Seeing the Land, University of Indianapolis, IN

2009
Imagining the Universe, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2008
Electoral Collage: Art and Politics in 2008, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR

Social Discourse, An Arts Experience, Lansing Arts Gallery, Lansing, MI 

Interpretations of the Figure, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN

2007
Metro 25, City Without Walls, Crawford St. Gallery, Newark, NJ
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
Reconnecting, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
The Body Sublime, Parkland College, Champaign, IL

2006
Anonymous Drawings, Bluetenweiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Cooper Union Summer Residency Exhibition, Cooper Union, New York, NY   

2005
Contemporary Realism, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL
Real People 2005, Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL

2003
Representative Work, Inaugural Show, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA
 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2013

Project R5 Studio Seminar, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa

 

2012

Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM

Open Studio Printshop, Toronto, Canada
 

2009
Gros Morne Artist Residency, Newfoundland, Canada
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2008
Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland, Canada

2007
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2006
Cooper Union, New York, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1996
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
 

AWARDS/GRANTS 

2013-14 

Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar grant, Delhi, India: Painting Pedagogy: Investigating Nagi Iconography and Indian Color Systems

 

2013

Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Initiative grant, Great Lakes Colleges Association: Pursuing Perception; An Interdisciplinary Approach to Color Theory in the 21st Century

 

2012

Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Initiative grant, Great Lakes Colleges Association: Open Studio; Image and Text Explorations in Lithography

2001
Graduate Teaching Award, Boston University

2000
Richard Ryan Sr. Memorial MFA Award, Boston University

1999-2001
Constatin Alajavov Fine Arts Scholarship, Boston University

 

2016
Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI (visiting artist)
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Alma College, MI (visiting artist)

2015

Whitworth University, Spokane, WA (visiting artist)

Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

 

2014

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

The American Center, New Delhi, India

 

2013

Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

 

2012 

Grand Rapids Art Museum; Rauschenberg's 'Synapsis Shuffle,' Grand Rapids, MI

Helen M. Casey Center for Non-Violence, Midland, MI

 

2011

Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI

2010
Hope College, Holland, MI

2008
University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN (visiting artist)
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

2006
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (visiting artist)
Parkland College, Champaign, IL
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

 

 

2015

 Pursuing Perception; Contemporary Approaches to Color Theory, Educational and Professional Practices Session, Session Chair, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, New York, February 13.    

 

2014

“Color and Context; A Humanities-based Approach to Teaching Color Theory,” panelist, School of Visual Arts Annual National Conference: What Should an Art School Be (Whither or wither the arts and humanities?), New York, New York, October 31. 

 

“Color, Pattern, Form: Contemporary Painting and Traditional India,” panelist, The Arts, South and Central Asia Fulbright Conference, Chennai, India, March 12.     

 

2012

"The Docile Body: The Appearance and Absence of Authority," Strange Movements, panelist, Mid-America College Art Association Annual Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, October 4. 

 

"Negatively Bound: Collaborative Work of Katherine Sullivan and Christopher Rizzo," The Body, panelist, School of Visual Arts 26th Annual National Conference: Image/Word, New York, New York, October 18.  

 

2008

"The Dialectics of Power: Abu Ghraib, Brecht, and the Body," War and Violence, panelist, School of Visual Arts 22nd Annual National Conference: Design, the Arts and the Political: Images and Words that Propagate and Dissent, New York, New York, October 16. 

 

COLLABORATIONS (selected)

2009           
"Forms Project," Image-Text collaboration with poet Christopher Rizzo: publication by Sous Rature

2009
Cormorants painting: American Ballet Theatre invitation for Alexei Ratmansky, World Premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY

2007
Detroit Institute of Arts: "Garden of Earthly Delights":Collaboration with choreographer Steven Iannacone, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

"Violet": Collaboration with InSync Director/Choreographer Ray Tadio. Performances in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nagoya, Japan

"Strange Figurations": Interactive exhibit incorporating photography, paintings, video, installations and choreography of STERKA: artist’s collaborative of Steven Iannacone, Erik Alberg, Katherine Sullivan, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI

 

2013-14               Visiting Associate Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India

2003-present        Professor of Art, Hope College, Holland, MI