Kathleen McShane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, spent many years living in New York, Philadelphia, and Detroit, and now lives in a small town equidistant between Austin and Houston, TX. She has a BFA in Painting/Printmaking /Drawing from New York State College of Art and Design at Alfred University, NY and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI. She teaches at Texas State University.
Texas exhibitions include a recent solo exhibition of paintings and objects at Bill Davenport’s Optical Projects Gallery in Houston, TX., shows at SOFA and Big Medium Galleries in Austin,TX and the Drawing Biennial at SCA Rogers Gallery in San Antonio,TX. Her work has been included in exhibitions at The Drawing Center NY, Brooklyn Museum NY, Aldrich Museum CT, Carroll and Sons in Boston MA, Susanne Hilberry Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit , Nylon Gallery London, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Ireland, and she is represented and shows regularly at Paul Kotula Projects in Detroit. Her work is included in many private and public, national and international collections including Wynn and Sally Kramarsky, Weatherspoon Museum, Fidelity Collection, Entemann Collection Germany, and James Rosenquist. Past Artist Residencies include MacDowell, Millay, Cite des Artes Paris, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Ireland, Frans Masereel Belgium, and upcoming at Montana Artist Refuge and Cité des Artes Paris.