KATE CASANOVA

Education

2013 MFA, Sculpture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2008 BFA, Sculpture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2007 Coursework, New York Studio Residency Program, New York, NY

One-person exhibitions

2021 Pores and Portals, Shelter in Place Gallery, Boston, MA Deepskin, Lane Meyer Projects PDA, Denver, CO
2020 Rock Collection, HyperKulturemia Gallery, Denver, CO Metabodies, O’Sullivan Art Gallery, Regis University, Denver, CO
2019 Liminal Bodies, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 2018 Underbelly, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Fake Rock Show Shop, Silverwood Gallery, St. Anthony, MN
Entropic Fuzz, Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN
2015 Aftereffects: A Natural History, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2014 Ornament, The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
2012 Kate Casanova, Atwood Gallery, St Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Kate Casanova, Moreau Art Galleries, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 2011 Spoils, The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY

Two-person exhibitions

2021 Casanova Hope, with Audrey Hope, Parkhaus15, Orlando, FL
Two Clouds, with Sarah Faye McPherson, Intermission Museum of Art, New York, NY
2017 Is This Seat Taken?, with Andy Ducett, A Clean and Poorly Lighted Space, University of Wisconsin Stout, Menomonie, WI
2015 Who Shares Wins, with Katie Ries, Amery Food Hub Gallery, Amery, WI
2014 Spectrum, with Nathan Coutts, St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Terra Nova, with Areca Roe, Gallery 122, Minneapolis, MN

Group exhibitions

2021 The Color Series: Part 4, Orange, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Nature’s Way, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2020 Artists from USA, Juried exhibition, YAG/garage, Pescara, Italy An Artful Holiday, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Let Us Eat Cake, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Artists Favorites, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Changing a Point of View, Juried by Christina Massey, All She Makes, allshemakes.org Spring into Spring, Kolman & Pryor Gallery,
Minneapolis, MN
Wonder by Wonder, Night Lights Denver, Denver, CO
The Color Series - Part 3: Yellow, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2019 The Fulfillment Center, Black Cube Nomadic Museum HQ, Englewood, CO Collect Call 4, SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Unsolicited Submissions, Juried Exhibition, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
The Other Four, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Streetlight, Wedge Projects / Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
Annual Spring Group Show, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN The Color Series - Part 2: Red, Kolman & Pryor Gallery,
Minneapolis, MN Fieldworks, Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, CO
2018 Window Wells, Yes Ma’am Projects, Denver, CO
Acts of Seeing and Hearing, Carroll Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
Picturing Nature: Diverse Environmental Considerations, Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN One With Water,
Downstream Environmental Film Festival curated by Peter B. Nelson, Northfield, MN Experimental Films from WZFR, Sleepless Cinema,
Huntington, WV
CAVE Festival (Cinematic Audio Video Experimentation), Bryant Lake Bowl Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
2017 WZFR Film Screening, Silverwood Park, Minneapolis, MN Beyond the Canvas, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
What I Think About, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Guess Ready Review, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN 2016 Selected Works, Public Functionary, Minneapolis MN
Verity in Vision, Instinct Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Big WAM Bash, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Tiny Art Show, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Fall Group Show, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, MInneapolis, MN
Land: Mine, Chippewa Falls, WI
MCAD Faculty Biennial, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN Art-A-Whirl, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2015 WZFR Film Screening, Lily Springs Farm, Osceola, WI
Station to Station, A Doug Aitken Project, Barbican Centre, London, UK Were the Eye Not Sunlike, Acre TV, Third Object, Chicago, IL
Cellular Cinema, Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
The Air Show, Instinct Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2014 IMAGE / Transition, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Monster Drawing Rally, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
thinking making living, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
The Wondrous, the Monstrous, and the Human: 2014 MCAD Faculty Biennial, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN HOTEL HOTEL, Northern
Spark, collaboration with Ben Moren & Daniel Dean, Minneapolis, MN
A Natural History of Chimneys, Leav, Minneapolis, MN
The Auction at MCAD, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
North of North, Gallery Vault, St. Cloud, MN
Color Space Editions, Color Space Art Imaging, Minneapolis, MN
Guess Ready Review, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Objects for Consideration, SOO Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Imagining Otherness: Catching Sight of Monstrosity, Janet Carson Gallery, Eau Claire, WI
2013 Beijing New Media Triennial, collaboration with Ben Moren & Daniel Dean, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China Art Faculty Show, Foster
Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Station to Station: Nomadic Happening, A Doug Aitken Project, New York, NY, Pittsburgh, PA, Chicago, IL, St. Paul, MN, Santa Fe, NM,
Winslow, AZ, Barstow, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Oakland/San Francisco, CA Highlights, The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
Sensory Soiree, Co Exhibitions, Minneapolis, MN
U of M at Cassidy Turley, Cassidy Turley, Minneapolis, MN
Human Pyramid, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Alice in Wonderland, Perlman
Teaching Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Juicy Steak Moustache II, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2012 MN Funk, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN You Cannot Unsee This, Kolman & Pryor Gallery,
Minneapolis, MN
Monster Drawing Rally, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN Wanderlust, Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN
Minty Fresh, Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Collects, Shoots and Leaves, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Summer Salon: Art, Film, Music, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Transitions: The Space Between Here and There, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN / Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
Landscape of the Mind, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Juicy Steak Moustache, Kolman & Pryor
Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Don’t Take a Gneiss Rock for Granite, Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Fashioned: One Becomes Another, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Untitled 8, Juried by Bartholomew Ryan, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Material Matters, Award recipient. MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Southeast Minnesota Regional Juried Exhibition, Paul Watkins & Weber Galleries, Winona State University, MN
Living Green Art Exhibition, Living Green Expo, St. Paul, MN

