COMMISSIONS, GRANTS, AWARDS, FAIRS
2021 RC Public Library Commission, curated by Fung Collaboratives, for Redwood City, CA
Exchange Place Alliance Commission, for Jersey City, NJ
Summit Public Art Commission for Summit Parkline Trail, Summit, NJ
2020 Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Mid Atlantic Arts Fdn
Summit Public Art Commission for Kaus Way, Summit, NJ
2019 14C Art Fair, represented by Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2018 Summit Public Art commission for Promenade Park, Summit, NJ
2017 Baltimore Purple Line Transit, semi-finalist, Hyattsville, MD
2016 Lake Cook Stormwater Treatment project, semi-finalist, Alexandria, VA
2015 20/20 Public Space Champion, awarded by the Design Trust for Public Space, NYC, NY
Carnegie Library Atrium, semi-finalist, Oregon City Public Library, Oregon City, OR
Brower Student Center, semi-finalist, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
2014 General Services Administration semi-finalist, Brookland Middle School. Washington, D.C.
2013 Artlantic commission, curated by Lance Fung/Fung Collaboratives, Atlantic City, NJ
NJ Transit commission for Newark Penn Station, Newark, NJ
2011 NJ Transit commission for Hoboken Ferry Slip, Hoboken, NJ
2010 NJ Transit commission for South Amboy Train Station, South Amboy, NJ
2006 NJ Transit commission for Newark-Elizabeth Light Rail Atlantic St. Station, Newark, NJ 2002
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Arts Initiative, Morristown, NJ
2001 NJ Transit Commission for Hudson-Bergen Light Rail System 22nd St. Station, Bayonne, NJ
2000-5 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Artist-in-Education Fellow, Trenton, NJ
1999 Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link Public Art Design Team Artist, NJ Transit, Newark, NJ
1998 Design Trust Fellowship for a Children’s Garden , Brooklyn, NY
1997 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 Exceptional Merit Award, “15th Annual Metro Show”, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Midden” site specific installation for Fresh Air Montclair, curated by Mary See, Montclair, NJ
2019 “Generations” works on paper, Hillside Square Gallery, Bravitas Group, Montclair, NJ
“Incubator”, site specific installation for Redwood City Art Kiosk, CA, curated by Fung Collaboratives
2016 “Before Brick City”, site specific installation for Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
“Overbooked”, site specific installation for Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
"Kate Dodd: Selected Works", The Orange, a pop-up gallery, Berkeley, CA,
2015 "False Spring", site specific installation for Baird Community Center, South Orange , NJ
2014 "Disposable Habits", site specific installation for Drawing Rooms, Jersey City , NJ
2013 "Composting Cars", site specific installation for The Pierro Gallery and Village of South Orange, NJ
2012 "Water: Illusions of Purity", indoor/outdoor site specific installation for The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
"History of Tau In(side) 100 Objects", site specific installation for The Pierro Gallery and Village of South Orange, NJ
2011 "Resurfacing", site specific installation for The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
2007 "Smoke and Mirrors", site specific installation for Rupert Ravens Contemporary Gallery, Newark, NJ
2004 "Time Frame", kinetic site specific installation for Union County College, Cranford, NJ
2002 "Bottle Bloom", site specific installation for Meadowland Park, South Orange, NJ
2001 “Woven Cognition”, photographic works, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
“You Are Here”, site-specific trail commissioned by Pierro Gallery, South Orange NJ
1999 “Growth”, site specific installation, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
1998 “Between The Lines”, site-specific installation, Rutgers University. Newark, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “All We Can Save”, 22 North Gallery, Ypsilanti MI, traveling to multiple venues
2020 “Ten Artists’ Prayer Flags At The Topps Building For JCAST”, curated by Anne Trauben, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City , NJ
“Vanishing Worlds”, curated by Yvette Lucas, 14 Maple Gallery, Morristown, NJ
2019 “On a Different Page”, curated by Eileen Ferrara, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ
“Mounds , Piles, and Massings”, curated by Greg Leshe, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
2018 “Somewhere We Landed”, curated by Anne Trauben, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City , NJ
“The Art Project”, curated by James Pustorino, The Art House, Jersey City, NJ
