. Printmaking and photo-related processes.
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, B.S. 1971. Studio Art.
TEACHING:
Hartwick College. (1982-present) photography (‘82 -present) printmaking (‘82 –‘92)
Chair (‘92-‘99). named Arkell Hall Foundation Endowed Chair in the Arts /Professor of Art (2008-11)
EXHIBITIONS:
• SELECTED SOLO and 2-PERSON
Word and image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center, Treadwell NY “Messages: Katharine Kreisher”
2015.
Dietel Gallery, Emma Willard School, Troy NY “Katharine Kreisher: So Far, So Good” 2012.
RioBravoFineArt , Truth or Consequences, NM, “Katharine Kreisher: Dream Desert,” 2011.
Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, “Katharine Kreisher: Meeting My Selves,” 2011.
The Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY, “Katharine Kreisher: Sense of Self,” 2009 .
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY, “Katharine Kreisher: Everything In Its Place,” 2009.
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, “Katharine Kreisher: Circles of Confusion,” 2008.
Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA, “Katharine Kreisher and Rebecca Rome,” 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:
The Smithy Art Center, Cooperstown NY “Personal Perspectives: Sense of Place” curated by Megan Irving and Sydney Waller, 2015
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, NY, “Looking Back: The Art of Nostalgia,” juror: MaryAnn Lynch, 2013 (catalogue).
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY:
“Central New York Artists: 62nd Exhibition,” juror Susan Stoops, 2010. (catalogue)
“Central New York Artists: 61st Exhibition,” jurors Thomas Piche, Jr. and MarionWilson
2008.(catalogue)
"Photography: 53rd Annual Artists of Central New York State", juror Andrea Modica,1990. (catalogue)
"Photographers of Upstate New York,” juror Nathan Lyons, 1979.
Northlight Gallery, Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University,Tempe, AZ,
“Diverse Views: The Women’s Caucus of the Society for Photographic Education,”curators Liz Allen and Betsy
Fahlman, 2008.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY, “SNAP!” 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:
“Once Upon A Time: When The Fairy Tale Ends,” curator Colleen Kenyon, 2003.
(article in Center Quarterly)
‘1989 Photographers' Fund Recipients: Will Faller, Debra Goldman, Katharine Kreisher," 1989.
pARTS, Minneapolis, MN, “Roger Mertin, December 1943 – 7 May 2001: A Collective Tribute Vision,” 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, “Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball”, 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
“Small and Seductive: Contemporary Art from the Institute’s Collection,”curator 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, “New Developments: Contemporary American Photography,” 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,
“Gender and Gesture” (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, “Exteriors”2014
Society for Photographic Education national conferences:
“Conferring Significance: Celebrating Photography’s Continuum,” panel
“The Feedback Loop of Contemporary Feminisms: Teaching, Learning, and Making” with Ann Kaplan, Patricia
Lois Nuss, Laurie Schorr, and MarciaVaitsman, Chicago IL 2013.
“Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts,” panel
“Self as Object: Perspectives of Identity” with Tulu Bayar, Amber Johnston, Suzanne Szucs and M.Laine Wyatt,
Philadelphia, PA, 2010.
“Photography and Place,” panel, “Home and Away: Roger Mertin’s Journeys” with Jeffrey Hoone and George
Slade, Newport RI, 2004.
Focal Press textbook, “Elements of Photography” by Angela Faris Belt, “Contemplating Peace” portfolio
published 2008 and 2011.
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).
Lake George Arts Project Collectors Club, Print commission, curator Julie Courtney, 1992-3
(intaglio edition of 100, “Ticking,” printed at Round House Press, Hartwick College)
BOMB Magazine, NY, NY, 1989. photograph published (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, Fine Arts Collection , Yager Museum.
Pinhole Resource Center (housed at New Mexico History Museum Palace of Governors, Santa Fe, NM)
LINKS:
Link to Kreisher images in Pinhole Resource Pinhole collection at Palace ofGovernors, Santa Fe, NM:
http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm/search/collection/pinhole/searchterm/katharine%20kreisher/order/title
Link to Kreisher’s “Home” on Photo Review web portfolio “Exteriors” 2014: http://www.photoreview.org/competition/portfolioFull.php/52/1/3