Cat BALCO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS DIRECTED

2021 No Seed Unsung, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2019 My Exploding Stars, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2017 Cat Balco: Watch your Step!, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT

2014 The Ellipses Project, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2013 Cat Balco: Bright Stripes, University Gallery, California State University at Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

A Shape Language, Frame 301 Gallery at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

2012 untitled, recent paintings by Cat Balco, Secretary of State Denise Merrill’s office, CT State Capitol, Hartford, CT

2010 Tag & Repeat X2, large-scale public wall works through the SAP program, Artspace, New Haven, CT

2007 Cat Balco: Recent Paintings and Drawings, The Olin Gallery at Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT

2003 Cat Balco: Recent Paintings from Life, Blue Shoe Strategy at Union Square, New York, NY

Cat Balco: Recent Paintings, Red Mill Gallery at The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Cat Balco: Recent Paintings, Viewpoint Gallery at Union Square, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Invincible Summer, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2023 Paint/Paper, Furnace Art on Paper, Falls Village, CT Group Exhibition, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2022 Anniversary Show, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT

The Lillian Orlowski and William Freed Award Exhibition, The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

2021 Color Cure: Women in Abstraction, Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Groton, CT

Love, Devotion, Surrender, Dedication, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY Group Exhibition, Green Box Arts Festival, Green Mountain Falls, CO

If 6: RWFA Artists and Guests, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2020 Abstract is Not a Style: 5 Women Painters, Hollis Taggart Gallery Southport, Southport, CT

Vision Acuity, The DSQ Project with Clandestina, Knoxon & online at www.dsqproject.com, Miami, FL

Cat Balco, Tom McGlynn, Alyse Rosner, Rick Wester Fine Art, Volta Art Fair New York, NY

2019 Pattern Play: Cat Balco, Donnabelle Casis, Francis O’Shea, Adero Willard, curated by Felice Caivano, Weidner Gallery at Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Abstract/Concrete: Cat Balco, Ellen Carey, C.F. Payne, Marisa Williamson, Joseloff Gallery, Pulse Miami Art Fair, Miami, FL

Circles and Squares, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

Languages of the Heart, John Molloy Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Lindsay Walt and Colin Thompson

Chromophilia, Artspace New Haven, (painting included in benefit live auction), New Haven, CT

2018 Tilia Projects Inaugural Show, Tilia Projects, New Haven, CT, curated by Jeff Ostergren

Get Loose: Cat Balco, Ben Godward, Jason Rohlf, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY, curated by Tracy McKenna

State of Abstraction, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT, curated by Jaqueline Gleisner and Daphne Anderson Deeds

2017 MANIAC, John Slade Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, curated by Kevin Daly

The APEX, a selection of several most admired CT artists by Art Directors and Curators across the state; Hygenic Art Galleries, New London, CT

2016 The Reality of Abstraction: Cat Balco, Mike Childs, Adam Frezza and Terry Chiao, Chris Mercier, Anne Sherwood Pundyk, David Rich, Vincent Verillo, Cecilia Whittaker-Doe, Becky Yazdan, Schelfhaudt Gallery, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, curated by Peter Konsterlie

Artspace, New Haven, CT (benefit auction)

2015 Evolution of Immediacy: Sue Post, Karen Schifano, Lucy Mink, Elizabeth Gourlay, Cat Balco; Ball & Socket Fine Arts, Cheshire, CT, curated by Kevin Daly

Art For Sale!, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, curated by Eric Ben-Kiki Cloud Nine, Artspace, New Haven, CT (benefit auction)

2014 Thinking through Painting, Summer McNight Crosby Gallery, New Haven, CT, curated by Leticia Galizzi

Improvised Showboat, New Haven, CT, curated by Loren Britton and Zachary Keeting Something Blue, Artspace, New Haven, CT (benefit auction)

Vibrant, Whitney Center, Hamden, CT, curated by Debbie Hesse

2013 Fabrica, Court Square, Long Island City, NY

Yale MFA: Five Years Later, The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, curated by Tracy McKenna and Kirsten Pitts

Untitled Group Exhibition, JAM Archives at Printsource 2013, New York, NY

2012 Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

In Plain View, Nuartlink Gallery, Westport, CT, curated by Vida Geranmayeh

The Broadway Gala Benefit Auction, The Lyman Allen Museum, New London, CT Megan Craig & Cat Balco, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT

