Bio – KJG Artworks – Kathleen J Graves has shown work in New York, Long Island, Philadelphia, Virginia, Miami, Colorado, Havana Vieho, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Italy and South Korea in museums, exhibitions and galleries. Graves is a photographer focused on climate issues, endangered animals, environmental portraits and concepts about Artificial Intelligence. Graves works and draws her images through the computer and tablet. She prints her work in large format.
Graves moved to Denver in April, 2023 from New York. In August 2024, she opened a Studio/Gallery in the Arts District at 900 Santa Fe Drive, Studio B.
Graves has shown in group exhibitions in Denver, Colorado during 2024-25. ‘Compartmentalize’ at the Lakewood Cultural Arts Center, The ‘Power of Purpose’ and ‘Photography Unbound’ at the Niza Knoll Gallery, ‘Layers of Our Story’ collaborating with CU Denver photo students for the Month of Photography. ‘Get Loud’ at the Rose Andom Center, ‘Up Close and Personal’, ‘the SPACE between’ curated by Kristina Davies, and ‘Doubt and Its Double’ at The Lab on Santa Fe.
In 2022-23 Graves participated in ‘Flora and Fauna’ at the Huntington Arts Council – Link and ‘Media Relay: An Exhbition in Two Parts’ at PS122 Gallery in NYC. Link. She was an artist panelist for Earth Day at the Parrish Art Museum, ‘Water Quality, Cultural Practices & Environmental Activism, Watermill, New York. Link. Graves was curated into the ‘GELI Digital Portfolio’ that was placed in the collections of the Zuccaire Gallery at the Staller Center, Watermill Center, Patchogue Arts Council and the Parrish Museum, NY. Link.
Graves curated and produced an exhibition in 2021 called ‘Pandemonium – Nature and Time’ Link, at 12 Bell St, Bellport, NY, September 17 – October 31, 2021. Pandemonium was a group show with 8 distinctive artists, including herself. Each artist conveyed interpretations, both visual and thought provoking, of the shows title. Graves held 2 Artist’s Talks and a Movie Night with a discussion afterward. Interview.
In 2020 Graves had a second solo exhibition ‘Midtown and Beyond’ at the MK Gallery outside of Washington DC that was reviewed in the Washington Post. In 2019 the artist was part of ‘Microcosmo’ at the Museo di Palazzo Doria Pamphilj In Valmontone (Roma). In 2017 she had a solo exhibition ‘Breath:Nature’ at Lapomme Museum in Cheongju, South Korea. Graves exhibited a video ‘Tweakie’ and ‘Gentle Botanist Bots’, a Bot Study, at The Street Museum in Seoul.
Spanning 2014 – 2016 Graves exhibited her Dark Garden work in Barletta, Italy, Seoul and Suwon, South Korea. Called ‘De Bello Naturae – della natura, le sfide’ (‘The Beauty of Nature – the fight with nature’), these exhibitions included three artists and, in Korea, a fourth artist from Seoul was added.
Importantly, in 2015 Graves showed a Dark Garden work photographed in Cartegena, Colombia at The Center for Visual Art in Denver, Colorado.
Creating a Site Specific Installation for Federico Fusi’s the Inner Room, Graves called it ‘The Poetry of Change’, Siena, Italy, 2014. The installation traveled to the Santa Maria della Scala in Siena.
Here are two Selected Reviews: Huffington Post, ‘Kathleen J Graves’ Passionate Art Advocacy of the Environment, Jacqueline Bishop, January 2014. Link. dis magazine, ‘The Body Electric: Graves New World, Legacy Russell, September 29, 2012. Link.
Honored, Graves was curated into Miami Basel by John Hanhardt in ‘Framing the Moving Image’, December 2013. In 2014 these 3 works called ‘Bot Studies – Storm Bot, Storyteller Bot and Swarm of Letters Bot’ became part of the Cricket Taplin Collection and continued to show at the Sagamore Art Hotel in Miami Beach. Link.
Other shows include ‘Light and Life: Contemporary Landscapes‘ in NYC curated by Heather Dell – 2012, ‘Art that Iterates’ at Columbia University in NYC exhibiting Garden Bots and Bot Studies curated by Sean Justice – 2012. ‘Controlling Fake Robot’ in Margins at NYU – 2010. A solo show ‘Slips of Happiness’ with the artist Antonio Trimani at the Frida Arte Galleria d’art Contemporanea -2009 in Bari, Italy. ‘Longing for Certain Things’ using medieval themed imagery interlacing current technology at NYU – 2009. She was a guest artist at ArtMill in the Czech Republic culminating in an exhibition called ‘Pensive’ at the Galerie Califia – 2012. Graves was gratified to experience and be part of an International Colloquium and Exhibition in Havana, Cuba – 2008. In 2003-4 Graves developed a significant digital body of work called ‘Grrlz’ consisting of portraits and one video. These were shown at the Lyceum Gallery, Riverhead, NY.
In conclusion, KJGraves was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art at New York University. She also taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Pratt Manhattan and the International Center of Photography in NYC. Graves built and directed the Advanced Digital Print Studio at NYU between 2005-2012. She taught the Large Format Digital Print and Artists Methods using the computer. Graves is a practicing artist in Denver, Colorado.
Two Catalogues are available:
‘De Bello Naturae della natura, le sfide’, July 2016, Exhibition Publication – Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Art and Real Movement, Seoul, South Korea.
‘Papertails’, Curated by Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond, Essay – Maggie Wright, 2011, Finlay Printing, Hartford, CT ISBN: 978-0-9829861-3-4.
Contact me if you want a catalogue at kjg.pandemonium@gmail.com. Thank you.
Public Collections:
~NYU Langone Art Program and Collection, Katherine Meehan – Curator, New York, New York.
~Cricket Taplin Collection, Sagamore Art Hotel, Miami Beach, FL.
~Kunstalle Bremen, Germany.
~Centro Cultural Pablo de Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba.
~Video Collection, Museo di Palazzo Fortuny, Venizia, Italia.
~The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY.
~Acadia Summer Art Program, Mt. Desert, ME.
~Center for Human Investment Policy, CU Denver, Denver CO.
