KATHIE HALFIN
Halfin presented her work in group exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art, (IL), Tennessee Tech University: Lakeview Galley (TN), Bronx Museum AIM Biennial (NY), Scandinavia House (NY), NARS Foundation, (NY), Immigrant Artist Biennial, (NY), AIR Gallery Brooklyn (NY), Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (NY), Halle 50 Gallery, Munich, Germany, Bells Gallery, Dothan, (AL), Ukrainian Institute Of America (NY), White Box Gallery, (NY). Halfin had a solo show at the Ely Center Of Contemporary Art, New Heaven, (CT).
In the last seven years, Halfin received fellowships at the AIM program: the Bronx Museum Of Art (NY) and she was awarded a full Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. Halfin had two months of full Educational Fellowship at Wassaic Project Residency (NY), she was an artist in residency at A-Z West (CA) and Cha North Residency (NY). She attended international residencies at the SIM Residency and The Icelandic Textile Center in Iceland and WWWoW Collaborative Weaving Fellowship funded by the city of Munich in Germany.
EDUCATION
2015 MFA Fine Arts at School of Visual Arts, New York 2004 B.Des. (Textile Design), Shenkar College of Engineering and Design – Ramat Gan, Israel
RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2024 SÍM Residency, Iceland
2024 Art Port Kingston Residency, NY
2022 Fully Funded Fellowship, Munich, Germany, "World Wide Weaving Of Women" in collaboration
with artist Doro Seror and a group of international female artists
2022 Icelandic Textile Center, Blönduós, Iceland
2022 A-Z West, CA, Weaving Residency
2021 Cha North Artist Residency, Pine Plains, NY
2018 Wassaic Project Residency, Wassaic, NY, fully funded educational Fellowship
2016 Bronx Museum AIM Program, Bronx, NY
2015 Vermont Studio Center Residency fully funded fellowship
2015 Paula Rhodes Memorial Award- honors Master degree candidates, whose work is deemed exceptional by their chair and faculty.
2011 School Of Visual Arts (Painting/Mixed Media), Artist-in-Residence, New York
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO SHOWS
Exhibitions / Installations
2025
Galerie Shibumi, New York — “Soft Power: Reimagining Form and Feeling” Group Show
N/A Project Space, New York (Upstate Art Weekend) — “String Theory” Group Show
The Future Fair, Chelsea, New York — Solo Booth, Daniela Mercuri Gallery
The Factory, Djúpavík, Iceland — “Sky Dancers” Group Show
2024
White Box, New York — “TerraTextl” Group Show
Scandinavia House, New York — New York Textile Month, “TEXTILE TAKEOVER” Group Show
Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech, Lakeview Gallery — “Woven Cosmos” Duo Show with Elizabeth Tolson
ARTPORT Kingston, New York — “Poetic Gestures” Group Show
Bells Gallery, Dothan, Alabama — “Every Fiber” Group Show
2023
NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York — Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: “Contact Zone”, “Enmeshed, Dreams of Water” Group Show
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), New York — “The Arc Project: Humans From Mundane to Mythical” Group Show
2022
Halle 50 Gallery, Munich, Germany — Group Show & Installation with WWWOW Collective
Ukrainian Institute of America, New York — “Ode to a Butterfly” Group Show
Trestle Project Space, Brooklyn, New York — “Parts Impart” Group Show
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, New York — “Re-Imagining Rural” Group Show
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA), Chicago — “Protest Art Virtual Exhibition” Group Show
2021
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Connecticut — “The Web of Magic and Mundane” Solo Show
2020
Bronx River Art Center, New York — Online Group Exhibition, video performance “Uprooted”
2017
NARS Foundation, New York — “Discrete Prehension” Multimedia Installation
AIM Biennial 2017, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York — “0 Gravity” Multimedia Installation
2016
A.I.R. Gallery, New York — “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, multimedia installation, “Thresholds” Group Show
School of Visual Arts, Brooklyn, New York — MFA Thesis Exhibition
“New York–New Work” MFA Biennial, New York — “0 Gravity” Multimedia Installation
2014
Gramercy Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York — “Boundaries” Group Exhibition
Performances
2023
NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, New York — Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: “Contact Zone”, Solo Performance “The Body Of Land And Water"
2022
EFA Studio Program, New York — Screening Program for Ukrainian Independence Day, video “Flower to Empower”
2019
Satellite Art Show, New York — “Performance Is Alive”, Solo Performance “Labor of Love”
NARS Foundation, New York — “The Weight of Temporary”, Video Performance “Flossing Time”
Immigrant Artist Biennial, Assembly Room, New York — Solo Performance “The Labor of Love”
Itinerant Performance Festival, Smack Mellon, New York — Solo Performance “Live Through It”
2018
Knockdown Center, New York — Sunday Series, Live Multimedia Performance “Matter in Flux”
Art in Odd Places 2018 BODY Performance Festival — Live Multimedia Performance “Hell Hath No Fury”
Borders Space, New York — Live Performance “Vortical Bodies in the Nomad Space”
2017
Periphery Space, Providence, Rhode Island — “Uproot” Exhibition, Live Multimedia Performance “Goya”
2016
Central Booking Art Space, New York — Video Projection “The Voice”