“Art That Binds”, curated by Christy O’Connor and Caroline Northrup, Atlantic Highlands Art Council, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
“The River Between Us”, Strasburg Biennial curated by Rupert Ravens, Shen MOCA, Strasburg, VA
“Approaching Vibrancy”, curated by Mary Birmingham and Sarah Walko, Morris Arts, Morristown, NJ
2017 “On a Different Page”, curated by Eileen Ferrara, NJ City University, Jersey City, NJ
“It’s Happening”, curated by Jennifer Lantzas, New York City Department of Parks, Central Park, NYC, NY
“Windows on Valley”, curated by Sandy Martiny, South Orange Dept of Cultural Affairs, South Orange, NJ
“Annual Sculpture Invitational”, curated by Tricia Zimic, Wildflower Sculpture Park, Essex County, NJ
2015 “Working the Unit”, curated by Jeanne Brasile, Index Arts Center, Newark, NJ
2014 “IN-SITE: the Intersection of Art and Architecture”, The Pierro Gallery and Village of South Orange, NJ
2014 “Thou Art Mom”, curated by Susan Evans Grove, The Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2013 "Warp and Woof", curated by Rupert Ravens, Rupert Ravens Nexxt, Paterson, NJ
2013 "Flow Follows Flow", curated by Rupert Ravens, Rupert Ravens Nexxt, Paterson, NJ
2012 "Submissions and Transmissions", curated by Rupert Ravens, Rupert Ravens Contemporary Gallery, Newark, NJ
2010 "Committed", curated by Judy Wukitsch, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
"Reaching Out/Reaching In", curated by Susan Napack, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2009 Bumpkin Island Artists Encampment exhibit, Fort Point Open Studio, Boston, MA
"Cutters", curated by Mary Birmingham, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ catalog
2007 "About Photography", curated by Robert Kosinski and Ed Fausty, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ catalog
2006 "Out There", NJ Arts Annual, curated by Beth Venn and Alyson Baker, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ catalog
2004 "Heavy Lifting", curated by Rick Mills, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ
"SculptFest '04", curated by Matthew Weber, the Carving Studio and Sculpture, West Rutland, VT
2003 “Vistas: Interventions in a Mediated Landscape”, curated by Denise Markonish, Mount Ida College, Newton, MA
“Bristol-Myers Squibb Sculpture Project”, curated by Kate Somers, BMS Campus, Hopewell, NJ catalog
2002 “100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints”, curated by Judith Brodsky, New Jersey State Museum, traveling to the Morris Museum and the Noyes Museum of Art, NJ catalog
“Changed Lives”, curated by Ellen Snyder-Grenier, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark NJ
“20th Anniversary of Outdoor Sculpture”, curated by Ursula Clark, Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, NYC
“Missing: Streetscape of a City in Mourning”, curated by City Lore, New York Historical Society, New York, NY
2000 “Walking Through - Ten Outdoor Installations”, curated by Carol Seitchek, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA catalog
“25th Anniversary Exhibition”, curated by Stephen Sennott, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
AFFILIATIONS
2016 - Manufacturers Village Artists, East Orange NJ, Steering Committee, Annual Studio Tour and Black Lives Matter Mural Project
2020 All We Can Save Artists, discussion group and traveling exhibition based on book of the same name
WRITING
2020 “Cabin Fever Artist Talks”, video commissioned by Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
“Worth the Wait”, Inside Track newsletter, ArtPride NJ Foundation
2019 “Force: Observations from the Interior”, review of Nancy Cohen exhibit at Kathryn Markel Fine arts for the delicious line.org
2018 “Somewhere Over the Interconnected Rainbow”, review of closing exhibit at Drawing Rooms for the Nieuw Art Blog
2017 “Harvest/Time”, review of Sup-A-Genius exhibit at Drawing Rooms for the Nieuw Art Blog
2016 “Overbooked”, interview with Amanda Heidel at Drawing Rooms for New Jersey State Council on the Arts
RESIDENCIES
2009 Bumpkin Island Artists Encampment, Berwick Institute, Boston, MA
2002 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Artist-in-Education Residency, Elsinboro, NJ
1997-9 South Orange/Maplewood School District, NJ
1996 Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, TX
1992 Cummington Community for the Arts Cummington, MA
1991 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1989 Vermont Studio School and Colony, Johnson, VT
EDUCATION
1990 Master of Fine Arts, Division of Painting and Sculpture, School of the Arts Columbia University, New York, NY
1983 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude Major: Sculpture, Minor: Ceramics, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY