Bio

Kathy Halper (1958, Chicago, IL) combines her interest in narrative art, hi-lo materials and humor to create oil paintings on canvas, as well as 3D mixed media paintings, hand embroidery and sculptures documenting her life, routines, comfort and anxiety. She warps perspectives and builds out objects using cardboard, clay, and other tools to tell stories in her unique voice. Halper has been a full-time self-taught artist for 30 years. Her work has been shown at George Billis LA, Muriel Guepin Gallery in New York, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, and Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago, among others. She is in the permanent collection of Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She was selected by Lucy Lippard for “From the Center: Now!” and Kendall College of Art & Design as part of ArtPrize and has participated in Terrain Biennial. She has been shown at Context/Miami Art Week, SOFA Chicago and has been featured in HuffPost, Art Voices and Surface Design Journal. A 2024 solo exhibition of Halper’s hand embroidered drawings took place at Albright College in Pennsylvania. The artist resides with her husband and dog in the Hudson Valley in NY.