Click here for an unabbreviated print version.
8/6/2024 abbreviated
Katharen Wiese b. Lincoln, Nebraska. Residing in New Haven, Connecticut.
Education
2024 M.F.A. (painting and printmaking), Yale University, New Haven
2018 B.F.A. (printmaking), University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Solo Exhibitions
2022 i made the cornrows: portraits of Black Nebraskans, Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, NE
in relief, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
Group Exhibitions
2024 Amalgam, Chilli Art Projects (London)
They Stole the Sweet Away, SPURS Gallery, Beijing
Surface Trouble, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York
And sew it seams, Toshkova Fine Art Advisory, Durham, NC
a place that is not here, Afro American Cultural Center at Yale
and the forms which linger . . . , Yale Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2023 Second Thoughts, Yale Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
Beautiful Black, Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Clarinda, IA
Cousins, Yale African American Student Center, New Haven, CT
2022 Blanket Statement: First-Year MFA show, New Haven, CT
Beautiful Black, Assemblage, Lincoln, NE
2021 Because of This, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
Permanent exhibit at the Nebraska History Museum, Lincoln, NE
Art in Embassies, US Department of State, Kampala, Uganda
2020 U + E: Kwame Dawes and Kat Wiese, Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha
NOW, Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, NE
9 Nebraskans, Constellation Studios and LUX Center for the Arts outdoor woodcut series, Lincoln, NE
i miss you and i’m angry, Ghost Art Project, Omaha, NE
Black Love, Black Futures, South of Downtown Art Hub, Lincoln, NE
2019 Imprimo, Gallery 9, Lincoln, NE
The Unpaid Intern Show, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Omaha Zinefest, Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2018 Exquisite Slop Swap, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Capstone Show, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
2017 Vreeland Howard Award Show, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Nebraska Touring, Warren Opera House, Friend, NE
Nebraska Touring, Prairie Arts Center, North Platte, NE
Nebraska Touring, Studio K, Grand Island, NE
Dime, The Bay, Lincoln, NE
Tugboat Silent Auction, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2016 Hell Yeah x7, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
We Lit, Studio 7, Lincoln, NE
Selected Juried Shows
2021 Nebraska Biennial, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
Nebraska Biennial, Gallery 1516, Omaha
2019 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Eisentrager Howard Gallery, Lincoln
2018 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Eisentrager Howard Gallery, Lincoln
2017 30th annual UNL Undergraduate Competition, Eisentrager Howard
Gallery, Lincoln
Public Projects
2021 Slow Your Roll street mural, organized by South of Downtown Community
Development Organization and the neighborhood, 11th and B St, Lincoln
Chesnutt’s Shadow, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
2020 Black History Black Futures coloring book, organized by South of
Downtown Community Development Organization
9 Nebraskans murals, Lux Center for the Arts and Constellations Studios, Lincoln
Commissions
2021 F.U.B.U, mural with Patreon, Omaha, NE
The Charles Chestnutt Archive, University of Nebraska Lincoln and the New School for Design, https://chesnuttarchive.org/
2020 SISU hairdressing mural, Lincoln, NE
Selected Curatorial Work
2020 i miss you and i’m angry, Ghost Art Project, Omaha
Black Love, Black Futures, South of Downtown Art Hub, Lincoln
2019 Ripples of a Shared Narrative, South of Downtown Art Hub, Lincoln
Freedoms Fest, South of Downtown Art Hub, Lincoln
Anagramme, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln
2018 Black on Black, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln
2017 Crosswise Arrangements: with Zora Murf and Nathan Murray, Parallel Visions, Lincoln, NE
WHAT WE WEAR: Fashion in Conversation, Parallel Visions, Lincoln
Oria Simonini and Luis Angel Martinez at Parallel Visions, Parallel Visions, Lincoln
2016 Dear America, Parallel Visions, Lincoln
Parallel Visions November First Friday, Parallel Visions, Lincoln
Parallel Visions First Friday, Parallel Visions, Lincoln
Awards
2023 Mayor's Art Award for Artistic Achievement, Lincoln, NE
2022 Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grant
Nebraska Artist Fellowship, Nebraska Arts Council
2021 Artists Choice, Nebraska Biennial, Gallery 1516, Omaha, NE
2019 Thomas P. Coleman Memorial Award/Scholarship in Printmaking for 18’-19’ 2018 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, UNL Award Recipient
2014-2018 Kimmel Harding Scholarship, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Collections
2023 Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
Reflections on Power (draft one)
2022 Kathryn and Marc LeBaron, Lincoln Industries
Hunny
water me
2020 Nebraska History Museum, Lincoln, History in the Making Poster Project
2019 Omaha Public Library, special collections
Reflections on Power zine
2018 Thomas P. Coleman Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln
Reflections on Power [BFA thesis]
Colorado University Special Collections, Boulder, Co
Reflections on Power [print exchange]
AP/RC, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Reflections on Power [print exchange]
Residencies + Fellowships
2024 University of New Haven Teaching Fellow, West Haven, CT
Yale Peabody Summer Art Fellowship, New Haven, CT
2023 Royal Drawing School, Dumfries House Residency, Scotland
2021 Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala, NE, (June 21’)
BIPOC Residency at the Burkholder Project, Lincoln, NE (August 21’ - February 22’)
Lectures, Workshops, and Panels
2024 Creative Placemaking, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Nebraska Lincoln
2020 Artist talk, Nebraska Wesleyan University Art Club, Lincoln, NE
Employment
8/24 - present Teaching Fellow, University of New Haven
3/22 - 6/24 Fabric Lab Monitor and Yale Farm SOA liaison
7/2018 - 12/2021 Community Arts Organizer, South of Downtown Community Development Organization, Lincoln, NE
3/2018 - 5/2019 Retail Designer and Sales Associate, Gomez Art Supply, Lincoln, NE
2016 - 2017 Intern, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Curator, Parallel Visions, Lincoln, NE
Professional Service
2021 - 2022 Board member, Lincoln Arts Council, Lincoln, NE
Professional Certificates
11/15/2019 Artists Working in Community, SpringBoard for the Arts Training Intensive, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
Bibliography
2024 Marrows of Tradition . . . , Stephanie Browner, North Carolina Literary Review, Stephanie Browner
2023 Realist Artists on Realist Art, Jonathan Orozco, White Hot Magazine
2022 Exhibition presents striking portraits of Black Nebraskans, L. Kent Wolgamott, Lincoln Journal Star
Pressing Matters Issue 18, interview
Art in Embassies: Kampala, Uganda
2021 Siebler, Kay, Black Women Shattering Stereotypes, Rowman and Littlefield
2020 Black Love, Black Futures and the powerful art of Kat Wiese, Cindy Lang-Kubick, Lincoln Journal Star
The Prairie Schooner, Volume 94 # 3, cover art featuring “All Black” (2020)
2017 Parallel Visions Makes Space for Nebraska's Artists of Color, Vice Magazine
Zora J. Murff, Robert Mahoney, The Flatlander
Publications and Catalogs
2024 and the forms which linger humming in our ears, Yale MFA thesis catalog
2022 i made the cornrows: portraits of Black Nebraskans, Kiechel Fine Art