Kate Moran

Kate Moran is a Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist. Moran’s current work presents color as a singular subject and focuses on the idea that colors are entities unto themselves. Through the process of isolation and fragmentation, she investigates how putting down pigment whether found or manipulated relates to abstraction, without relying on a conscious narrative. Edges reflect a sense of displacement as a way to reinvent the frame.

Moran received her BA at Antioch College in Ohio, a Certificate from PAFA and an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  She attended residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI and received multiple grants and fellowships from the Pew Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Leeway Foundation.  Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the List Gallery of Swarthmore College, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, the Olin Art Gallery at Kenyon College in Ohio, the Morris Gallery at PAFA and the Williams Center for the Arts at Lafayette College, Gallery Joe in Philadelphia and the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in New York and Miami, as well as in group shows at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Arcadia University. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections. Moran is currently a professor in the MFA program at PAFA where she has taught since 1998.