- Joan Mitchell Foundation: Painters & Sculptors Grants awarded to Kate Newby
Congratulations to NZ-born artist Kate Newby, who has been awarded one of twenty-five Painters & Sculptors Grants facilitated by the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Kate Newby is represented by Michael Lett in New Zealand.
The annual Painters & Sculptors Grants, first awarded in 1994, provide unrestricted funds of $25,000 each to a diverse group of 25 artists. Selected through a tiered process of nomination and jurying, these grants seek to recognize artists who are making exceptional work, who are deserving of greater acknowledgment on a national level, and who will benefit from the recognition and funding that the award provides.
Over the last 26 years, the Painters & Sculptors Grants have supported more than 500 artists in communities across the US, often at crucial times in their career. By providing unrestricted funds, we give grant recipients the freedom to decide how best to further develop their work and careers.
Kate Newby was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and is based in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include: Nothing in my life feels big enough, Cooper Cole, Toronto (2019); Wild was the night, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (2019); A puzzling light and moving, lumber room, Portland, OR (2019); Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2018); I can’t nail the days down, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2018); All the stuff you already know, The Sunday Painter, London (2018); Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (2017); and I feel like a truck on a wet highway, Lulu, Mexico City (2014). She has been included in recent group exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Art : Concept, Paris (2019); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2019); 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg (2018); and SculptureCenter, NY (2017), among others. Kate has undertaken residencies at The Chinati Foundation, TX (2017), Artpace, TX (2017), Fogo Island (2013), and International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York (2012).
"I am committed to putting pressure on the limits and nature of sculpture. I am invested not only in space, volume, texture, and materials, but where and how sculpture happens. My installations draw directly from their situational contexts in different cities, specific natural environments, and the interrelationships between." –Kate Newby