KATHRYN SHRIVER
b. 1991, Buffalo, NY
currently based in Pittsburgh, PA
[email protected]
EDUCATION
2017 Masters of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
2013 Bachelor of Arts, Studio/ Fine Arts
Wells College, Aurora, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 “[…] and a room of one’s own,” site-specific installation, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 House Sitting, (___) / BlankSpace, Pittsburgh, PA
2022 I spent some time at home, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2021 AND THE FATES PUT DOWN THEIR HANDS, Sager Reeves Gallery, Columbia, MO
2019 Glamor & Mimicry, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2017 NON-FIXIONS, SubGallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2015 The Myth of the Phrasemaker’s Parrot, Seward House Museum, Aurora, NY
TWO- AND THREE- ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2022 The House Protects the Dreamer with Krystal DiFronzo, Kingfish Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2018 In Detail, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON with Kristina Corre and Amy Barker
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 (forthcoming) Almost the Same, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
2026 (forthcoming) In Tandem, Bruce Gallery at PennWest University, Edinboro, PA
2026 Material Impact, The Media Arts Gallery at Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 AAP New Member Exhibition, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Storytelling in Stitches and Shapes: ProjectArt Showcase, Irma Freeman Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Artist-in-Residence Show, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2022 Bits and Little Pieces, Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
2020 Notions, EK Voland Gallery, Montreal, QC, with collaborating artist Moe Clark
2018 Never Met Her, Tempus Projects, Curated by Cunsthaus, Tampa, FL
2018 Foundations / Futures, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON
2017 ARTICULATIONS, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON
2017 Graduating Students Exhibition, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, QC
2016 Unholy Objects, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON
2016 Fragments, MainLine Gallery, Montreal,QC
2016 these may (not) be places, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON
2016 Open Studio Weekend, Washington ArtWorks, Rockville, MD
2016 Expo 35, b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, NY
2015 In the Mix, Gallery r, Rochester, NY
2015 Abstract Catalyst, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2015 35th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
2014 Fiber Fever, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2014 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2013 Identity, Main (St)udios, Buffalo, NY
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Bunker Projects Residency, (July-September), Pittsburgh, PA
2025 F.I.N.E. Art Residency, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 ProjectArt ArtCorps Residency (2024-2025), Pittsburgh, PA
2024 Woodstock Byrdcliff Communal Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY with Jewelry Fund Fellowship
2024 Contemporary Craft Local Artist-in-Residence, Pittsburgh, PA (forthcoming)
2022 Bonnie McComb Kreye Studio Residency, Victoria, BC
2021 Contemporary Geometric Beadwork Academic & Artist Fellowship (2021-2023)
2021 Canterbury Shaker Village Artist-in-Residence Program, Canterbury, NH
2020 Ox-Bow Conversations in Practice: Winter Intensive (Virtual Program)
2020 Sager Braudis Gallery Residency, Columbia, MO
2019 MOMUS Emerging Critics Residency, Montreal, QC
2018 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT with VSC / Windgate Artist Fellowship (November 2018)
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2013 Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts Fellowship (2013-2015)
COLLECTIONS
2025 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Permanent Collection
2023 Museum of Beadwork, Permanent Collection
PUBLICATIONS AND FEATURES
2022 Kathryn Shriver was set to do big things in the arts in Savannah. Instead, she's leaving town, Rob Hessler, Savannah Morning News, April 26, 2022.
2021 Q+Art: Artist Kathryn Shriver Tempts the Fates with Handwoven Glass Sculptures, Morgan Laurens, Not Real Art, May 24, 2021
2018 PLEAT Gallery, FOR DISPLAY, Curated by Bethanie Irons
2018 The Woven Tale Press, Volume 7
2018 Ellipsis…, Volume 54, Cover
2018 Young Space, Artists, January 27th, 2018
2014 MiddleGray Magazine, Issue 5: Cover; pp 37,78-89
2014 Level 25 Art Journal, Issue 7: Cover; pp 32-41
ART WRITING & LECTURES
2022 Sliding Scales: Moving between the material, technical, and conceptual with experimental beading. Visiting Artist lecture, Sculptural Fiber course, Prof Kimberly English, Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, NC). Zoom lecture.
