Kate Spencer Stewart
b. 1984, Phoenix, AZ Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
| 2017 | MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | Mountain School of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2026 | Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL (forthcoming) |
| 2025 | Couplet, Bureau, New York, NY |
| Nuit, Kate Spencer Stewart & Odilon Redon, Emalin, London, United Kingdom | |
| AIR FORCE, Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2023 | Disintegration Suite, Paul Soto, New York, NY |
| Diurne, Emalin, London, United Kingdom | |
| Youth, Kate Spencer Stewart & Chadwick Rantanen, Hakuna Matata, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2022 | Convention, Bureau, New York, NY |
| Nature, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2020 | Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2019 | The Gallery @ Le Hangar Restaurant, Paris, France |
| 2018 | The Gallery @ Michael's Restaurant, Santa Monica, CA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | land marks, Pace, Los Angeles, CA |
| Fifteen-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| Taking Care, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Revival, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy | |
| 2024 | In flames, Paul Soto, New York, NY |
| 2023 | ABERTO/02, Domschke House, Alto da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2022 | Hand to your ear, Part 2 (noise/silence), Emalin Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2021 | Soft As Velvet Eyes Can See, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, K.R.M. Mooney, Kate Spencer Stewart, Bureau, New York, NY |
| Autohaus St. Marx, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria | |
| Fifteen Painters, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2020 | Last Call, The Gallery @ Michael's Restaurant, Santa Monica, California |
| 2019 | Here's why patterns, Here's why patterns, Here's why patterns, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan |
| Friend of a Friend, Piktogram Gallery, Warsaw, Poland | |
| La Peinture Abstraite, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels, Belgium | |
| 2018 | Show #2, The Gallery @ Michael's Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2017 | CD SM KSS, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Microcosm, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Thesis Exhibition, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2016 | MFA Preview, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2017, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2015 | STAPLES (and Doodles), The Vanity North, Bakersfield, CA |
| 2014 | Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA |
| Armory Arcade, Private Island, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2011 | You are the Last Tiny Creature, Tiny Creatures, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2009 | The Last Tiny Creature, Tiny Creatures, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2008 | Group Show without André Butzer, The Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2007 | Careful: Lines, Tiny Creatures, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | Degree Exhibition, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2004 | Various Landscapes, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA |
SELECTED PRESS
| 2025 | Vincler, John. "Our Critic Recommends 3 Tribeca Shows That Strip Away the Excesses of Painting," CULTURED, December 3, 2025. |
| Gat, Orit. "Square One," Flash Art, September 2025. | |
| Lincoln, Sam. "Nuit: Kate Spencer Stewart & Odilon Redon at Emalin," émergent magazine, September 2025. | |
| 2024 | Heinrich, Will. "Art Fair Review: So Much Style, It’s Head-Spinning," The New York Times, May 2024. |
| Bacon, Alex. "Kate Spencer Stewart Black Paintings," Emalin Stories, February 2024. | |
| 2023 | Hadland, Gracie. "Kate Spencer Stewart and Chadwick Rantanen Throw a Backyard Party," Frieze, March 2023. |
| Denman, Tom, “Kate Spencer Stewart: Diurne,” Studio International, May 23, 2023. | |
| 2022 | O’Brasky, Jackson. "Kate Spencer Stewart’s liminal spaces," Two Coats of Paint, May 2022. |
| 2019 | Brown, Kate. "In the Shadow of Europe's Rising Far-Right, Warsaw Gallerists Are Trying to Find a Way Forward - by Drawing on Their Socialist Past," artnet, April 2019. |
| Kosciuczuk, Krysztof. "As Friend of a Friend Opens in Warsaw, We Pick the Shows to See," Frieze, April 2019. | |
| "Special Feature: Friend of a Friend Warsaw 2019," Art Viewer, May 2019. | |
| "La peinture abstraite at La Maison de Rendez-Vous," Art Viewer, February 2019. | |
| Schechter, Asha. "Kate Spencer Steward, Paintings. The Gallery @ Michael's Los Angeles," Flash Art, February 2019. | |
| Brugerolle, Marie De. "Post-Performance Painting." Mousse, no. 66, 2019. |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2025 | Kate Spencer Stewart & Odilon Redon, Nuit, texts by Scott Roben and Michaela Züge‑Bruton, Emalin, London, United Kingdom |
| 2011 | Kraus, Chris. Where Art Belongs, Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), p 29. |
COLLECTIONS Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami X Museum, Shanghai ASOM Collection, Liechtenstein