Kathryn Lynch
Available Works
We have a limited selection of works available from Kathryn Lynch, including original pieces on canvas.
ARTIST PROFILE
Kathryn Lynch (b. 1961, Philadelphia, PA)
Kathryn Lynch is a painter of perception — an artist whose work holds place at the precise moment it begins to dissolve. Trained at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed her MFA in 1990, and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Lynch has spent more than three decades building a practice rooted in sustained, unhurried looking.
She works across urban and rural environments, moving between the dense layering of city infrastructure and the open atmospheres of the American landscape. Roads, fields, sky, and light are her recurring subjects — though subject may be too fixed a word. Lynch is less interested in depicting places than in registering conditions: the particular quality of distance on a grey afternoon, the way weather compresses a horizon, the moment when something familiar begins to tip into abstraction. Her softly accretive brushwork enacts this instability. Forms emerge and recede within the paint surface, held in a state of productive uncertainty between the legible and the felt.
The result is painting that resists resolution. Lynch does not fix her landscapes; she keeps them open — provisional records of a perceptual encounter rather than documents of a place. There is something quietly radical in this refusal, and something deeply humanist too. These are not views. They are experiences.
Lynch has been awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Painting and has undertaken residencies at Yaddo, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Foundation Valparaiso, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Edward Albee Foundation. She has exhibited across more than twenty solo shows in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, and St. Petersburg, and participated in the Center for Maine Contemporary Art's 2025 Biennial. She was Artist in Residence at Colstoun Arts in 2025.
Her work is held in public and corporate collections including the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the Wellington Art Collection in London, and Microsoft.
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Solo exhibitions:
2026 Weather, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK Time Capsules, Sears-Peyton, New York, NY
2025 Near and Far, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY
2023 Elsewhere, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY 2
022 Fields of Time, Tayloe Piggott Gallery (Now Maya Frodeman Gallery), Jackson, WY
2021 Between the Streets, Turn Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Maine, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2013 A Silent Language, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026 Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2025 Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial, Rockland, ME A Certain Kind of Heaven, Karma Gallery, Thomaston, ME 2024 The Silver Cord, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK 2001 Beyond the Mountains: the Contemporary American Landscape, touring exhibition
Selected Public & Corporate Collections Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, USA University of California Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA Millennium Art Collection, Ritz Carlton, New York, USA Wellington Art Collection, London, UK Microsoft, Washington, USA Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey, USA Progressive Corporation, Ohio, USA Pfizer, New York, USA