Statement
I live within the shifting spaces of identity, memory, and the natural world. Through poured and peeled “skins” of paint, I transform personal history and ecological fragility into layered forms that echo both resilience and vulnerability. My work reflects the delicate balance between survival and beauty in human and environmental life.
about Kate
Kate Bae is a multi-disciplinary immigrant artist based in NYC and South Korea. Her practice encompasses painting, alongside the creation of site-specific installations and sculptural works. Bae holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of Women's Cactus for the Arts and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent shows at the Jeju Museum of Art, Korea and the Brooklyn Museum, NY.
Bae is a recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation, Foundation for the Contemporary Art, the Real Art Award, the MVP Chapter Lead Grant from the Malikah Gender Justice Institute, and the Ora Lerman Trust. She has attended residencies at the Sculpture Space, Golden Foundation, the Studios at Mass MoCA, the Trestle Gallery, the Wassaic Project, Chashama, and the Lower East Side Printshop, among others.
C.V.
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EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) / Chicago, IL / Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, 2003
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) / Providence, RI / Master of Fine Arts, Painting, 2010
Brown University Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning / Providence, RI, 2010
Hansoopool Haenyeo School / Jeju Island, South Korea / Certificate, Fundamental Course 15th Cohort, 2022
RECENT HONORS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2025
Casa Na Ilha Artist Residency, Ilhabela, Brazil
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center Artist Residency, NE
Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) Emergency Grant
Sculpture Space Residency, Utica, NY
BRIO Panelist, Bronx Council on the Arts, New York, NY
2024
Speaker, Art and Climate Crisis, UN COP29, Baku, Azerbaijan
Busan Cultural Foundation of Arts Grant, Busan, South Korea
Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, NJ
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Breathe with Me, Grand Central Madison LIRR, MTA Arts & Design, New York, NY
Submerged: Sea Life and Aquatic Art, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
Thicket, Curated by Kirstin Lamb, Overlap Gallery, Newport, RI
Biyang, Collaboration with Hyo Jung Bea, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, South Korea
2024
Seaweed Diary, Busan Art Foundation, Busan, South Korea
Re·a·dapt, Seoul Design Festival, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Project on Crisis, Collaboration with Eco Action Forest, New York, NY
Homo Migratio, Collaboration with Hyo Jung Bea, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, South Korea
Wooriga Badara, Performance, The Paran and Jeju Foundation for the Arts & Culture, Jeju, South Korea
Project on Crisis, Collaboration with Eco Action Forest, Daetigohae Green Village, Busan, South Korea
Gathering, Curated by Asianish, FiveMyles Gallery, New York, NY
Practicing Uncertainty, Curated by Sophia Chizuco, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY
Um dyggð hins dúnkennda tilgangsleysis, two persons show with Magnús Helgason, Gallery Mjólkurbúðin, Akureyri, Iceland
Do or Don’t Do It Yourself: A Paint by Number, Curated by Kirstin Lamb, Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
A Rite of Passage, Solo Presentation, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2022
I’m Fine, Thank you. And You? Jeju Foundation for the Arts & Culture, Artspace IAa, Jeju Island, South Korea
A Tournament of Lies, Collaboration with Anne Mungtes, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
We the People, Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center, Solomon, MD
State of Nature, Curated by Erika Diamond, Chautauqua Visual Arts (CVA), Chautauqua, NY
2021
Remergence: the 18th Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Hatak, North Willow, Montclair, NJ
The Birth of a New Eden, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Curated by Andrea Zlotowitz, New York, NY
I’m/Migrant, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
CVA School of Art Participants Exhibition, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Willie’s Dream, Solo Presentation, Collaboration with Musician Chihiro Shibayama, The Fullerton Mansion via Newburgh Community Land Bank, Newburgh, NY
2020
How to Care for the Succulent, Head Curator as Women’s Cactus for the Arts, SPRING/BREAK art show, New York, NY
2019
Possible, Between and Together, Solo Presentation, Curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, NY