K a t hr y n Ly nc h
17 September — 01 November 2026
K a t hr y n Ly n c h S e e in g S ile n c e
MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY
S e e in g S ile n c e Seeing
Silence
reflects
Kathryn
painting
as
Lynch’s
that are elusive yet deeply felt. Silence, for her,
a
wordless
creates space for what cannot be fully explained
observation,
intuition,
or fully known, allowing intuition and possibility
and feeling take precedence over language.
to take precedence over language. Rather than
understanding
of
realm—one
which
in
offering a fixed meaning, the paintings invite the Lynch’s paintings begin with something real:
viewer into their own quiet exchange. Lynch hopes
a landscape, a street, a ship, a face. Her
they can exist beyond a particular time or place,
paintings move between the observed and the
speaking to the shared experience of being alive.
imagined, fleeting
transforming moments
into
specific
places
atmospheric
and
images
Kathryn
Lynch
was
born
and
raised
in
that feel at once familiar and elusive. “I am
Philadelphia. She received her undergraduate
painting the poetry of place rather than the
degree from William Smith College in Geneva,
place,” Lynch says. “It’s a boat anywhere, it’s a
NY, and an MFA at the University of Pennsylvania
sky for everyone. It’s nowhere and everywhere.”
in 1990. She was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting in 2018. She has been
Lynch responds to the world around her, allowing
invited to Skowhegan, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh
each painting to develop through an intuitive
Foundation and The Vermont Studio Center.
exchange between herself and the canvas. She
Since earning her MFA, Lynch has been in
does not begin with a predetermined outcome.
numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US
Instead,
and abroad. Her works are in the permanent
each
work
demands
something
different, and she follows the painting until the
collections
conversation is finished. The process can be
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA and Fort
of
the
University
of
California
quick or painstaking and is anything but passive.
Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, as well as
Lynch describes it less as meditation than as
many corporate collections, including Microsoft,
giving birth—a sustained effort to bring the
Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the Millennium
canvas to life, to make it breathe on its own.
Art Collection in the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park, in NYC. The artist lives in Catskill, NY, and works
Across landscapes and portraits, Lynch distills moments of everyday experience into paintings
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in a curated artist campus called Foreland.
Lynch in her studio
Portrait of an Artist , 2025 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches
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Thinking , 2026 Oil on linen 70 x 63 inches
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Pond , 2025 Oil on linen 70 x 63 inches
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Moon , 2025 Oil on linen 63 x 60 inches
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Harvest Moon , 2025 Oil on linen 63 x 60 inches
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Road to Mountains , 2025 Oil on linen 53 x 48 inches
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Pathway , 2025 Oil on linen 53 x 48 inches
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Pink Window , 2024 Oil on linen 53 x 48 inches
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Sun Over Two Trees , 2026 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches
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Sun Over Bay in the Morning , 2025 Oil on linen 40 x 30 inches
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Sun Over Bay , 2025 Oil on linen 40 x 30 inches
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Dark Sunflowers , 2026 Oil on linen 40 x 30 inches
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Dancing Trees , 2026 Oil on linen 30 x 36 inches
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Sunflowers , 2026 Oil on linen 36 x 30 inches
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Last Dandelion , 2026 Oil on linen 20 x 16 inches
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Sunrise , 2026 Oil on linen 24 x 20 inches
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Early Evening , 2026 Oil on linen 24 x 18 inches
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Night , 2026 Oil on linen 24 x 20 inches
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Wildflowers , 2025 Oil on linen 10 x 8 inches
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Purple Mountain , 2025 Oil on linen 10 x 8 inches
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Flowers from a Friend , 2026 Oil on linen 10 x 10 inches
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S e e in g S ile n c e B y K a t h r y n Ly n c h Come hold my hand And paint along While I record Your silent song
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KATHRYN LYNCH EDUCATION
2014
1983
2013
1991 1990
William Smith College, Geneva, NY Skowhegan, Skowhegan, ME MFA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2026
2025 2023
2022
2021
2020
2017 2016
2015 48
Seeing Silence, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Weather, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK Time Capsules, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Near and Far, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY Elsewhere, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY Here Comes the Sun and Other Situations, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Restless Nights, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY Fields of Time, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY “City Grit” Project Room, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Between the Streets, Turn Gallery, Parlour Room, New York, NY Islands, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY Kathryn Lynch Recent Works, Zephyr and Maize, St. Petersburg, Russia Far Away Home, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Hot Days and Nights, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Painting Everyday, Spoonbill Studio, curated by Madeleine Mermall, Brooklyn, NY A View of One’s Own, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Shifting Scenes, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Up at Night, Senaspace, New
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 2004 2002 1996
York, NY Maine, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Tug Tug, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY A Silent Language, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY la vie en tugboat, Senaspace, New York, NY Big Flowers for the Little Gallery, The Little Gallery, Sharon Springs, NY Dogs, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY River Tugs, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Choppy Waters, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Her Days and Nights, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY ARC LLC Fine Art, Ct. Her Days and Nights, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Nina Freudenheim, Inc. Buffalo, NY Paintings: The City, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR Painting the Town, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR Project Room, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2026
