Catherine Haggarty

Catherine Haggarty, born in 1984, is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Haggarty's paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Bomb Magazine, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Pep Talks for Artists, Sound and Vision Podcast, and The Observer.

Haggarty has been a visiting artist and critic at Western Connecticut State University M.F.A. (2023), Contemporary Arts Memphis (2023), Vassar College (2023), Rutgers M.F.A. (2022), The University of Albany M.F.A. (2022), Maryland Institute College of Art (2022), The University of Connecticut M.F.A. (2022, 2023), RISD B.F.A. (2022), Pratt Institute B.F.A. (2022), The University of Oregon (2021), Boston University M.F.A. (2021), SUNY Purchase M.F.A. (2020), Hunter College M.F.A. (2020), Denison University (2020), Brooklyn College M.F.A. (2019), and, in 2018, Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University.

Solo & Two Person exhibitions include Untitled Miami, Lorin Gallery (Los Angeles), Geary Contemporary (New York City), Massey Klein Gallery (New York City), This Friday Next Friday (Brooklyn), Bloomsburg University (Pennsylvania), and Look and Listen in Marseille, France. Select group exhibitions include The PIT (Los Angeles), Badr El Jundi (Madrid), Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami), Andrew Rafcaz Gallery (Chicago), Hesse Flatow (New York City), Mrs. Gallery (Maspeth, New York) and McBride Contemporain (Montreal).

Haggarty earned her M.F.A. from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. She is the Founder, Owner, and Executive Director of The Canopy Program, which is a one-year mentorship program within the New York City Crit Club which Haggarty cofounded in 2017. In addition, she is an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Visual representation

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Classes (Selected)

ART 6000 Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Theory and Art

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

Joseph Robert Foundation Grantee (2023)
ESKFF Grantee (2013)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

Room with a View, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York City (2023)
Down to Earth, Badr El Jundi, Madrid (2023)
Untitled — Two person exhibit with Vadis Turner, Miami Untitled, Miami (2022)

Publications (Selected)

Meg Lipke, Catherine Haggarty, "How Things Grow," Bomb Magazine (2021)
Sangram Majumdar, Catherine Haggarty, "The Company Your Mind Keeps," Bomb Magazine (2021)
Seeger, Zach, "Catherine Haggarty's Call To Memory," Two Coats of Paint (2020)
Taft, W. S., James W. Mayer, Howard C. Aderhold, Matt Keller, and Gia Rizzo, "Neutron Induced Autoradiography and Pixe Analysis," MRS Proceedings 267 (1992)

Selected Work

  • A hazy green and orange painting that looks like a shower curtain and the tiles of a bathtub. On the shower curtain is an image of a body of water with a ship sailing on it.

    For Turner & Jim (2023), acrylic on canvas, 33" x 22". image / provided

  • A painting of 9 brightly colored, rainbow cats stacked three in a row, set against a tile floor and bright, colorful background.

    Cat Transfiguration (2023), acrylic on canvas, 33" x 22". image / provided

  • A close up painting of the corner of a window. The window frame is brown, with gemstone-like decorations across the top, green window blinds, and an orange wall in the background.

    For JBH #1 (2023), acrylics on canvas, 16" x 20". image / provided

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