2022 I Spent Some Time at Home, Visiting Artist Lecture at Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT)
2021 Bead Behavior: Shape-Shifting, Transforming, and Mimicry in Contemporary Beadwork. Companion Lecture to Sam Norgard’s International All Colors Project, NorgardDesigns.com
2013 Afterimage Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, May/June 2013: Vol. 40, No. 6. “My Name is Legion, for we are Many,” review
of Legion, Kelly Richardson at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Pg 23.
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2025-26 Metals 1, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2025-26 Intro to Geometric Beadweaving 8-Week Series, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Beaded Flowers!, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Mix + Match Earring Sets (Metals), Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Beaded fidgets: Triangles, Patterns, & Assembled Geometry for Pittsburgh Public Schools Personal Development Day, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 Intro to Metalsmithing for Obama High School group, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 Intro to Geometric Beadweaving, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2021-23 Contemporary Geometric Beadwork Workshops, Co-facilitator with Kate McKinnon, Anvi Shah & Sam Norgard. Savannah, GA.
EMPLOYMENT
2025- Pittsburgh Program Manager, ProjectArt, New York, NY
2025- Communications Coordinator, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2021-2023 Research Associate, Contemporary Geometric Beadwork, UnLab, Savannah, GA
2021-2023. Grant Writer, freelance
2018-2020 Research and Administrative Coordinator to Nadia Myre, Concordia University, Montreal QC
2017-2018 Studio Assistant to Nadia Myre, Montreal, QC
2017-2018 Studio Assistant to Holly Friesen, Montreal, QC
2016 Professor, Part-Time Faculty (Drawing 200), Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2015 Illustrator / Graphic Designer, Concordia University Graduate Student’s Association, Montreal, QC
2013-2015 Teaching Assistant, (Drawing I, Drawing III- Professor Holly King and Special Topics in Art: Ideas and Issues-
Professor Lon Dubinsky) Concordia University, Montreal QC
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2024-2025 Facilitator, Companion Lectures Series, Norgard Designs Global Project
2025 Teaching Assistant to Carly Owens Weiss Softly Sculpted: Explorations in Embroidered Soft Sculpture
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2024 Technical Consultant on Beadwork Processes Art Production Design Studio,
Kapwani Kiwanga Venice Biennale Project
2019 Co-Presenter with Nadia Myre and Rachelle Marcoux
Tree of Shifting Forms: Transcultural Movements and Ceramic Textiles, Blinc 20/20 Presentation,
Claytopia: 53rd National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Co-Author with Nadia Myre and Katie LaMarche
Dreaming the Outcome: Indigenous Research-Creation
SSHRC Grant for Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation
Presented at Indigenous National Dialogue in Ottawa, ON
2018 Facilitator and Data Collection
Migrations by Mat Chivers in collaboration with Element AI
C2 Montreal International Business Conference at Arsenale
Montreal, QC
2018 Team Member, Installation
Tree of Shifting Forms sculpture by Nadia Myre
Embassy of Canada, Paris, France
2015 Certificate in University Teaching
Concordia University Center for Teaching and Learning Services
2014-2015 Research Assistant
Material Codes: Ephemeral Traces by Kelly Thompson
Fonds de Recherche du Québec—Société et Culture
Summer 2013 Intern, Guest Services
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Spring 2012 Copyist, Musée du Louvre, Copying Alexandre Colin’s Portrait of the Artist
Atilier Judith Gratz, Paris, France
Summer 2011 Intern, Web content, Digital Archives Project, Fundraising
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Summer 2011 Intern in Design and Administration and Teaching Assistant for Writing with Light Summer Workshop
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
b. 1991, Buffalo, NY
currently based in Pittsburgh, PA
[email protected]
EDUCATION
2017 Masters of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
2013 Bachelor of Arts, Studio/ Fine Arts
Wells College, Aurora, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 “[…] and a room of one’s own,” site-specific installation, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 House Sitting, (___) / BlankSpace, Pittsburgh, PA
