Kathryn Kerr

Kathryn Kerr is a New York–based artist, born in Los Angeles and raised in New Jersey. She received her M.F.A. from Yale in 2018 and her B.F.A. from The Cooper Union in 2007.

Her paintings draw on divergent imagery, combining history, material culture, and personal experience to evoke longing and a sense of disembodied connection. Through archaeological, anecdotal, and observational references, she creates unplaceable landscapes that unsettle while inviting reorientation, employing abstraction and color to subvert expectations and disrupt fixed meaning.

Kerr’s work has been exhibited at White Columns, Magenta Plains, James Cope Gallery, Chapter Gallery, Project Native Informant, and Lomex, among others.

Yale MFA 2018 /
Cooper Union BFA 2007