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EDUCATION:
2019, NYS Initial Teaching Certification, Visual Art PK-12, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
2005, MFA, Print Media, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000, BFA, Painting, The New York State University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY magma cum laude
Solo & two-person exhibitions
2015 Katherine Sehr: Small Obsessions, Western New York Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2013 Katherine Sehr: The Linear Truth, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, curated by Nina Freudenheim
2010 Meticulous Meditations, Olean Public Library Art Gallery, Olean, NY, curated by Cynnie Gaasch
2009 Katherine Sehr and Toshi Miki, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM, curated by Dwight Hackett
2008 Katherine Sehr: Paper Thin Walls, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, curated by Nina Freudenheim
2007 Katie Sehr and Heather Gabriel, Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery, Beacon, NY
Select group exhibitions
2023
Wonders, Wild, and New, The COMMA Fine Art Gallery, East Aurora, NY
Hallwalls’ 2023 Members Exhibition, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2023 NYSATA Members Exhibition, Villa Maria College, Buffalo NY
Strata - Modern Meanderings & Meditations Across Media, Dolce Valvo Art Center, Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NY curated by James Goodrich.
2021
Hindsight: Teacher is Artist Exhibition, Buffalo Arts Studio, curated by Michele Agosto, Director of Arts, BPS.
2020
20/20 Vision: Woman Artists in WNY, Castellani Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, curated by Michael Beam
2019
Monochrome, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Donna Harkavy
2018
Ten Years In, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY, co-curated by Nancy Weekly, Burchfield scholar, head of collections, and Charles Cary Rumsey Curator, and Scott Propeack, director and chief curator, with the assistance of Registrar Robert Cutrona
Big Time: a member’s show, El Museo, Buffalo, NY
2017
Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, Buffalo AKG, Buffalo, NY, curated by Godin Spaulding and Holly H. Hughes
Transform, SUNY Buffalo State Art Education Student and Alumni Exhibition, Czurles-Nelson Gallery, Upton Hall, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
Process, Project 308 Gallery, North Tonawanda, NY, curated by Natalie Brown
2016
8th Annual Member’s Exhibit, Western New York Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Hallwall’s 2016 Members Show, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, curated by John Massier
2015
7th Annual Members’ Exhibit, Western New York Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Emerging/Converging V, Damon Morey in association with Indigo Art, Buffalo, NY, curated by Elizabeth Samuels
7th Annual Artspace Buffalo Residents’ Art Exhibition, Buffalo, NY
Members’ Exhibition, CEPA Gallery/Big Orbit, Buffalo, NY. Juror: Cathleen Chaffee, Albright-Knox curator
2014
6 Ways: 6 women, 6 mediums, Stangler Fine Art and Contemporary Craft Orchard Park, NY
Wellspring, Indigo Art, Buffalo, NY, curated by Elizabeth Samuels
Over the Edge: Paperworks Unbound, Williamsburg Arts and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Displacement: Barge Prototype, Burchfield Penney Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Members Show, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, curated by John Massier
4th Annual Emerging Converging Art Exhibition, Damon Morey in association with Indigo Art, Buffalo, NY, curated by Elizabeth Samuels
Horsepower: 6th Annual Artspace Buffalo Residents’ Art Exhibition, Buffalo, NY, curated by Kristin Brandt
2013
NJC: Works on Paper 2013, The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
2012
Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Buffalo AKG, Buffalo, NY, David Pagel curator
Artists Among Us II, Burchfield Penney Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2011
Black & White and Big Cool, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, curated by Nina Freudenheim
Overabundance of Detail, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY. Curators: Tullis Johnson, curator, Scott Propeack, associate director/chief curator, Ted Pietrzak, former director
2009
Abstract Alternatives, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, curated by Nina Freudenheim
Settled; Second Annual Residents Exhibition, Artspace Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, curated by Kristin Brandt
Anonymous Drawing/archive selection 2009, fruehsorge, Berlin, Germany
2008
Area Artist Show, Buffalo AKG Collector’s Gallery, Buffalo, NY. (Curator’s Choice)
Inaugural Artspace Resident Exhibition, Artspace Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, curated by Joanna Gillespie
On Paper 1 at The Bushnell, Paper New England, Hartford, CT
2007
Artists Among Us, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Apparition, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Beyond/In Western New York 2007, The Carnegie Arts Center, Tonawanda, NY, curated by Ellen Ryan, former director of the Carnegie Arts Center
The Art of Sacrifice, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
Soft, Tilt Gallery and Project Space, Portland, OR
Made in New York 2007, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY (Second place) Jurors: Michael A. Sickler, Syracuse University professor of art and art history and Buzz Spector, former professor and past Cornell University art department chair
