Kathryn Shriver

Kathryn Shriver (she/her) is a visual artist from Western New York, now currently living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work spans painting, sculpture, drawing, metalwork, and writing, but is grounded in a materiality-based approach with a particular focus on glass beads. Kathryn holds a BA in Studio Arts from Wells College (Aurora, NY) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University (Montreal), and has also received training from the Art Students League in New York and as a copyist in the Musée du Louvre. She has attended residencies with the Vermont Studio Center, MOMUS, and Sager Reeves Gallery (Columbia, MO), among others. Her work has been shown across the United States and Canada, including with Studio Sixty Six (Ottawa, ON), Tempus Projects / CUNSTHAUS (Tampa, FL), Gallery 621 (Tallahassee, FL), Sager Reeves Gallery, and Kingfish (Buffalo, NY).  Alongside her art practice, Kathryn has an invested interest in arts-based research; she has previously worked on funded research-creation projects for artist Nadia Myre (Concordia University, Montreal) and was the Contemporary Geometric Beadwork research team’s Artist Fellow from 2021-2023. She is currently Regional Artist-in-Residence at Pittsburgh’s Contemporary Craft.

To learn more about Kathryn and her work, visit: kathrynshriver.com