KATHIE HALFIN
Kathie Halfin was born in Crimea, Ukraine and raised in Israel. She is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working in fiber media, installation and performance art. Halfin earned her Masters with honors in Fine Arts from the School Of Visual Arts, (NY) and Bachelors from Shenkar College in Israel. Halfin presented her work in group exhibitions at the Bronx Museum AIM Biennial (NY), The Immigrant Artist Biennial, (NY), AIR Gallery Brooklyn (NY), and Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NY. Halfin had a solo show at the Ely Center Of Contemporary Art, New Heaven, (CT).
Halfin presented her performances at the Immigrant Artist Biennial: Contact Zone, Itinerant Performance Festival in Smack Mellon ( NY), Knockdown Center: Sunday Series, (NY), Art In Odd Places Performance Festival, (NY).
Halfin has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Icelandic Textile Center in Iceland and Cha North Residency (NY). She was an AIM fellow at the Bronx Museum Of Art (NY) and received a full Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. Halfin had two months of full Educational Fellowship at Wassaic Project Residency (NY) and was an artist in residency at A-Z West (CA).
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, (Upcoming)
2024 Art Port Kingston Residency, NY (Upcoming)
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
2024 Tennessee Tech-Appalachian Center For Craft, Lakeview Gallery, "Woven Cosmos" duo show with Elizabeth Tolson (upcoming)
2024 Poetic Gestures group show, ARTPORT Kingston, NY
2024 Bells Gallery, Dothan, AL, Group Show "Every Fiber" (upcoming)
2023 The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: Contact Zone, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, Group show, “Enmeshed, Dreams Of Water”
2023 BWAC, NY, Group Show “The Arc Project: Humans From Mundane To Mythical”