2022 I spent some time at home, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2021 AND THE FATES PUT DOWN THEIR HANDS, Sager Reeves Gallery, Columbia, MO
2019 Glamor & Mimicry, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2017 NON-FIXIONS, SubGallery, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2015 The Myth of the Phrasemaker’s Parrot, Seward House Museum, Aurora, NY
TWO- AND THREE- ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2022 The House Protects the Dreamer with Krystal DiFronzo, Kingfish Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2018 In Detail, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON with Kristina Corre and Amy Barker
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 (forthcoming) Almost the Same, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
2026 (forthcoming) In Tandem, Bruce Gallery at PennWest University, Edinboro, PA
2026 Material Impact, The Media Arts Gallery at Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 AAP New Member Exhibition, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition Space, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Storytelling in Stitches and Shapes: ProjectArt Showcase, Irma Freeman Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Artist-in-Residence Show, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2022 Bits and Little Pieces, Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
2020 Notions, EK Voland Gallery, Montreal, QC, with collaborating artist Moe Clark
2018 Never Met Her, Tempus Projects, Curated by Cunsthaus, Tampa, FL
2018 Foundations / Futures, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON
2017 ARTICULATIONS, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON
2017 Graduating Students Exhibition, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, QC
2016 Unholy Objects, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON
2016 Fragments, MainLine Gallery, Montreal,QC
2016 these may (not) be places, Studio Sixty Six, Ottawa, ON
2016 Open Studio Weekend, Washington ArtWorks, Rockville, MD
2016 Expo 35, b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, NY
2015 In the Mix, Gallery r, Rochester, NY
2015 Abstract Catalyst, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2015 35th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL
2014 Fiber Fever, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2014 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2013 Identity, Main (St)udios, Buffalo, NY
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Bunker Projects Residency, (July-September), Pittsburgh, PA
2025 F.I.N.E. Art Residency, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 ProjectArt ArtCorps Residency (2024-2025), Pittsburgh, PA
2024 Woodstock Byrdcliff Communal Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY with Jewelry Fund Fellowship
2024 Contemporary Craft Local Artist-in-Residence, Pittsburgh, PA (forthcoming)
2022 Bonnie McComb Kreye Studio Residency, Victoria, BC
2021 Contemporary Geometric Beadwork Academic & Artist Fellowship (2021-2023)
2021 Canterbury Shaker Village Artist-in-Residence Program, Canterbury, NH
2020 Ox-Bow Conversations in Practice: Winter Intensive (Virtual Program)
2020 Sager Braudis Gallery Residency, Columbia, MO
2019 MOMUS Emerging Critics Residency, Montreal, QC
2018 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT with VSC / Windgate Artist Fellowship (November 2018)
2016 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2013 Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts Fellowship (2013-2015)
COLLECTIONS
2025 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Permanent Collection
2023 Museum of Beadwork, Permanent Collection
PUBLICATIONS AND FEATURES
2022 Kathryn Shriver was set to do big things in the arts in Savannah. Instead, she's leaving town, Rob Hessler, Savannah Morning News, April 26, 2022.
2021 Q+Art: Artist Kathryn Shriver Tempts the Fates with Handwoven Glass Sculptures, Morgan Laurens, Not Real Art, May 24, 2021
2018 PLEAT Gallery, FOR DISPLAY, Curated by Bethanie Irons
2018 The Woven Tale Press, Volume 7
2018 Ellipsis…, Volume 54, Cover
2018 Young Space, Artists, January 27th, 2018
2014 MiddleGray Magazine, Issue 5: Cover; pp 37,78-89
2014 Level 25 Art Journal, Issue 7: Cover; pp 32-41
ART WRITING & LECTURES
2022 Sliding Scales: Moving between the material, technical, and conceptual with experimental beading. Visiting Artist lecture, Sculptural Fiber course, Prof Kimberly English, Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, NC). Zoom lecture.
