Kathleen Kucka is an artist with a BFA from Cooper Union in New York City and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Pushing the boundaries of traditional painting, Kucka uses techniques such as burning, sewing, cutting, and pouring paint. She manipulates her materials to create highly tactile works that explore the tension between physical presence and visual perception.
Kucka’s work is in private and public collections, including the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; The Weatherspoon Art Museum; The Birmingham Museum of Art; and the BorusanContemporary Collection, Istanbul, Turkey,among others.
Her work has been written about in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Art News, Gay City News, Time Out, and Two Coats of Paint, among other publications.
Residencies include the Bemis Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska, and the Vermont Studio Center.
In 2016 Kucka’s work was included in the published book, New York Studio Conversations: Seventeen Women Talk about Art, by Stephanie Buhmann.
Kucka divides her time between New York City and Falls Village, CT