Katherine Vetne's artistic practice explores themes of high craft, art history, consumerism, and gender through a still life-based approach. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Vetne is the recipient of SFAI's Graduate Fellowship in Painting and the Allan B. Stone Award. She was selected by Jenny Gheith, Curator and Interim Head of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA, for a Women to Watch exhibit in San Francisco. Her work was later featured in the subsequent national exhibition, Heavy Metal – Women to Watch 2018, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Her career has brought her from the SF Bay Area to New York, where she now resides.
Supported by an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Vetne debuted a solo exhibition, Whatever I See I Swallow, at Catharine Clark Gallery. She 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. Her work was also prominently featured and written about in Crafting America, a major survey exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2021. The exhibition was reviewed by Peter Saenger in The Wall Street Journal in an article titled "America Made by Hand." Her trio of sculptures, All This Could Be Yours, Studies I, II, and III, was subsequently acquired by the National Museum of Women in the Arts for its permanent collection.
Vetne has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 2019. In 2025, her exhibition at the gallery, Between Worlds, presents a suite of still lifes rendered in metalpoint that explore the uncanny.