Selection, Bluetenweiss, Hamburg, Germany
39th Niagara Frontier Art Exhibition, The Kenan Center, Lockport, NY. Juror: Holly Hughes, Albright-Knox Art Gallery associate curator
Area Artists Show, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Collectors Gallery, Buffalo, NY. (Curator’s Choice)
Transience: The Parodox of Being, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc., Athens, GA. Curators: Katy Logue Thompson/Christopher McKay
Art Movements Past & Present, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA. Curator: Holly McCullough, Telfair Museum of Art curator of fine art and exhibitions
2006
Repetitive Gestures, Steamboat Springs Arts Council, Steamboat Springs, CO. (Merit Award) Juror: Jane Moffit
Far from Home, Brooklyn Artist’s Gym, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Dana Gentile
It’s Not You, It’s Me, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, Curator: John Massier, Hallwalls visual arts curator
Members Exhibition, The Carnegie Arts Center, North Tonawanda, NY. (First Place) Juror: Holly Hughes, Albright-Knox Art Gallery associate curator
Terror, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Size Matters, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL. Curator: Lari R. Gibbons, Pan American Art Gallery
2005
New Directions 05, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. (Second Place) Juror: Steven Evans, Dia:Beacon, former managing director
2004
Emerging Illinois Artists, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington IL. Curator: Alison Hatcher
Fairs
2011-2013 echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY
2008 Art Miami, represented by Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2007 & 2008 The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Buffalo, NY
Press
“Persistent Pursuit: Katherine Sehr,“ The Public, Pat Pendleton (February 2015)
“A Feast for the Senses at Burchfield Penney,” The Buffalo News, Colin Dabkowski (February 2011)
“Meet Katie Sehr,” Artvoice, J. Tim Raymond (January 2011)
“Art on View: Drawings get their due and more,” Buffalo Spree Elizabeth Licata (October 2008)
“Yes, Sehr,” The Buffalo News, Colin Dabkowski (June 13, 2008)
“Into the Biennial,” Artvoice, Becky Moda (December 11, 2007)
“North Stars,” The Buffalo News, Colin Dabkowski (2007)
“Close to Home,” The Buffalo News, Richard Huntington, (August 25, 2006)
Artist Talks
2023 The Comma Fine Art Gallery, East Aurora, NY
2017 SUNY Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
2015 Western New York Book Arts Center, Buffalo NY
2013 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY
2008 The Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo, NY
2007 Havergal College, Toronto, Canada
2002 Havergal College, Toronto, Canada
2002 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, March Slide Forum, Visual Arts Committee, Buffalo NY
Past Representation
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Permanent Public Collections
University at Buffalo’s Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Buffalo AKG, Buffalo, NY
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo NY
The Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo, NY
Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection, housed in the John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Corporate and Non Profit Collections
First Niagara
Hodgson Russ LLP
Barclay Damon LLP
Benefit Auctions
2024, Live on Five Art Auction, Buffalo Arts Studio Buffalo, NY
2023, (716) Art Auction, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2023, Mid-Summer Night’s Drawing Rally & Silent Auction, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2023, Live on Five, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo NY
2022, Burchfield Penney Arts Center Auction, Buffalo, NY
2022, Sunflowers for Solidarity Benefit Auction I & II, Buffalo NY
2022, Live on Five, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo NY
2020-2021, Live on Five, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
2019, (716) Art Auction, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2019-2021, Burchfield Penney Art Center Auction and Gala, Buffalo NY
2015 Western New York Book Arts Center, Liquor and Letterpress, Buffalo NY
2015 Neglia Ballet and TargetCancer Foundation, Dancing to Live, Buffalo, NY
2011-2014 Western New York Book Arts Center New Year’s Eve Gala and Auction, Buffalo, NY
2012-2014 Burchfield Penney Art Center Auction & Gala, Buffalo, NY
2012, 2014, 2016 Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Mid-Winter Drawing Rally & Silent Auction, Buffalo, NY
2011 Buffalo on the Bowery, Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Elmwood Franklin School, Buffalo, NY
2006, Red Cross Buffalo Chapter, Buffalo NY
Awards and recognition
2020-2024 Teachers for Tomorrow Grant, Buffalo Public Schools, Buffalo, NY
2017 Living Legacy Artist Grant, The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2008 “Most Interesting Artist Under 30,” Best of WNY, Buffalo Spree Magazine, Buffalo, NY
2008 Colby Artist, The Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo, NY
2007 The Sheila Whalen Memorial Award for Best Drawing, The Kenan Center, Lockport, NY
2000 Philip and Virginia Cuthbert Award for Painting, UB Department of Art, Buffalo, NY
Boards
2018 - 2022: Former el Museo Board Member
2020 - Present: Roswell Cancer Institute Art Committee Member