2011 Twofold, Cat Balco and Rachel Beach, Nuartlink, Westport, CT, curated by Vida Geranmayeh Group Show, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT, curated by Stephen Vincent Kobasa Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

Hope, Laba Gallery at the 14th Street Y, New York, NY

Future Tense, Participator.US, online exhibition of billboard concepts curated by David Borawski

Chain Letter, Samson, Boston, MA

Grey Matter, The Painting Center, New York, NY, curated by Rachel Wren and Mathew Farina

Gorky’s Granddaughter, West Cove Studio, New Haven, CT, curated by Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy

benefit auction, Artspace, New Haven, CT (my 2010 painting Sun was a featured live auction item) Scrawl, Artspace, New Haven, CT, curated by Martha Willete Lewis

Scale Factor, West Cove Gallery Annex, West Haven CT, curated by Jonathan Waters

2010 Small Works Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, NY

Caliber, West Cove Gallery Annex, West Haven, CT, curated by Jonathan Waters

Cat Balco & Matthew Towers, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT

Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

2009 Somewhat Off the Wall Benefit Exhibition, The New Haven Arts Council at the O’Donnell Building, New Haven, CT

Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

Status Update, curated by Donna Ruff and Debbie Hess, Haskins Labs at Yale University, New Haven, CT

Large Scale Wall Works by Cat Balco, Debbie Hesse, Ethan Boisvert, and Mystique, A-Space, West Haven, CT

Cat Balco and Sharka Hyland, School of Art Gallery at Pratt Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY

2008 Abstraction/Distraction, Works by Jonathan Waters, Cat Balco, Emilia Dubicki, and Brian Wendler, A-Space, West Haven, CT

Interspace: Line and Color, The Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT The Cabernet Initiative, curated by Vasken Mardikian, Mardikian Studio, Brooklyn, NY Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

2007 Faculty Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

M.F.A Thesis Exhibition, The Green Gallery at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2006 First Year MFA Exhibition, The Green Gallery at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT 2005 Josie Merck and Catharine Balco, The Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY

Roundtable Exhibition, Gregg Gallery at The National Arts Club, New York, NY ’Scapes, The Flinn Gallery at the Greenwich Public Library, Greenwich, CT The Young Talent Show, The Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT Holiday Show, The Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY

Catharine Balco, Eve Mansdorf, and Jeanne Moutassamy-Ashe, The Craven Gallery, Tisbury, MA Catharine Balco and Alex Feyngold, Grand Lobby at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY

2004 Untitled, Mad Arts Gallery at the 18th Street Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY

2003 Small Works Invitational, Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY

2002 VSC Staff Painting, Red Mill Gallery at The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2001 Selections from 25 Years of Alumni Artists, Deerfield Academy Memorial Gallery, Deerfield, MA 2000 Don Teeter and Catharine Balco, The MR Gallery, Burlington, VT

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2021 Lillian Orlowski and William Freed Grant, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA

Green Box Arts Festival Featured Artist, Green Mountain Falls, CO

2020 Sabbatical Grant, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

Artists Fellowship, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT

2018 Berkshire Taconic Artists Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Sheffield, MA

2016 Coffin Grant, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

Sabbatical Grant, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2012 Arts Catalyze Placemaking Arts Leadership Grant, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT

Grant, Women’s Education and Leadership Fund, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

Grant, Summer Stipend, The University of Hartford

2010 Grant, The Albers Foundation, Financial award given to Artspace to support my project Tag & Repeat x 2 2007 Helen Winternitz Award for Excellence in Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2006 Gloucester Landscape Painting Prize, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT 2000 Vermont Community Foundation Artists’ Grant, Middlebury, VT

COLLECTIONS

AllianceBernstein Collection

Christian Keese Collection

Kirkpatrick Bank Collection

Credit Suisse

Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection

Sydney Austin, LLP

State of Connecticut

Private Collections

JURIED REGISTRIES

White Columns Emerging Artists Registry, juried by Matthew Higgs, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY

COMMISSIONS

2018 Large-scale painting, Gateway Community College, New Haven, CT

2013 Wall painting installation in corporate conference room, Hobson Enterprises, Cheshire, CT

2010 Wall painting installation in public lobby, 360 State Street, New Haven, CT

PRINT EDITIONS

2020 Davis Editions; two digital prints produced as part of Davis Editions’ portfolio

RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS

2008 Residency Fellowship, The Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT

2004 Residency Fellowship and Stipend, The Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT

2003 Residency Fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2022 – present Professor of Painting

2014 - 2022 Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing

2014 – 2017 Chair of the Fine Arts Department

2007 – 2014 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing

Yale University Summer Session, Pont-Aven and Auvillar, France

2008 and 2009 Adjunct Professor (summer term)

