Katherine Bernhardt
Katherine Bernhardt is an American artist based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Work and career
Bernhardt received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.Bernhardt is known for painting consumer symbols, tropical animals, and every day objects over bright flat fields of color in an expressionistic and almost abstract style. Previous bodies of work include Moroccan rug-inspired paintings and collages made in collaborations with her husband Youssef Jdia, as well as her "model" paintings, which were loose portraits based on images of supermodels from high fashion magazines.
Bernhardt has also been involved in numerous collaborations within the art and fashion industries. In 2015, Bernhardt was one of five artists asked to contribute to W Magazine's annual "Art Issue" featuring artwork inspired by rapper Drake. Bernhardt also produced a in-store installation in a New York City Chanel location for the launch of the J-12 watch. She has also collaborated with Flaunt magazine, EDUN, and Miss Sixty.
Exhibitions
Katherine Bernhardt's work has been exhibited internationally since 2000. She has been included in both solo and group shows with galleries such as CANADA, the Hole, Team Gallery, VENUS, China Art Objects Galleries, V1 Gallery, Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Xavier Hufkens.Selected solo exhibitions
2020- DONE WITH XANAX, Canada, New York, NY
- Big in Japan, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan
- Garfield on Scotch Tape, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
- GOLD, Art OMI, New York, NY
- Watermelon World, Mario Testino Museum, Lima, Peru
- CANADA, New York, NY, USA
- Karma, Amagansett, NY, USA
- Concrete Jungle Jungle Love, Lever House, New York, NY, USA
- Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, MO, USA
- Product Recall: New Pattern Paintings, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
- Strawberry Banana Power Smoothie, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
- Pablo and Efrain, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, New York
- Fruit Salad, Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
- Club Caribe, Cidra, Puerto Rico
- Doritos and Diet Coke, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
- Stupid, Crazy, Ridiculous, Funny Patterns, CANADA, NY, New York
- Watermelon, Smiley Faces, Ice Cream, Popsicles, Avocado and Sun, Roberto Paradise, San Juan Puerto Rico
- Holiday Services: Katherine Bernhardt and Youssef Jdia, The Hole, NYC, NY
- Nomad, Loyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
- Rites of Spring Passage, Carbon 12, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Hot Pop Time Machine, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Tombouctou 52 Jours, CANADA, New York, NY
- Lila Dit Ca, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
- Super Models and Swatch Watches, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
- Wonder Women, Carbon 12, Dubai
- Greeky, Ransom, London, UK
- Kate, Giselle, Natalia, Agyness, Simon, Kanye and George, CANADA, New York
- Drunken Hot Girls, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris France
- Kiss Me Kate, LOYAL, Stockholm, Sweden
- Black White Silver Gold Baby, installation with CHANEL and New York Magazine, CHANEL 64th and Madison Avenue, NY, New York
- La Dolce Vita, Galeria Glance, Torino, Italy
- Flesh for Fantasy, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
- Girls on Film, Cannes, France
- Budapest, The Gellert Hotel, 10:15pm, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
- Winter Special Crazy Fun, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
- 96 Degrees in the Shade, CANADA, New York
- Women of the Forest, Greener Pastures Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Where the Spirits Dwell, Galeria Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Pleasure and Paint, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
- Dots, Team Gallery, New York
Selected group exhibitions
Public collections
- Alberto de la Cruz Foundation, Puerto Rico
- Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
- Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
- Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Amman, Jordan
- High Museum, Atlanta, GA
- Hall Collection, Reading, VT
- Knoxville Museum of Art
- Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
- Smithsonian – Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
- Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
- San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
- Sandretto Foundation, Torino, Italy
Publications