ABOUT KATHLEEN
Kathleen Saunders (b. Fairfax VA) works in a wide spectrum of media, often using the landscape as a vehicle to explore one's continuous quest for joy among a spectrum of loss, grief, absurdity, and ecstasy. With this in mind, she ultimately questions what it means for us to find satisfaction and contentment in life, particular against the dwindling American Dream.
Kathleen lives in Charleston, SC where she can be found gardening, sewing, inventing new cocktails and making more art. She works full-time as a captain, specializing in sailing yachts. Sail with her!
Education
2017 Florida State University, MFA Studio Art
2013 College of Charleston, BA Photography
Publications
2020 Sinkholes of Florida, risograph photobook, Drum Machine Editions
Permanent Collections
2022 Sinkholes of Florida, Bergen Art Book Library, Entrée Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Fairs, etc.
2023 Sinkholes of Florida, Endpaper: NCMA Art Book Fair
2023 Sinkholes of Florida, Athens Art Book, Print, and Zine Fair
2023 Sinkholes of Florida, Columbus Art Book Fair
2022 Sinkholes of Florida, Asheville Zine Fest 2022
2022 Sinkholes of Florida, Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair, Online Edition (Austria)
2022 Sinkholes of Florida, Nite Market at Different Wrld
2022 Sinkholes of Florida, Asheville Zine Fest
2022 Sinkholes of Florida, DME + Seether at REVOLVE
2022 Sinkholes of Florida, DME + Seether at Pollen
2021 Sinkholes of Florida, Printed Matter + EXILE Books at NADA Miami
2021 Sinkholes of Florida, Vancouver Art Book Fair, 10th Annual (Canada)
2021 Sinkholes of Florida, Printed Matter Art Book Fair
2020-21 Sinkholes of Florida, Bergen Art Book Fair (Norway)
2015 Aqua Art Miami, Art Basel, Miami FL
Solo Exhibitions
2016 A Quietness Distilled, Solo Exhibition, The Front, New Orleans LA
2016 Subtropical, Solo Exhibition, SOUP Experimental, Tallahassee FL
Group Exhibitions
2017 Are you dying in the desert?, Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee FL
2015 Aqua Art Miami, Art Basel, Miami FL
2015 Concrete Acquaintances, Thomas Dean Fine Art, Atlanta GA
2015 Breaking Point, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee FL
2015 Raw, Working Method Contemporary, Tallahassee FL
2013 ArtFields, Regional Art Fair, Lake City SC
2013 Young Contemporaries, President’s Choice Award for Best in Photography, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston SC
2013 Plain China, October Edition, National Publication
2012 Young Contemporaries, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston SC
2012 Ways of Seeing, Rebekah Jacob Gallery, Charleston SC
Residencies
2016 Residency with Dorland Mountain Arts Colony