Catherine Haggarty
Visiting Associate Professor
Biography
Catherine Haggarty, b. 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.
Catherine has been a visiting artist & critic at Rocky Mountain College of Art (2024), Western Connecticut MFA (2023), Contemporary Arts Memphis (2023), Vassar College (2023), Rutgers MFA (2022), U Albany MFA (2022), MICA (2022), UCONN MFA (2022 + 2023), RISD BFA (2022), Pratt BFA (2022), The University of Oregon (2021), Boston University MFA (2021), SUNY Purchase MFA (2020), Hunter MFA (2020), Denison University (2020), Brooklyn College MFA (2019) and in 2018 Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University.
Solo & Two Person exhibitions include: Deanna Evans Projects (NYC), Miami, Lorin Gallery, LA, Geary Contemporary (NYC), Massey Klein Gallery (NYC), This Friday Next Friday (Brooklyn), Bloomsburg University (PA), and Look and Listen in Marseille France. Select group exhibitions include: The PIT (LA), Badr El Jundi (Madrid, Spain), Mindy Solomon (Miami, FL), Andrew Rafcaz (Chicago, IL), Hesse Flatow (NYC), Mrs (Maspeth, NY) and McBride Contemporary in Montreal, Canada.
Haggarty earned her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. Haggarty is the Founder, Owner and Executive Director of The Canopy Program which is a one year mentorship program within the NYC Crit Club which Haggarty co-founded in 2017. In addition, Haggarty is an Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.
Haggarty was the Spring 2024 Teiger Mentor for the Arts at Cornell AAP MFA and in the Winter of 2024 was a Visiting Artist at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (Denver, CO) on the occasion of her Solo Exhibition ‘Stay the course’ featuring ten years of work at The Philip J. Steele Gallery.
Education
MFA – Rutgers University – 2011
BA, BA – Bloomsburg University, 2006
Tyler School of Art – Rome – 2005
Publications and Projects
Founder – The Canopy Program, Chelsea, NYC and International
2024 Spring Teiger Mentor in the Arts – Cornell AAP MFA
Pep Talks for Artists – Thoughts on Drawing with David Humphrey, Jennifer Coates, & Amy Talluto
Two Coats of Paint – 2024 Review by Johnathan Stevenson – 2024
Art Forum, Must See – Room with a View, Hashimoto Contemporary – 2023
Bomb Magazine, Interview of Meg Lipke – 2021
Bomb Magazine, Interview by Sangram Majumdar – 2021