Kathryn Rodrigues
www.kathrynrodrigues.com | kathryn.rodrigues@gmail.com | ig: @kathryn.rodrigues
Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Project Zero Classroom, August 2008
Massachusetts College of Art
Masters of Science in Art Education, 2004
Certification in Visual Arts, grades 5-12
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Photography, May 2001
Exhibitions
2024 Midwest Regional, ArtLink, Ft. Wayne, IN
The Open, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2023 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
The Poetry of the Ordinary, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Class of 23, CPS Lives, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mycelium Connection, Terrain Biennial. Oak Park, IL
Midwest Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Private Space, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Exposure 2023, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA
Vicinity 2023, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
Home, Not Home, Agitator Gallery, Chicago, IL
Cut, Torn & Mended, Spilt Milk Gallery, Online Exhibition
This Is Your Allowance, Positive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
Filter Photo At Night: Women’s History Month, Chicago, IL
Women on Women, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Context 2023, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX
New Moon, Positive Space Studios, Chicago, IL
2022 Class of ‘22. Ignition Project Space. Chicago, IL
Midnight Things. The Martin. Chicago, IL
(Re)Connect. Alumni Biennial Exhibition. Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, MA
Visions in Photography: Stories of Now. University of North Dakota. Grand Fork, ND
Infinite Weight/Present Histories. University of West Georgia. Newnan, GA
Searching for Life: regrowth & display. Xavier University Art Gallery. Cincinnati, OH
Cartography of Care. Spilt Milk Gallery. Edinburgh, Scotland
Vicinity 2022. Perspective Gallery. Evanston, IL
Creating Space. Lill Street Art Center. Chicago, IL
Suburban Nostalgia. The Martin. Chicago, IL
2021 K.I.T. (keep in touch). Terrain Biennial. Oak Park, IL
Metamorphosis: The Art of Transformation. Visionary Art Collective.
Accepting the Unexpected. Stay Home Gallery. Virtual Exhibition
Abstracted Abstraction. St. Louis Artists’ Guild. St. Louis, MO
Abstractions. Fulton Street Collective. Chicago, IL
Maternochronics, Maternal Exhaustion in the Time of Pandemic. Virtual Exhibition
If Not Now, When? Spilt Milk Gallery. Edinburgh, Scotland
Solitude. ARC Gallery. Chicago, IL
2020 Member’s Exhibition. Filter Photo. Chicago, IL Virtual Exhibition
Of Time & Place. The Art Center Highland Park. Highland Park, IL
Something Wicked. Side Street Studio Arts. Elgin, IL
Home-Works. Spilt Milk Gallery. Edinburgh, Scotland
Home. Woman Made Gallery. Chicago, IL
Isolation. Midwest Center for Photography. Wichita, KS
Intimacies and Influences. Open House Contemporary. Chicago, IL
2019 The Witching Hour. Teaching Artist Residency Exhibition. Marwen. Chicago, IL
2017 Nasty Women Art Chicago. Moonlight Studios. Chicago, IL
Fairy Tale/Secret Garden. Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery, Marwen. Chicago, IL
2009 Teaching at 22. Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery, Marwen. Chicago, IL
Scavenger Project. MODA (Museum of Design Atlanta) Atlanta, GA
Scavenger Project. Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Drawing On Experience. Woman Made Gallery. Chicago, IL
Teaching at 21. Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery, Marwen. Chicago, IL
Art Futura 2008. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2007 Chicago Artists Month Open Studios. The Splat Flats, Chicago, IL
LumbArt. The Splat Flats, Chicago, IL
Teaching at 20. Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery, Marwen. Chicago, IL
2006 Chicago Artists Month Open Studios. The Splat Flats, Chicago, IL
LumbArt. The Splat Flats, Chicago, IL
From Here to There. Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery, Marwen. Chicago, IL
Those Who Do, Teach. Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery, Marwen. Chicago, IL
2005 Chicago Artists Month Open Studios. The Splat Flats, Chicago, IL
Identity. Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery, Marwen. Chicago, IL
Those Who Do, Teach. Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery, Marwen. Chicago, IL
2004 MSAE Thesis Exhibition. Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, MA
15th Annual Juried Student Art Show. Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA
Haystack Exhibition. Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, MA
Awards + Residencies
Photo Lucida, Critical Mass 2023 finalist
Perspective Gallery, Juror’s award. Vicinity 2023. July 2023
University of North Dakota, Juror’s award. Vision in Photography: Stories of Now. October 2022
Survive and Thrive Grant. Changing Worlds. July 2022
Portfolio Platform. Midwest Center for Photography. October 2021
CPS Lives residency at Sullivan High School. 2021-22
Stay Home Gallery residency, February 2021
ARC Gallery, Juror’s award. Solitude, January 2021
Filter Photo, Honorable Mention. Member’s Exhibition, December 2020
Marwen, Teaching Artist residency, Spring 2019
Ragdale Foundation residency, March 2008
Ragdale Foundation Chicago Connections Fellowship runner-up, June 2007
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, CAAP Grant, March 2006
Photographer’s Forum Best of College Photography Annual. June 2004
Eunice and Stephen Feller Award for Excellence in Art, Copley Society of Art. February 2004
Presentations + Publications
Boston Globe. Exposure 2023 Review. August 2023
What Will You Remember? Exposure 2023 Review. August 2023
Float Magazine. Home Is Where. Summer 2023
Fraction Magazine. Issue 167 15th Anniversary Issue. June 2023
Kimmy Not Kim Podcast. On Artist Motherhood. May 2023
Fraction Magazine. Issue 157 14th Anniversary issue. May 2022
Lenscratch. “Love’s Labors: Kathryn Rodrigues, The Witching Hour” September 2021
Artist/Mother Podcast. Finding Power & Freedom in Authenticity. September 2021
Teaching Artist Podcast. Kathryn Rodrigues: Reflections, Refractions, and Shadows. June 2021
American Literary Review, Spring 2016
Composite Arts Magazine “You Are Here” Spring 2012
Sixty Inches From Center, “Teenage Blockbuster” July 2011
Radical Cartography November 2008
NAEA national conference, “Open Options” New York, NY. March 2007
NAEA national conference, “Fundamentals of an After-School Program” Chicago, IL. March 2006
Teaching Experience
Teaching Artist 2003-present
Marwen, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
National Alliance the Mentally Ill, Oak Park, IL
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Arts Administration Experience
Marwen Lab cohort Teaching Artist, Marwen. Chicago, IL 2009-2014
Manager of the Marwen Lab, Marwen. Chicago, IL 2010-2012
Manager of Research and Development, The Marwen Institute, Marwen. Chicago, IL 2007-2010
Coordinator of School and Teacher Partnerships, Marwen. Chicago, IL 2004-2007