2025
2024
Rare Earth, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Impact Festival with _ Collaborations, Copenhagen _collaborations, Night Breed, Copenhagan Passengers, Turn Gallery, New York, NY In Light of Present Boundaries, Teffiaprimary, Kingston, NY Littoral Zone Margins of Light, LaLoma Gallery/ WorkingLoose, Blue Hill, ME Luminal, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, NYC Inherent Nature, Maya Frodeman Gallery, curated by Kathryn Lynch, Jackson Hole, WY A Particular Kind of Heaven, Karma Gallery, Thomaston,
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
ME Marquee Projects, Cereal Isle, Bellport, NY In Full Bloom, ARC Fine Art LLC, Fairfield, CT Holiday, Art Sales and Research, Clinton Corners, NY The Mirror Blue Night, Undercroft Gallery, curated by Patrick Neal, New York, NY Sun to Moon, Turn Gallery, New York, NY I am curious (blue), mepaintsme, Online HumDrum, CCA Aandratx, Andratx, Spain Chasing Light, MyPetRam, Santa Barbara, CA Light and Graphite, Studio E, Seattle, WA Summer Joy, Art Sales and Research, Clinton Corners, NY Snow Day, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY A Celebration of Trees, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY The Container Garden, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Landscape and Memory, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY 95 North, Private Public Gallery, Hudson NY Sears Peyton Gallery, Dallas Art Fair Unconquerable Women, Marthas Contemporary, Austin, TX Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson NY “All small” 8 artists Nocturnes: The Nighttime Landscapes, The Empty Circle, Brooklyn, Color Forms, curated by Michael Klein, Red Barn, Stanfordville, NY New York Just Like I Pictured It, Platform Projects, Brooklyn, NY Sears Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Stars in Our Pocket, Turn Gallery, New York, NY The Drawing Room Gallery, Winter Salon, East Hampton, NY
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
The Spirit of Place, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY Dogs, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY Sears Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA In My Garden, Michael Klein, New York, NY Sears Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Spring Installation, The Drawing Room, Easthampton, NY Eyes of the East End, Arc Fine Art LLC, Fairfield, CT The Gallery@1Gap, Brooklyn, NY Autumn Salon, The Drawing Room, Easthampton, NY Drishti: A Concentrated Gaze, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY City Lives, Shirley Fiterman Center, curated by Michael Klein, New York, NY Sara Nightingale, Watermill, NY Making History at Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Arts in Bushwick Metro Art Fair, Michael Klein Arts, New York, NY Animalia, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT Southampton Art Fair, Michael Klein Arts, Southampton, NY Summer Group Show, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Landfall Press, Miami Art Fair, Miami, FL Red Dot Fair, Miami, FL Aspects of a New Realism, Arthur Rodger Gallery, curated by Michael Klein, New Orleans, LA Black and White, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Incongruent Sum, 111 Leroy Street, New York, NY Super Nature, 4North Gallery, Southampton, NY Pulse Art Fair, Sears Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Show, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY 49
2010
2008 2007
2003 2002
2001
2000 1999
1996
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Bedlam, Bank Iran, 111 Leroy Street, New York, NY Pretty Vacant, Brooklyn Art Studios and Yashar Gallery, Gowanus, NY The Big Show, Marsden Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Johnnie Boden, Sag Harbor, NY Sweetness & Light and Where There’s Smoke, UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA The Big Apple, Ken Jones Jr. Fine Art, Easton, PA Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Recent History, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, works of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s selected by Michael Klein, New York, NY New Works on Paper, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA Catch a Fish, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY ‘Artists to Artists’ A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY Beyond the Mountains, the Contemporary American Landscape, curated by Michael Klein, traveled to Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, TN; Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, CT New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Emerging Artists, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY 24/7, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Kathryn Lynch, Project Room, Charles Cowles, New York, NY Of Land and Sea, Elaine Benson, Bridge Hampton, NY New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New
1995
1993
1992
1991 1990
York, NY Five Artists Over Five Decades, William Smith College, Geneva, NY New Work, Black & Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY New Painting, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA Five Women Painters, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ New Generation Artists, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA New Faces-New Energy, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME 56th National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Thirty-Third Juried Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum, New York, NY Fifteenth Annual Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY Artists of West Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA Inhabited Places, University City Arts League Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES 2022 2021 2018
2009 1997 1995 1994
VCCA in France, Avuilar Residency, France Edgewood Farm, Truro, MA Skowhegan Alumni Residency, Skowhegan, ME NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow Award Foundation Valparaiso Residency, October 16-30th, Spain Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, November 9th December 6th, VA Spain Residency, October 2009, Joya: arte & eclologia: losqazquez Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, NY The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
1993 1991 1989
The Vermont Center, Johnson, VT Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship Award from University of Pennsylvania to Vermont Studio Center
CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2014 2013 2013
Fort Wayne Museum of art, Fort Wayne, IN University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Microsoft, Redmond, WA Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ Johnson & Johnson, Princeton, NJ Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH Pfizer, New York, NY Millenium Art Collection, Ritz Carlton, Battery Park City, NYC Wellington Art Collection
2013
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This catalog complements Kathryn Lynch’s exhibition Seeing Silence Maya Frodeman Gallery 17 September - 01 November 2026
Images courtesy of the artist © Kathryn Lynch
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Pond, (detail), Oil on linen
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