Pont-Aven School for Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France

2007 Assistant to Professor Robert Reed

Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT

2006 - 2007 Adjunct Professor

Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2006 - 2007 Graduate Teaching Assistant to Professor Robert Reed

VISITING ARTIST INVITATIONS, LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

2023 Yale University, Visiting Artist, undergraduate Senior Thesis critiques

Best Video Film and Cultural Center Lecture, “What’s the Point of Abstract Painting,”

2021 University of Wisconsin, Madison Visiting Artist, lecture and studio visits

Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT Panelist, “Life after Yale” event with undergraduates

Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY Artists Talk as a part of “Taggart Time” on Instagram Live

2019 Hunter College MFA Studios, New York, NY, Panelist on panel discussing Abstraction and Identity, Moderated by Brian Alfred for the Robert Reed Drawing Workshops

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Lecture/Gallery Talk on Sean Scully Exhibition,

2018 Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY Panelist on panel discussing Get Loose exhibition Artspace, New Haven, CT, Panelist on a panel discussing color, moderated by Megan Craig

2017 John Slade Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, Artists Talk in conjunction with MANIAC show

2016 Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, Panelist, “Life after Yale” event with undergraduates

Schelfaudt Gallery, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, Panelist at Reality of Abstraction exhibition

2015 Presidents College, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, Lecture

2014 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, Panelist for Panel on “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” organized by Sharon Louden

Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Artists talk and studio visits

Whitney Center, Hamden, CT, Presentation as part of Vibrant exhibition

2013 The Creative Center, New York, NY, Presentation as part of the Creative Center’s National Training Institute in Creative Aging

2012 Montserrat School of Art, Beverly, MA, Workshop in conjunction with subsequent solo exhibition

The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Workshop

Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, Panelist, “Life after Yale” event with undergraduates

2011 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, Honors Examiner

2010 Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT, Artists Lecture in conjunction with exhibition Cat Balco & Matt Towers

Artspace, New Haven, CT, Hosted a dinner and gave a lecture as a part of Artspace’s Full Plate Benefit

2009 Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Visiting Artist with Daniel Bozhkov in the Low- Residency Graduate Program

Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT, Visiting Artist in an All-School Critique

Pratt School of Art at Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, Artist’s Lecture in conjunction with exhibition Cat Balco and Sharka Hyland

2008 Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, Invited by Clint Jukkala to be a Visiting Artist in an Undergraduate Critique

2007 Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT, Artist’s Lecture in conjunction with exhibition Cat Balco: Recent Paintings

Pont-Aven School for Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France, Artist’s Lecture

HONORS

2009 Named Associate Fellow, Morse College at Yale University, New Haven, CT

CURATORIAL PROJECTS AND JUROR POSITIONS

2022 New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT, Juror

2012 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Juror

CT Commission for Culture and Tourism, Juror, reviewed public art proposals for the UCONN School of Nursing, Storrs, CT

2011 Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, Juror

2010 Mindsets, exhibition of collaborative work by artists & scientists; co-curated with New Haven Arts Council Curator Debbie Hesse, Haskins Labs at Yale, New Haven CT

West Hartford Art League, Juror, West Hartford, CT

2008 Art Consultant, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT

CRITICAL WRITING

Art New England, “Lesley Dill: Wilderness at the Mattatuck Museum,” review, July/August 2018

Art New England, “Studio Visit: Tschabalala Self,” article, May/June 2018

Art New England, “Profile: Anoka Faruquee,” article, January/February 2018

Art New England, “Studio Visit: Helena Hernmarck,” article, November/December 2017

Art New England, “Robert Indiana at the Glass House,” review, September/October 2017

Art New England, “Ruth Miller and Andrew Forge at the Washington Art Association,” review, July/August 2017

BIBLIOGRAPHY & PODCASTS

2021 Art New England, “Studio Visit, Cat Balco,” feature article by Susan Rand Brown, March/April

DailyNutmeg.com, “Access Panel,” featured in article about the Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s podcast series by Kathy Czepiel, February 23

2020 Open Studio: Conversations on Art and Why it Matters, interview with Maria Johnson on radio show, WESU, 88.1 FM, Wesleyan University, September

