Katherine Vetne brings together themes of high craft, art history, consumerism, and gender through her still life-based practice. Vetne received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is the recipient of SFAI’s Graduate Fellowship in Painting and the Allan B. Stone Award.
Vetne’s work was featured in Heavy Metal – Women to Watch 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Her 2019 debut solo exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery Whatever I See I Swallow was supported by an Individual Artist Grant through the San Francisco Arts Commission. Vetne has exhibited her work at CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles; Samson Projects and 808 Gallery, in Boston, MA; and CCA Hubbell Street Galleries and 2nd floor projects, in San Francisco, CA.
In 2021, Vetne was featured in a major exhibition on contemporary craft at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and in the accompanying catalogue, Crafting America, along with Peter Saenger’s article in the Wall Street Journal, “America Made by Hand”. Her trio of sculptures All This Could Be Yours, Studies I, II, and III were recently acquired by the National Museum of Women in the Arts for its permanent collection, through a gift of The San Francisco Advocacy for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In 2023, Catharine Clark Gallery presented Vetne’s solo exhibition Palate Cleanser.
Katherine Vetne lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 2019.
