+ SOLO

2020  Homage to Democracy, Neon Raspberry, Occidental, CA
2018  Refugee Stories, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 
2017  Kathryn Clark: Refugee Stories, solo exhibition, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017  Kathryn Clark: Refugee Stories, solo exhibition, Hello Stitch Studio, Berkeley, CA
2014  Kathryn Clark: Foreclosure Quilts, Stripe, Santa Cruz, CA

+ GROUP
2023  Sonoma Summer Collective Exhibition, Alley Gallery, Sonoma, CA
2022  True North, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2022  The Sum of the Parts: Dimensions in Quilting, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2020  Radical Traditions: American Quilts and Social Change, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2020  De Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2020  Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO
2020  The Contemporary Art of Quilting, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2020  Currents 2020, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2020  Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2020 By a Thread, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC
2019   Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2019   Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
2019   Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Chazen Museum of Art at University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
2018   Making Change: The Art and Craft of Activism, Museum of Design/Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2018   The Bounded Text, Kimura Gallery, Anchorage, AK
2018   Landscapes, Crafted, Society of Arts + Crafts, Boston, MA
2018   Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
2018   Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Society for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA,
2018   Marx@200, SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA
2018   Marx@200: Selections, Verso Books, Brooklyn, NY
2018   Beyond Borders: Stories of im/Migration, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2017   The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2017   Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home, Society for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2017   Storyline, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2017   New Threads: Unraveling Traditions in Fiber, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA
2017   Permanent Collection, Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington, DC
2017   Threads, Hemphill Fine Arts at Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
2016  Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian American Museum of Art Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
2016   In Remembrance: People, Time and Places, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Lucy Childs.
2016   Weave Wars, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2015  Good Mail Day, Artstream Gallery, Dover, NH
2015   Dead of Winter, Rare Device, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Tiffanie Turner
2014   Quilts: Pushing at the Seams, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
2014   Fail-Safe: Discomforts at Home, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR. Curated by Marci Rae McDade
2014   City Grid/Urban Pattern, Smink Fine Art, Dallas, TX
2014   Fail-Safe: Discomforts at Home, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2013   SPRAWL, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2013   3 Figure$, performance by Emily Zimmer, Naked Stages, Minneapolis, MN
2013   Material Witness, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
2013   Unbound: Artists and Quilters Redefine the Quilt, Hollister Gallery at Babson College, Babson Park, MA
2013   Kala Art Institute Group Exhibit, Marion & Rose’s Workshop, Oakland, CA
2013   Foreclosure Quilts, Gallery Nord, San Antonio, TX
2013   Out of the Blue, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. Curated by Ruth Braunstein
2012   Selections by Naomi Beckwith, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Naomi Beckwith of Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2012   Retooled/Repackaged, Marygrove College Gallery, Detroit, MI
2012   Work It: Artists Address Labor & Unemployment, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2012   Disintegration and Repair, Warm Springs Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2012   Idiom Series, Kala Art Institute Print Archive, Berkeley, CA
2011   Cashing Out, Kala Arts Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Julio Cesar Morales
2011   Artfully Reclaimed V, Marin MOCA, Novato, CA. Curated by Jack Fischer of Jack Fischer Gallery
2011   FLOW: The Essence of Paint, The ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Andre Rozanoff of Cain Schulte Gallery
2011   Annual Juried Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA. Curated by Rene de Guzman

+ EDUCATION

1994-1997    San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1991-1994    University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
 
+ PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington DC
International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, NE
American Civil Liberties Union, Detroit, MI
Michigan State University Museum, Lansing, MI
Ann Taylor, Inc., New York, NY

+ RELATED EXPERIENCE

2019      Improvisational Embroidery Workshop, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA.
2018      Guest Lecturer, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.
2017      Embroidery Workshop, Hello Stitch Studio, Berkeley, CA.
2017      Guest Lecturer, Stitch Modern, Piedmont, CA.
2017      Guest Lecturer, Mule Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2016      Guest Lecturer and workshop presenter, Stitch Modern, Piedmont, CA.
2014      Guest Lecturer, Surface Design Association.
2011-2013       Contributing writer to Handful of Salt magazine.
1999-2003       Project Manager/Urban Planner, Calthorpe Associates, Berkeley, CA.
1997-1999       Architect/Urban Planner, MacCracken Architects, San Francisco, CA.