Art fairs

2020 Affordable Art Fair, reference: contemporary, Online Edition, North America, Europe, and Asia 2019 PULSE Art Fair, Kolman & Pryor
Gallery, Miami, FL
2018 SCOPE Art Show, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 SCOPE Art Show, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, New York, NY
2016 SCOPE Art Show, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, New York, NY 2015 SCOPE Art Show, Instinct Gallery, New York, NY

Press

2021 Jason DeRuscha, “Art-A-Whirl Amid the Covid-19 Crisis,” WCCO - CBS MN, May 14
Natalie Ryder, “Weekend Best Bets: April 8-11,” Minnesota Monthly, Apr 8
Susan Froyd, “Art Attack: 15 Ways to Celebrate Art in Denver this Weekend,” Westword, Mar 18 “Art Hounds: At Exhibition Undresses the Garment Industry,” Minneapolis Public Radio, Jan 28 Becky Fillinger, “Small Business Spotlight: Kolman & Pryor Gallery,” Mill City Times, Jan 15
Alicia Eler, “5 gallery shows to brighten January for Twin Cities art lovers,” Star Tribune, Jan 14

2020 Alicia Eler, “Minneapolis Art Scene Screams for Yellow,” Star Tribune, Feb 1
Josh Anderson, “Betsy Alwin // Kate Casanova // Teaching Material in Sculpture,” CAA Conversations Podcast, Jan 3

2019 Ray Mark Rinaldi, “This art show is offbeat, irresistible, the most rousing show of 2019 — and a mock Amazon warehouse”, The Denver Post,
Dec 16
Eliza Jordan, “7 Stops at PULSE Art Fair 2019,” Whitewall, Dec 5
“Interview: Patrick Pryor, Co-Founder of Kolman & Pryor Gallery,” Perspectives, PULSE Art Fair, Nov 14 Sommer Browning, “The Fulfillment
Center at Black Cube,” Entropy, Nov 5
Barrie Ann George, Joseph George, “Ejecta sought ‘Unsolicited Submissions’,” The Sentinel, Aug 15

2018 Daniella Mia, “The Highlights from Scope Art Show 2018,” Miami New Times, Dec 10
Alicia Eler, “Twin Cities’ 5 Must-See Art Shows This Weekend,” Star Tribune, Aug 10
Raina Belleau, “Body Works: Kate Casanova at Public Functionary,” MPLSART.com, Aug 9
Sheila Regan, “Art Party on Lake, Kate Casanova’s Cyborgs: This Week’s Top Art Happenings,” City Pages, Aug 7

2016 Joe Cristo, “U Adjunct Professor Kate Casanova’s Artistic Journey--From Sand to Fungi,” Minnesota Daily, Dec 8 Tessa Beck, “Connectivity
via Decay,” Nemeth Art Center, June 25
Shannon Geisen, “Nemeth Art Center opens with Kate Casanova’s poetic sculptures,”
Park Rapids Enterprise Newspaper, May 11

2015 Christina Schmid, “Wunderkammer Redux (Or, An Unnatural History),” MNArtists.org, April 1
Juleana Enright, “Kate Casanova on Ephemerality, Mushrooms and Occasionally Eating Her Art,” The Dressing Room, City Pages,
Minneapolis, MN, March 13

2014 Ashley Duffalo, “Why Is It So Difficult to Talk About Socially Engaged Art?” MNArtists.org, Dec 10
M. A. Rosko, “FOX 9 Morning News,” Fox 9, Minneapolis, MN, June 13
Brittany Shrimpton, “Six Impossible Things’ “Leav” Launches at Northern Spark,” MN Original blog, June 13
Marya Morstad, “Art Matters,” KFAI, Minneapolis, MN, June 12
Jessica Armbruster, “Meet the Northern Spark Artist: Kate Casanova in Collaboration with Ben Moren, Daniel Dean,”
The Dressing Room, City Pages, Minneapolis, MN, June 11
Will Gobeli, “Get to Know - Kate Casanova, Ben Moren, and Daniel Dean of Hotel Hotel,” Northern Spark Blog, May 25
Juleana Enright, “The Culturator: Guess Ready Review – Q & A w/ Kate Casanova,” l'etoile, March 6

2013 Sheila Regan, “Kate Casanova & Areca Roe at Gallery 122,” City Pages, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 25
Kristen Tillotson, “All Aboard the Nomadic Art Train,” Star Tribune, St. Paul, MN, Sept 13
Station to Station, “Perceived Boundaries with Kate Casanova,” Wired.com, Sept 10
Paul Schmeltzer, “Station to Station: Doug Aitken’s Polyphonic Culture Train,” Walker Magazine, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 6
Sheila Regan, “Station to Station Rolls into Union Depot Tonight,” City Pages, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 6

2012 Camille LeFevre, “2012 Artists of the Year,” City Pages, Minneapolis, MN, Dec 26
Camille LeFevre, “MN Funk,” City Pages, Minneapolis, MN, Dec 5
“Blue Ridge Mountains: Seventeen Year Song,” No. 4, Minneapplesauce, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 10 “Kate Casanova, Episode #401” MN
Original, Twin Cities Public Television, Minneapolis, MN, Nov 4 Camille, LeFevre, “Juicy Steak Moustache,” A-List. City Pages, Minneapolis,
MN, Jan 18

2011 Sheila Regan, “The Living End,” MNartists.org, Minneapolis, MN, Dec 1
Sheila Regan, “Anita Sue Kolman Gallery Features Transforming Fashion & Art,” City Pages, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 7 “Weekend Art Pick,”
Kipton Art, New York, NY, Jan 21
“SPOIL Yourself,” Theme, New York, NY, Jan 30

2009 “Kate Casanova,” InDigest Magazine, Feb/March issue, New York, NY, Oct 1 “St. Paul Art Crawl: Part 3,” 3 Minute Egg, Minneapolis, MN,
April 28

Books I Catalogues I Film

2020 A Nomadic Art Museum: Black Cube 2015-2020, Black Cube, Denver, CO (book)
2015 Doug Aitken, Station to Station, Submarine (feature length film)
2015 Doug Aitken, Station to Station, Del Monico, Prestel, Munich, London, New York (book)
2013 Human Pyramid, MFA Exhibition Catalogue, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue) 2012 Mystery Spot 2, Mystery Spot Books, Minneapolis, MN (book)

Grants I Awards

2020 Creative Arts Materials Fund, University of Denver, CO
2019 Marsico Visiting Scholar Award, University of Denver, CO
Clemens Award for Creative Production, University of Denver, CO
2018 Stein Award for Art, University of Denver, CO
2016 Teaching Innovation Grant,, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN
2015 Faculty Development Grant, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN
2014 Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board, MN
2013 Minneapolis Arts Wraps, City of Minneapolis, MN
Coca-cola Academic Initiative Grant, University of Minnesota
Student Initiative Grant, University of Minnesota
2011 Coca-cola Academic Initiative Grant, University of Minnesota
Graduate Travel/Research Funding, University of Minnesota
2010 ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, Honorable Mention
Graduate Travel/Research Funding, University of Minnesota
2008 Windgate Fellowship, National Finalist, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, Asheville, NC
ISC Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, Nominee lectures I visiting artist
2021 Visiting Artist, Fine Arts Lecture Series, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN 2020
Panelist, Dean Sobel, Museum Methods, University of Denver, CO
Artist Lecture, O’Sullivan Gallery, Regis University, Denver, CO
Guest Critic, Deep Crit, Yes Ma’am Projects, Denver CO
2019 Presenter, ‘Liminal Bodies: Posthuman Sculpture,’ Making Media Matter symposium, University of Denver, Denver, CO
Artist Lecture, Make & Tell, The Made Shop, Denver, CO
Artist Panel Discussion, The Fulfillment Center, Black Cube Nomadic Museum HQ, Englewood, CO Artist Lecture, Talk With Your Mouth
Full, Black Cube Nomadic Museum HQ, Englewood, CO Artist Lecture, with Chinn Wang, Fieldworks, Vicki Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO
Liminal Bodies: Posthuman Sculpture, Artist Lecture, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO Guest Juror, Annual Juried Student
Exhibition, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
2017 Panelist, Emmett Ramstad, BFA Professional Practices, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Class Visitor, Mathew Zefeldt, MFA Professional Practices, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2016 Artist Lecture, Loaded Lunch, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Guest Juror, Student Exhibition, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Artist Lecture, Stan Sears, Sculpture 1, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Studio Visit, Lex Thompson, Professional Practice, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
2015 Artist Lecture, Christine Baumler, Art & Ecology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Guest Critic, David Goldes, Graduate Critique Seminar, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
Artist Lecture, George Mahoney, Michael Kareken, Professional Practice, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
Artist Lecture, Chris Larson, Sculpture 1, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Artist Lecture, Christine Baumler, Studio Critique/Visiting Artist Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Artist Lecture, Katie Ries, Leav, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
Artist Lecture/Guest Critic, Lex Thompson, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
2013 Guest Critic, Ellen Skoro, Studio Thesis, College of Visual Art, Minneapolis, MN
Guest Critic, Ellen Skoro, Professional Practices, College of Visual Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Artist Lecture, George Mahoney, Michael Kareken, Professional Practice, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Artist Lecture, Experience MCAD Day, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN
Artist Lecture, Jennifer Danos, Advanced Sculpture, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN
Artist Lecture, Chris Larson, Concepts and Practices in Art, University of Minnesota
Artist Lecture, John Colburn, Senior Literary Arts, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley, MN
2009 Artist Lecture, Karen Wirth, Soft Sculpture, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN
Artist Lecture, Brad Jirka, Professional Practice, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN