2023 — Brown University, BA in the Visual Art and Art History, with Honors, Magna Cum Laude
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2026 — (Upcoming Solo Show, Untitled), Laurel Gitlen, Brooklyn, NY
2025 — Tarped, S&S Cornershop, Springs, NY
2024 — Baiting Hollow (with Sylvia Atwood), Paper Nautilus, Providence, RI
2023 — Sweet Globe, List Art Center, Providence, RI
2022 — As Above So Below, List Art Center, Providence, RI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Second Nature, Duck Creek Arts Center, East Hampton, NY
2026 — Out of the Woods, Gallery 851, East Hampton, NY
2026 — Domestic (3): Lunch Paintings, Laurel Gitlen, Brooklyn, NY
2026 — Horse Show, curated by Lola Simon and Fiona Jacobson Yang, Brooklyn, NY
2025 — Field Notes, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO
2023 — Arcana, Folly Tree Arboretum, Springs, NY
2023 — SURP, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
2022 — Our Sensational, Dull Universe, List Art Center, Providence, RI
2022 — Radish, List Art Center, Providence, RI
2022 — Summer Residency Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2022 — Rising Senior Show, List Art Center, Providence, RI
2021 — Objects of Memory, Brown/RISD Hillel Gallery, Providence, RI
2021 — It's Alive!, List Art Center, Providence, RI
RESIDENCIES
2026 — In Situ Polyculture Residency, Westminster, VT
2024 — Chautauqua Institution Summer Residency, Chautauqua, NY
2022 — Residency Program at the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
AWARDS
2023 — Ann Belsky Moranis Prize, Brown University. Awarded to a Senior Visual Arts student in the graduating class. Selected by the department faculty members, the honored student displays exceptional skills, creativity, and is independently driven to excel in their field.
2023 — Saxena Undergraduate Paper Prize, Brown University. Awarded by the South Asian Studies department for art-historical research: "Yantra and Mantra: Aesthetic, Symbolic, and Ritual Unifiers."
2023 — Wendy Edwards Fellowship Award and Grant, Brown University
2022 — Wendy Edwards Fellowship Award and Grant, Brown University
2021 — Brown Arts Initiative Grant, Brown University
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
2026 — Teaching artist at Artech, AHRC, Queens, NY
2026 — Instructor at Folly Tree Arboretum Storytelling Workshop, Springs, NY
2026 — Studio Assistant to Isla Hansen, Springs, NY
2025 — Painting and Printmaking Staff at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
2024–2025 — Manager at S&S Cornershop, Springs, NY
2022 — Support Staff at Laying Groundwork Foundation, Paonia, CO
2021–2022 — Studio monitor at Brown University, Providence, RI
2020 — Farmhand at Gita Nagari Farm, Port Royal, PA
2019 — Gallery assistant at Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
OTHER
2027 — New York Zen Center, Foundations in Contemplative Care Program participant
Kate Salke (Los Angeles, 2000) is an artist based in New York.
Butterflies, stacked stones, bells, and sleeping bags recur in Kate Salke's paintings. These symbols are personal, but they are also entry points, potential evidence of a shared reality. The butterfly relates to an ancient Daoist parable as much as it does to the sorts of drawings one makes as a child. Salke abstracts, multiplies, or costumes the symbols, probing at basic questions of construction invited by the act of painting.
The work points mischievously at the bursting seams of our reality. Yet, there is also tenderness, a melancholy, and a deep love of life and painting latent there.