2022 I Spent Some Time at Home, Visiting Artist Lecture at Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT)
2021 Bead Behavior: Shape-Shifting, Transforming, and Mimicry in Contemporary Beadwork. Companion Lecture to Sam Norgard’s International All Colors Project, NorgardDesigns.com
2013 Afterimage Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, May/June 2013: Vol. 40, No. 6. “My Name is Legion, for we are Many,” review
of Legion, Kelly Richardson at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Pg 23.
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2025-26 Metals 1, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2025-26 Intro to Geometric Beadweaving 8-Week Series, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Beaded Flowers!, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Mix + Match Earring Sets (Metals), Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2025 Beaded fidgets: Triangles, Patterns, & Assembled Geometry for Pittsburgh Public Schools Personal Development Day, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 Intro to Metalsmithing for Obama High School group, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 Intro to Geometric Beadweaving, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2021-23 Contemporary Geometric Beadwork Workshops, Co-facilitator with Kate McKinnon, Anvi Shah & Sam Norgard. Savannah, GA.
EMPLOYMENT
2025- Pittsburgh Program Manager, ProjectArt, New York, NY
2025- Communications Coordinator, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2021-2023 Research Associate, Contemporary Geometric Beadwork, UnLab, Savannah, GA
2021-2023. Grant Writer, freelance
2018-2020 Research and Administrative Coordinator to Nadia Myre, Concordia University, Montreal QC
2017-2018 Studio Assistant to Nadia Myre, Montreal, QC
2017-2018 Studio Assistant to Holly Friesen, Montreal, QC
2016 Professor, Part-Time Faculty (Drawing 200), Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2015 Illustrator / Graphic Designer, Concordia University Graduate Student’s Association, Montreal, QC
2013-2015 Teaching Assistant, (Drawing I, Drawing III- Professor Holly King and Special Topics in Art: Ideas and Issues-
Professor Lon Dubinsky) Concordia University, Montreal QC
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2024-2025 Facilitator, Companion Lectures Series, Norgard Designs Global Project
2025 Teaching Assistant to Carly Owens Weiss Softly Sculpted: Explorations in Embroidered Soft Sculpture
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2024 Technical Consultant on Beadwork Processes Art Production Design Studio,
Kapwani Kiwanga Venice Biennale Project
2019 Co-Presenter with Nadia Myre and Rachelle Marcoux
Tree of Shifting Forms: Transcultural Movements and Ceramic Textiles, Blinc 20/20 Presentation,
Claytopia: 53rd National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Co-Author with Nadia Myre and Katie LaMarche
Dreaming the Outcome: Indigenous Research-Creation
SSHRC Grant for Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation
Presented at Indigenous National Dialogue in Ottawa, ON
2018 Facilitator and Data Collection
Migrations by Mat Chivers in collaboration with Element AI
C2 Montreal International Business Conference at Arsenale
Montreal, QC
2018 Team Member, Installation
Tree of Shifting Forms sculpture by Nadia Myre
Embassy of Canada, Paris, France
2015 Certificate in University Teaching
Concordia University Center for Teaching and Learning Services
2014-2015 Research Assistant
Material Codes: Ephemeral Traces by Kelly Thompson
Fonds de Recherche du Québec—Société et Culture
Summer 2013 Intern, Guest Services
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Spring 2012 Copyist, Musée du Louvre, Copying Alexandre Colin’s Portrait of the Artist
Atilier Judith Gratz, Paris, France
Summer 2011 Intern, Web content, Digital Archives Project, Fundraising
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Summer 2011 Intern in Design and Administration and Teaching Assistant for Writing with Light Summer Workshop
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY