Kate Kendall (b. 1985, Denver/Colorado) received her MFA from CalArts in 2015 after completing her BA in Studio at the University of Southern California in 2007 and a year at the University of Cape Town Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2006. Looking to the natural world as a less determined space than the human world, Kate explores time and desire in relation to landscape, history and politics using sculpture, video, sound, drawings and installations to challenge the viewer perspective on reality. In 2019 she started Flow Archive with her father Jerry Kendall, a geologist, to consider the intersecting flows of time, water, sediment and humans. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, Houston, TX, Santa Fe, NM and Cape Town, South Africa.
Kate is the mother of Jack (3.5y) and Rocky (13m) and currently lives with her family in Houston, Texas.
+ info: kpkendall [@] gmail [dot] com
News
Solo Show: Buoyancy: What it Takes to Float & other questions of resilience after Hurricane Harvey, Chevron Headquarters, 1500 Louisiana Street, Houston, TX (November 9, 2022 - January 2023); Reception and artist talk November 10, 2022 @ 1:00pm
Showing: 2 sand peel sculptures on view during Nature Watercolors: River Paintings by Mario Reis, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX (February 5 - April 30th, 2022)
Group Show: Reclamation: Artists Books on the Environment, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA (June 4 - September 26th, 2021) and San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA (June 19th - September 5th, 2021); Online artist reception June 5th 5-6pm PST (upcoming)
Publications: How to Make a Sand Peel (December 2020)
Talk: Flow Archives; Soils: The Living Fabric of Health Urban Soils Institute 5th Annual Symposium, NYC (October 31, 2020)
Solo Show: Sand Peels from the Rio Grande, Lamy Amtrak Station, Lamy, NM (October 10, 2020)
Talk: Flow Archives of Harvey: Flood, Adjust and Recover, Houston Museum of Natural History, Houston, TX (October 27, 2019)
Talk: Flow Archives of Hurricane Harvey, Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas: A Field Guide, Stop 2 Presenter, Houston, TX (October 26, 2019)
Talk: Flow Archives of Hurricane Harvey in Buffalo Bayou: Flood Adjust Recover, GeoGulf Convention Presentation, Houston, TX (October 25, 2019)
Solo Show: Flood, Adjust, Recover: Flow Archives from Hurricane Harvey, GeoGulf Convention 2019, Houston, TX (October 23rd - October 25th, 2019)
Publication: “Flow Archives of Hurricane Harvey in Buffalo Bayou: Flood Adjust Recover”, GeoGulf Transactions, October 2019, p 125-174 (October 2019)
Solo Show: Help Pull a Sand Peel, Lamy Amtrak Station, Lamy, NM (August 2019)
Solo Show: Bringing Home the Bacon, Lamy Amtrak Station, Lamy, NM (June 2019)
Talk: Emerge: Fluvial Tapestries from Hurricane Harvey, HAA Let Creativity Happen Presentation, Houston, TX (January 17, 2019)
Publication: “Fluvial Tapestries: GeoArt of Hurricane Harvey”, Houston Geologic Society Bulletin, January 2019, p 33-43 (January 2019)
Solo Show: Emerge: Fluvial Tapestries from Hurricane Harvey, Buffalo Bayou Sunset Coffee Gallery, Houston, TX (October 24th - November 15th, 2018)
Publication: Flood Adjustment Recovery, edition of 100 (October 2018)
Group Show: Anatomy of Oil, Gas Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (September 15th - November 24th, 2018)
Performance: Gas-for-Water, in collaboration with Susanna Battin, Gas Gallery and Odd Ark LA, (September 15, 2018)
Publication: Gas # 4 Anatomy of Oil (September 2018)
Group Show: Seeing Harvey: Personal Stories, Public Responses, Fotofest International, Houston, TX (August 28th - October 24th, 2018)
Group Show: Bookends, featuring Double Positive in collaboration with Susanna Battin, curated byBraid Books, Pop-Hop, Los Angeles, CA (April 8th - May 11th, 2018)