CV
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EDUCATION
2017 M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute
2015 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, San Francisco Art Institute
2012 B.S. Cum Laude, Skidmore College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Wheel of Dreams, Battery Park City Library, NYPL, New York, NY
2021
Fractured Truths, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2019
Ours, Gertrude & Alice Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Apparitions, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2016
Sugar Ghosts, Recology Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2025
Between Great Currents, Java Street Projects, Brooklyn, New York
2024
Eraser, performed by Sō Percussion, composed by Justin Wright, text by Kathy Sirico, Princeton University, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Emerging Dialogues in the Midnight Sun, Chen Art Gallery, CCSU, New Britain, CT
2024
Echoes of Paradise, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, New York
Embracing Excess, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, Maryland
2023
Trodden Path, Hesse Flatow East, Amagansett, New York
Annual Summer Group Show ‘23, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022
Annual Winter Group Show ‘22, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Summertime ’22, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Embracing 2022, THE GALLERY, New York, NY
2021
Forest Temple, Johnny Utah Projects, New York, NY
Annual Winter Group Show ‘21, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Large & Hung, Bushwood Land Gallery, Queens, NY
Variance, I Like Your Work, I Like Your Work Podcast virtual exhibition
Women’s Work: New Takes on Textile Art, Reeves House, Elm Street Cultural Arts Village, Woodstock, GA
Reclaimed: The Art of Recology, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Summertime ’21, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
Unraveled: Confronting the Fabric of Fiber Art, The Untitled Space, New York, NY
Group Show 5, Shrine, New York, NY
2020
Contrasting Shapes, Museu Têxtil, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Community, Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Interior/Exterior, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2018
Upcycled: Art from the Recology Artist in Residence Program, Student Union Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
8th Anniversary Show, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
From Vulva Cave to Kepler 452b, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
Tell Tale, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
Lucid Art Foundation Residency Annual Exhibition, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
Earth Action Climate Art Show, in conjunction with the Earth Action Climate Initiative 2018 Conference, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2017
2017-2018 SF Environment, Eco Center at San Francisco Environment Department, CA
Renegade Fiber, The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
Vernissage, The San Francisco Mint, San Francisco, CA
2016
Sub-se-quence, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Textale, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Post/Haste, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Touch of the Blues, ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation, Chicago, IL
2015
Collaborative Projects That Might Not Work, 176 Projects, San Francisco, CA
Knit Knit, Weave Weave, Sew Sew, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Post-Baccalaureate Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Self Portrait, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pop Up!, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
2025
Artica Svalbard, Longyearbyen, International Territory of Svalbard, Norway
Wildacres Residency, Environmental Artist-in-Residence, Little Switzerland, NC
2023
Changing Climate Artist Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico
The Arctic Circle Artist Residency, International Territory of Svalbard, Norway
2022
Frankenthaler Climate Art Award Finalist, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Asia Society
2020
Mass MoCA Assets for Artists Residency North Adams, MA
2018
Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency Fellowship, Johnson, VT
Gallery Route One Emerging Artist Fellowship, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2017
Lucid Art Foundation Artist Residency, Inverness, CA
2016
Recology Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA
ARTIST LECTURES
2025
Visiting Artist Lecture, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas (upcoming)
2024
Artist Lecture for 3D Approaches course, Zoom, University of Denver, Colorado
2023
“Interconnected: A Panel on Art & Climate”, Boulder County Arts Alliance, Colorado
Artist Lecture, Changing Climate Artist Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Arctic Circle Residency Lecture, International Territory of Svalbard, Norway
2019
Visiting Artist Lecture, College of Marin, Kentfield, California
Artist Lecture, Gallery Route One, San Francisco, California
2018
Artist Residency Lecture, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2016
Exhibition Lecture, Recology, San Francisco, California
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS
2025
“Kathy Sirico,” The Hopper, Summer Issue 2025, https://www.hoppermag.org/kathy-sirico.
“In Conversation with Kathy Sirico,” interviewed by Sandra De Miera, Arte Realizatta, https://www.arterealizzata.com/interviews/in-conversation-with-kathy-sirico
2024
Bogzaran, Fariba. A Place of Creation. San Francisco, Lucid Art Foundation, 2024.
“Meet Kathy Sirico,” CanvasRebel, https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kathy-sirico/
“Innovating Abstract Narratives: In Conversation with Kathy Sirico,” Museu Têxtil, https://museutextil.com/kathy_sirico.html
2022
“The Shortlist,” Frankenthaler Climate Art Award, https://climateartawards.org
2019
“Art /Community/Sustainability,” Recology San Francisco, https://youtu.be/Ucrrm8JylBc
“Interior/Exterior is the Design Exhibit Your Instagram Feed is Craving,” Architectural Digest, https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/interiorexterior-is-the-design-exhibit-your-instagram-feed-is-craving
“Ours: An Art Installation That Got Familiarly Intimate,” Bob Cut Mag
2018
“Art & Life with Kathy Sirico,” VoyageLA, http://voyagela.com/interview/art-life-kathy-sirico/
2017
“MFA/MA Exhibition First Look: Kathy Sirico,” San Francisco Art Institute: vimeo.com/217925826
2016
“Kathy Sirico Artwork: Material Reality in a Digital World,” The Afterlife of Discarded Objects, http://theafterlifeofdiscardedobjects.com
2015
“Catching up with artist Kathy Sirico: textile traditions, breaking the canon and the disappearing Arctic," the Modern Flâneur: https://themodernflaneure.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/catching-up-with-artist-kathy-sirico-textile-traditions-breaking-the-canon-and-the-disappearing-arctic/
ARTIST-LED WORKSHOPS
2025
Sustainable Fashion: Wear Your Values Weekend, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2023
Visiting Artist Mixed Media Workshop, The Nightingale Bamford School, New York, NY
2022
Mixed Media Youth Art Workshop, Battery Park City Library, NYPL, New York, NY
2019
Collaborative Sculpture Workshop, Gertrude and Alice Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Recycled Materials Sculpture Workshop, Recology, San Francisco, CA
CONFERENCES
2025
Climate Change Through the Lens of Art: 18th Annual Global Environmental Sustainability Symposium, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
2018
Earth Action Climate Initiative Conference, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
