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Katherine Sullivan

Professor of Art

616.395.7501sullivan@hope.edu

Katherine Sullivan joined 换妻社区 in 2003 as an assistant professor of art. She teaches courses in painting, figure drawing and color, and originated the department鈥檚 capstone course for studio art majors. She teaches first year seminars on art and activism. Her research interests include the body, post-colonial painting and interdisciplinary approaches to color and color theory.

Her most recent paintings incorporate aspects of Indian and Western painting and explore the boundaries between abstract and representational imagery, color and form, and direct and indirect painting technique.

Area of Expertise

Katherine specializes in painting. Her other interests include color and color theory and drawing, particularly figure drawing and depictions of the body across media.

Education

MFA, Painting and Drawing, Boston University, 2001
Post-Baccalaureate, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1998
New York Studio School, 1997
BFA, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, 1997

Honors, Grants & Awards

2015, Session chair: "Pursuing Perception: Contemporary Approaches to Color Theory," College Art Association annual conference, New York, NY
2013鈥�2014 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar grant
2013, GLCA鈥揗ellon Foundation New Directions Initiative grant: "Pursuing Perception: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Color Theory in the 21st Century"
2012, GLCA鈥揗ellon Foundation New Directions Initiative Grant: "Open Studio: Image and Text Explorations in Lithography"
2013, Wurlitzer Foundation artist residency, Taos, New Mexico
2012, Open Studio Lithography residency, Toronto, Canada
2009, Virginia Center for Creative Arts residency, Amherst, Virginia
2009, Ragdale Foundation artist residency, Lake Forest, Illinois
2009, Gros Morne National Park artist residency, Newfoundland, Canada
2006, Cooper Union artist residency, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018, "Jamia | Studio," De Pree Art Gallery, 换妻社区
2016, "Dialogue", Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery, Alma College
2016, "Darshan | Seeing," Kendall College of Art and Design
2015, "Force Drift," Bryan Oliver Gallery, Whitworth University
2014, "Outlier," M.F. Husain Gallery, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Katherine Sullivan

Phone Number616.395.7501

sullivan@hope.edu

De Pree Art Center Room 146 275 Columbia Avenue Holland, MI 49423-3654

Art and Art History Department

De Pree Art Center Room 146 275 Columbia Avenue Holland MI 49423-3654