Ely Center for Contemporary Art, studio visit video, posted on Instagram TV as a part of a summer artists studio visit series

Ahtcast, on-line interview by Phillip J. Mellen at ahtcast.com

Wallscrawler.com, “Summer Brooms,” review of exhibition by Jeff Frederick, January 3

2019 Sound and Vision Podcast, panel on Robert Reed at the Hunter MFA Studios, with Lisa Corrine Davis, Enrico Riley, and Diana Mellon, moderated and produced by Brian Alfred

Gorky’s Granddaughter, on-line interview by Zachary Keeting and Chris Joy at gorkysgranddaughter.com

2018 The First Stop with David Livingston, podcast interview at www.firststopart.com, July

ArtSpiel.org, “Get Loose at Rick Wester Fine Art,” review of exhibition by Etty Yaniv.

CT Post, “State’s Public Art Spending Under Seige,” article by Dan Haar, June 25

TwoCoatsofPaint.com, “The Meditative Process of Making: Abstraction in Connecticut,” review of group show by Sharon Butler, June 6

CoarseGrind.com, studio visit with Jaclyn Conley, June 16

2015 The Arts Paper, “The Journey Over the Destination: Cat Balco Emphasizes the Process of Painting,” article by Hank Hoffman, April (images including cover image)

2014 The Hartford Courant, “At Real Art Ways, a Dramatic Display of the Dying,” article by Susan Dunne, June 17 (image)

2013 Megan Craig & Cat Balco: Tough Love, catalog from two-person exhibition including an essay by Francis Cooley

2012 The Connecticut Mirror, “Anxiety over new arts program,” article by Jan Ellen Spiegel, October 27

The Hartford Courant, “Students and Patients Share Joy of Art in Face of Life- Threatening Illness,” article by Ingrid Adamow about the Ellipses Project Summer Internship Program, August 14 (image)

2011 NBC Connecticut, TV piece on 2010 – 2011 Arts in Healthcare class edited by reporter Brad Drazen and broadcast nationally

Gorky’s Granddaughter, on-line interview by Zach Keeting and Chris Joy at gorkysgranddaughter.com

2010 The New Haven Independent, “Object Lesson #48,”review of large wall work Net by Stephen Kobasa, Jan 27 (image)

The New Haven Register, “A-Space adventure: Multidimensional West Cove Gallery up to rafters with a fine show,” review of Large Scale Wall Works exhibition by Judy Birke, January 24 (image)

2009 LaDepeche du Midi, “Un Commando de Jeunes Peintres US,” article on Yale Summer Program Studio Practice Course, July 14

The New York Times, “Where Art Meets Social Networking Sites,” review of Status Update exhibition by Jan Ellen Spiegel, Metropolitan section of Connecticut edition

The New Haven Independent, “New Art Exhibit Faces Facebook,” review of Status Update exhibition by Allan Appel, May 16 (quotes and image)

2007 Bon International, “Fifteen Young Masters of Oil,” feature on emerging painters by Friere Barnes, Issue No. 12, Winter (image)

ArtInfo.com, “The Unspoken Gorilla,” article on the art market by Chris Bors, October 16 (quotes and image)

The Yale Daily News, “Student Brings Art to Hospital,” article on hospital residency program by Rachel Boyd, February 20 (quotes and image)

2005 The Greenwich Post, ’Scape to Flinn Gallery for new show,” review of ‘Scapes exhibition, May 5

The Greenwich Times, “Scapes and the City, Land, and Sea,” review of ‘Scapes exhibition, April 29

The New York Times, Catharine Balco and Alex Feyngold exhibition noted in Weekend Arts section, April 8 (image)

The New Yorker, Catharine Balco and Alex Feyngold exhibition noted in listings section, April 4

2004 Failbetter.com, featured artist in online literary magazine, summer 2004 issue (quotes and images)

1997 The Yale Literary Magazine, featured artist, fall 1997 issue (images)

1996 The Yale Literary Magazine, featured artist, spring 1996 issue (images)

Women of the Ivy League, featured artist in literary journal, spring 1996 issue (images)

EDUCATION

Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

MFA in Painting 2007

Helen Winternitz Award for Excellence in Painting Gloucester Landscape Painting Prize

Yale University, New Haven, CT

BA in Studio Art (Painting) 1997

Yale Summer School for Music and Art, Norfolk, CT

Summer Residency Program 1996 Ellen Battel Stoekel Fellowship