Kathryn Lynch

Kathryn Lynch’s paintings examine the structure of place through acts of sustained looking. She abstracts telephone poles, roads and artificial light into unstable spatial fields that hover between recognition and dissolution. Softly layered brushwork compresses atmosphere and surface, allowing familiar forms to slip into indeterminate states. Lynch’s paintings resist fixed location, and rather than depicting sites her work registers conditions – of light, distance, and perception – where meaning remains provisional and unresolved.

Kathryn Lynch (b. 1961), received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. She has participated in several residency programmes including, the Colstoun House Residency (2025), the Edward Albee Foundation Residency, the Skowhegan Alumni Residency (2021), Foundation Valparaiso Residency (2018), and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (1995). She was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting in 2018 and received the 1989 Fellowship Award from the Vermont Studio Center through the University of Pennsylvania. Lynch’s work has been exhibited globally in over 20 solo shows and upwards of 30 group exhibitions, including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s 2025 Biennial, with presentations in cities such as New York, St. Petersburg, Boston, Los Angeles, and Miami. Her work can be found in a number of collections, such as Fort Wayne Museum of Art (IN, USA), University of California Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), Millenium Art Collection (NY, USA), Wellington Art Collection (UK), and Microsoft (WA, USA). Lynch lives and works in Catskill, New York.