EDUCATION
1991-1993
M.F.A., Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

1987-1990
B.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1983-1987
B.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA

Paint
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2011

Recent Paintings
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2005

New Paintings
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2002

New Paintings
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 2000

EXHIBITIOINS

2011
Paint, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Chunks, Skydive Arts Space, Houston, TX

2010
Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, curated by Melissa Feldman

2007
Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
CCA 100 years, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Whistle, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
18 Painters, Visual Arts Gallery, Mt. Hood Community College, Portland, OR
CCA Centennial, Alumni and Faculty, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006
2006 Rose Bowl Flea Market Biennale, installation by Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento, Rose Bowl Flea Market, Pasadena, CA
Kathryn VanDyke, Pulium Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR (solo)
Landscapes and Episodes by Kathryn VanDyke and Arnold Kemp, marjoriewoodgallery.com

2005
Bay Area Bazaar, Pullium Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
New Paintings, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004-2005
Hearts in San Francisco”, San Francisco, CA
Botany 12, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
A LA Carte: A Roving Exhibition of Art for Popsicle Prices, Pond, San Francisco, CA

2003
Make-Shift World, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Site Unseen, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
CCA Alumni Exhibition Series, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002
"New Paintings," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Orange, !hey!, Oakland, CA

2001
2000 SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
New Work, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Kathryn VanDyke, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)

2000
New Paintings, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Flat File: Pierogi 2000, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; exhibition traveled to POST, Los Angeles, CA
Eye Candy: West & East Coast Contemporary Women Painters,” traveling exhibition: Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University San Bernardino; Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton
Knowing You, Knowing Me, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

1999
Beholding Beauty: Bay Area Curators Explore Modern and Post-Modern Beauty, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

1998
New Paintings, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Work, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
Deep Forest: When Urgency Becomes Form, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
SAP, Lanai Motel, San Francisco, CA

1997
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Post-Postcard, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
"...art is cheap but priceless...," Four Walls, San Francisco, CA

1996
Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Les Precieuses: Joyce Burstein, Leonie Guyer, Laurie Reid, Kathryn VanDyke, Push Artspace, San Francisco, CA
Landscape, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
Optimism and Sarcasm, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Chance and Desire, SITE, Los Angeles, CA

1995
Introductions, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Happy Accidents, Musings, and Follies, SITE, Los Angeles, CA
Kathryn VanDyke, UOP Gallery, Stockton, CA
New Works, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1994
6 x 9, Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS

2000
SECA Art Award from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Bay Area Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts

1993
Helen W. Winternitz Award from Yale School of Art

1990
Robert Rawls Memorial Merit Scholarship from California College of Arts and Crafts

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010
Baker, Kenneth. “Afterglow Inspires Rethinking,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 7

2008
Wood, Sura, “Meridian Gallery: Art as Tool for Social Change.” SFArts.Org, April 2008,

2006
Butler, Connie, “Out There”,  New American Paintings, January 2006,  No. 61, vol. 10, issue 6, p. 146-149
Josseph Gallivan. “For city art watchers, it’s a forest out there”, The Portland Tribune, April 4, 2006.
…”First Thursday”, www.urbanhonking.com.
John Motley, “Visual Art”, Portland Mercury, April 27,2006, p. 45.

2003
Richard Janku, Laura. “Kathryn VanDyke: New Paintings,” Contemporary, Issue 47/48

2002
Baker, Kenneth. “Kathryn VanDyke at Wirtz,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, p.C1
Cash, Stephanie. “Report from San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving,” Art in America, November, pp.58-67; p.69

2001
Baker, Kenneth. "Award Winners Put to the Test," San Francisco Chronicle, Feburary 3, p.B1
Bonetti, David. "Two Big Art Shows About Changing Times," San Francisco Chronicle, January 13
Catalogue published in conjunction with SECA Art Award exhibition, Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ARTnews, February, p.68
"The 2000 SECA Art Award Winners Introduce Their New Work," Open:The Magazine of the SFMOMA, Winter/Spring, pp.23, 39, 41

2000
Coleman, Sarah. "Knowing You, Knowing Me," San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 17, p.123
Craddick, Hannah. “the scene,” San Francisco Magazine, April, p.119
____. "SECA announces award winners," Artweek, June, p.2
____. "Headlands announces Year 2000 residencies," Artweek, February
Morris, Barbara. "'Knowing You Knowing Me' at The Lab," Artweek, June
____. "Strange Reflections," Marin Independent Journal, October 16
Levine, Karen A “Jasper Johns’s Lands End: A Conversation with Kathryn Van Dyke,” Open: The Magazine of the SFMoMA, Fall, 2000, p. 44

1999
Asche, Jennifer. "Marin Artists Join Exhibition of Beauty in Many Shapes," SF Gate, February 26
Asche, Jennifer. "East Bay Curators Help Bedford Show Define Beauty," SF Gate, February 5

1998
Bonetti, David. “Art Scene is Alive,” San Francisco Examiner, October 11, p.D-7
Bonetti, David. “Art by Numbers,” San Francisco Examiner Magazine, September 20
Bonetti, David. “Gallery Watch,” San Francisco Examiner, March 27, p.D11
Cabello/Carceller. “San Francisco renace en el fin de siglo,” El Periodico Del Arte, October 15
Freedman, Marcy. “night + day: Kathryn Van Dyke: New Work,” SF Weekly, February 25-March 3
Roby, Diane. “‘Deep Forest: When Urgency Becomes Form’ at four walls,” Artweek, March

1997
Cohn, Terri. “Fin De Siecle Painting: A conversation with Kathryn Van Dyke, painter,” Artweek, September, Vol.28, no.9
Bonetti, David. “The Young at Art,” San Francisco Examiner, June 18, pp.C1,C4

1996
Roche, Harry. “Untitled,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 4
Bonetti, David. “Return of the Abstract at Mills College,” San Francisco Examiner, December 6

1995
Baker, Kenneth. “ Emerging Artists Are Worth A Look,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 7
Jan, Alfred. “3 Compelling Artists & More,” Artist Writer, September

1994
ZYZZYVA, Fall

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA