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Kathryn Kenworth

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty
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Biography

Kathryn Kenworth is an artist and designer whose work explores systems of consumer culture and their impact on concepts of value. She uses everyday materials in her pieces to uncover commercial strategies and investigate ideas of community, ecology, and themes of re-use.

Her practice includes drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, installation and social practice projects. She also works as a graphic & interior designer. Currently she is developing a book of photographs taken while she was an artist in residence in Mexico City.

Expertise

  • Design, web and print design
  • Fine Art, sculpture, drawing, painting, collage

Research Areas

  • Community Building through social practice art

Appointments

  • Preferred Hiring Pool, University of San Francisco

Education

  • Center for Electronic Art, San Francisco - web and graphic design
  • Mills College, MFA in Fine Arts Sculpture
  • University of Colorado at Boulder, BFA in Fine Arts and Art History

Prior Experience

  • Freelance Graphic Designer, Print and Web
  • San Francisco Art Institute, Digital Media Instructor
  • Bay Area Video Coalition, Digital Media Instructor

Awards & Distinctions

  • Pollock Krasner Foundation, grantee
  • MacDowell Colony Fellow
  • Foundation House, artist in residence, Greenwich CT, 2024
  • Error, artist in residence, Mexico City MX, 2024

Selected Publications

  • Bedford Gallery, selected artist, Walnut Creek CA, 2024
  • Even Space, solo exhibition, Oakland CA, 2023
  • Esqueleto, solo exhibition, Oakland CA, 2023
  • Roll Up Project, solo exhibition, Oakland CA, 2022