Kate Powell
she/her/hers

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BIO

Kate Powell (b. 1991) is an artist living and working in Tacoma, Washington. Kate is a recent graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Low-Residency MFA program (2024), and is a recent Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant awardee (2025). Kate is currently invested in parallel practices of observational painting, in which she combines found and chosen objects into ambiguous arrangements that advance an expansive definition of still life, and imaginative drawing, in which she synergizes relationships between graphic quality and narrative content.

EDUCATION

2024 • MFA Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2020-2022 • Trowbridge Atelier, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2014 • B.A. English Literature/French, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
2012 • Academic Year Abroad, CUPA/Université Paris 8, Paris, France 

AWARDS + HONORS

2025 • Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant 

EXHIBITIONS

Visual Narratives (group exhibition)
March 2025, Boxx Gallery, Tieton, WA

Selfies and Self-Care (group exhibition)
February 2025, Radius Art Studio, Portland, OR

Fall Season Exhibit (group exhibition)
September 2024, The Hideout, Seattle

Stuff and Things: New Still Life Paintings by Kate Powell
March 2024, Equinox Studios - Studio B, Georgetown, Seattle

Above and Below: 2024 LRMFA Thesis Exhibition (group exhibition)
August 2024, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Postcards from Home - New Paintings by Kate Powell
March 2022, C&P Coffee, West Seattle