Education
2025 Summer Undergraduate Residency Program, New York Academy of Art
2021-2025 BFA in Studio Art, University of Minnesota, Distinction
Minor in Gender Women and Sexuality Studies
Minor in Museum and Curatorial Studies
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 How it Feels, Landmark Gallery, St. Paul, MN
A World Inside, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Counterpoint, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Notan, Cicada Curatorial, https://www.cicadacuratorial.com/notan
Collective ALCHEMY IV, Burl Gallery, St. Paul, MN
The Skin Exhibition, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Body Language, Paul Wilson Larson Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2023 Undergraduate Scholarship Exhibition, Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Stay Human, Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
The Periphery of Power, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Untitled, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Portals, Barbara Barker Center For Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2022 BFA Undergrad Scholarship Exhibition, Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Click for Art, Northrop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Chiaroscuro Portrait, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Awards
2025 Stobart Foundation Grant ($5,000)
2025 Wet Paint Scholarship ($1,000)
2025 John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship ($2,000)
2025 New York Academy of Art SURP Academy Scholar Award ($3,663)
2025 Jackson Art Prize Extended Longlist
2024 Grand Opening Contest Winner, MoonLit Getaway International Literary Journal ($100)
2024 Winston Visual Arts Scholarship, National Society of Arts and Letters ($2,000)
2023 First Grant, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation ($12,600)
2023 Brown McKenzie Scholarship, University of Minnesota ($2,000)
2023 Individual Artist Award, The McKnight Foundation ($3,000)
2023 Student Arts Scholarship, Central Minnesota Arts Board ($1,500)
2022 Individual Artist Award, The McKnight Foundation ($3,000)
2022 Student Arts Scholarship, Central Minnesota Arts Board ($1,500)
2022 Carter Prize Scholarship, University of Minnesota ($5,000)
2021 Student Arts Scholarship, Central Minnesota Arts Board ($1,500)
2021 Silver Key Portfolio, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Publications
Featured artwork, “Entangled in My Roots”. MoonLit Getaway International Literary Journal. Issue 001. Fall 2025. https://www.moonlitgetaway.com/art/entangled-in-my-roots.
Featured artwork, “Growing Pains/Abscission”. Furrow Magazine at UW-Milwaukee. Volume 26. Spring 2025. https://sites.uwm.edu/furrow/
Featured artwork, “A Perfect Commotion Shed Its Light on Me”. see/saw History of Art Journal at UC Berkeley. Issue 002. Spring 2025.
Featured artwork, “A Perfect Commotion Shed Its Light on Me”. Harvard Undergraduate Journal of Art. Issue 002. Fall 2024. https://sites.harvard.edu/harvard-undergraduate-art-history-journal/a-perfect-commotion-shed-its-light-on-me/
Featured artwork “Change of Season.” The Tower Literary and Art Magazine. Volume 18. Spring 2024
Featured three Artworks, Suboart Magazine: International Art Magazine for Emerging Artists, Issue oo6. Spring 2023
Featured artwork, “Love From Somebody Else.” The Tower Literary and Art Magazine. Volume 17. Spring 2023
Featured artwork “Daisy Fresh Girl” in “An Englishman’s Obeah: Bringing a Zombie to New England” by Emily White. Resistance. University of Wisconsin-Madison Journal of Literary Criticism. Volume 13. Fall 2023. https://issuu.com/themjlc/docs/themjlcresistancedigital
Featured five artworks and a personal essay, “The Perpetual Cycle of Misogyny.” Yale Journal of Art and Art History, Issue 005. Spring 2022. https://www.asteriskjournal.org/spring-2022
Media/Interview
Reynolds, Hannah and Sarah Hussein. “BFA students celebrate culminating work in the upcoming ‘Counterpoint’ exhibition.” The Minnesota Daily, April 30th, 2025.
Artist Interview. Moonlit Getaway International Literary Journal. Fall 2024 https://www.moonlitgetaway.com/post/artist-interview-kathryn-blommel
Exhibition review. Horner, Sarah. “Art exhibit ‘Periphery of Power’ celebrates existing in the margins.” The Minnesota Daily, July 26, 2023. https://mndaily.com/278132/arts-entertainment/art-exhibit-periphery-of-power-celebrates-existing-in-the-margins/
Curated Exhibitions
2023, Stay Human, Quarter Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Professional Experience
2023-Present, Gallery Assistant, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Total Arts Day Camp Intern, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
2023-24 Events Crew, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2022-23 Gallery Preparator Intern, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021-22 Gallery Attendant, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN