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CATHERINE LEPP
ARTIST/TEACHER Bushwick NY
ART RESUME
Catherine Lepp was born in Sheffield, United Kingdom. She has lived in New York City since graduating from Manchester Polytechnic with a BFA in painting in 1989. Lepp resumed her studies in 2001 at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. While raising her children, and working as a photo producer and set painter, she attended residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2004 and the Vermont Studio Center in 2005.
Lepp teaches in the Fine Arts Department at Fashion Institute of Technology, the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, and Mount Gretna School of Art. Her previous solo show, The Swimmer Series, 2007–2021, was presented in September 2021 at the Mark Borghi Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York. She resides in a live/work studio in Brooklyn.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Faculty, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, NYC. June 2014 – Present
Adjunct Faculty, The Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, Painting & Drawing 1, Fall 22- Present
Lead Painting Instructor, Resident Artist, Mt Gretna School of Art Summer Program, PA, July 2024
Seattle Artist League Instructor, 2022-23
Drawing Faculty Mt Gretna School of Art Summer Program, PA, Resident Artist, July 2019
EDUCATION & RESIDENCIES:
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine
New York Studio School of Drawing, New York Certificate Program
Manchester Polytechnic, UK, BFA(Hons) Fine Art
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS:
2024 Lancaster Gallery MtGSOA show
2023-24 F.I.T Faculty Show
2021 "Swimmers 2007-2021"
Solo Show at Mark Borghi Gallery, Sag Harbor NY, September 10-30
https://www.markborghi.com/
https://www.markborghi.com/exhibitions/31-catherine-lepp-swimmers-2007-2021/
2019 "Alumni Show", New York Studio School, NYC,
2019 Lancaster Gallery MtGSOA show, PA
2018 "How We Remembered it" Orgy Park at Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018 "Walking is a Way of Knowing" curated by Jannell Turner, Brooklyn, NY
2018 "X Marks the Spot", New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, NYC, 7/30-8/30
2017 "Another Time After", No4.Studio, Brooklyn,
Caity Brandt, Catherine Lepp and Leanne Grimes
2016 "Alumni Show", New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, NYC
2016 "Human Mysteries", Temporary Storage Gallery, Brooklyn
2015 "Making History", StoreFront Gallery, Brooklyn
2014 "Secret Santa’s Key Party" at Orgy Park, Brooklyn
2014 LifeOnMars Gallery, Summer Show, Brooklyn
2014 The Last Brucennial, 837 Washington St., NYC
2012 "Kelly’s Eye Club" at Orgy Park, Brooklyn
2011 FirstFridays at Temporary Storage Gallery, Brooklyn
Catherine Lepp/Sarah Lasley/Katerina Savides
2011 "Where Have You Been?" Group Show, curated by Malado Baldwin, Soho, NYC
2010 "Exposure", Group Show, ICO Gallery, 606 W 26th St., NYC
2010 FUTURE86, Installation/Residency, Liberty, NY, 8/18-19
2009 NYSS Alumni Show, curated by Sean Scully, NYC, 6/26-7/25
2008 "Visions of the Figure", Repetti Gallery L.I.C NY
2007 FUTURE86, Installation/Residency, Liberty, NY
2006 DUMBO Arts Festival, Installation, Brooklyn
2006 FUTURE86, Liberty, NY.
2005 DUMBO Arts Festival, Installation, Brooklyn
2005 Robert Steele Gallery, Group Show, 511 W 25th St., NYC
2005 Mimi’s in the Marigny, Swimmers, ink on paper, Solo Show, 2601 Royal St., New Orleans
2004 Skowhegan Projects, Group Show, Skowhegan State Fair, Skowhegan, ME.