Katherine Leisen
3023 Cochrane, Detroit, MI 48216
kathyleisen@hotmail.com
Education
BFA, Painting, Eastern Michigan University 1999
Awards
Edward Austin Abbey Mural Fund Fellowship
National Academy of Fine Arts, New York, NY 2007
Residencies
Three Walls Tinkertank Residency, Chicago, IL 2008
Fall Fellowship, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI 2008
Many-Mini Residency, Berlin, Germany 2008
Takt Residency, Berlin, Germany 2008
Fall Residency, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI 2007
Assistantships
Hubert Massey Murals, Summer 2006
Assistant to Hubert Massey on the fresco mural
Earth, Wind, Fire and Water commissioned by the
Flint Museum of Art
Bibliography
New American Paintings #77, 2008
Vision Magazine, Respected Artists in Detroit
Beijing, China 2008
Ox-Bow School of Art, Art on the Meadows
Catalog Cover Summer 2008
Metro Times Detroit, 9/5/2007 Phoney Art
Detroit Today, WDET 101.9FM 9/2007
Voices of the Unknown, by Dorene O’Brien
Book Cover, Wayne State University Press 2006
Discography
Soft Location, Diamonds and Gems LP
Senseless Empire Records 2007
Muddy Mitten Records 2007
Selected 2D Exhibitions
2009
Detroit 2-D, Scene Metrospace, Lansing, MI
Taurus Burns & Kathy Leisen, Woodbridge Pub, Detroit, MI
2008
Small Works, Design 99, Hamtramck, MI
Random Variables, Takt Kunstprojektraum Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007
Andersens Collection, Detroit Industrial Project, Detroit, MI
Flag, Group installation on pedestrian bridge, Detroit, MI
Wish You Were Here, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI
Guns, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, MI
Newer Works, Smaller Works, Detroit Repertory Theatre, Detroit, MI (Solo)
Detroit Next, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
The Telephone Game, Johannson Charles Gallery, Detroit, MI
Automation, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI
Divided and United, Bagley Housing Project, Detroit, MI
2006
Kathy Leisen, Vickers Theatre, Three Oaks, MI (Solo)
Izzy Presents, Izzy’s Raw Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
Members Exhibit, Detroit Artists Market, MI
2005
Group Show, Commonwealth Gallery, Detroit, MI
Life Management, Motor City Brewery, Detroit, MI (Two person)
2004
Three Artists, Cass Café, Detroit, MI
The Portrait Club Presents: Heino, Detroit Art Space, Detroit, MI
2003
Fields Expo, Cass Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
Live Free or Die, C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI
The Ides, Free 103 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Three Birds, Antagonistic Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Spaces & Places, Free 103 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Solo)
2000
Postings, Silver Meteor Gallery, Tampa, FL (Two person)
1999
Who Murdered Reality, Stuart & Mills Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curatorial Projects
2007
Telephone Game, Johannson Charles Gallery, Detroit, MI
Co-curator with Ben Hernandez, conceptual 11-artist project based on the children’s game “Telephone” exploring memory and interpretation
2004
The Portrait Club Presents: Heino, Detroit Art Space, Detroit, MI
Curator of Group Exhibition, conceptual project using the genre of portraiture to explore fame and obscurity
2003
The Ides, Free 103 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Curator of Group Exhibition dealing with concepts of place and identity
Multimedia Exhibitions
Performances
2008
Soft Location: Worthless
Opening of the exhibition Soft Scrap, 1401 Bagley, Detroit, MI
Cabin Fever, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck MI
Snails and Frills, Takt Projektum Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007
Neon Night School Teaser #3, Bohemian National Home, Detroit, MI
S Loca, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Neon Night School, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2006
Tender Spot, Works Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Softer Locations, The Boiler Room, Detroit, MI
Musical Scores
Don’t Blink, Musical Score with Ben Good to shadow puppet play with Carrie Morris shown at the Twitch Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI 2006
Apartment Night, Animation and Score with Benjamin Hernandez shown at the Johannson-Charles Gallery, Detroit, MI 2007
Set Design
The Ronnie Herpes Story, Collective: Unconscious, New York, NY 2002