Katherine Bernhardt, "Merengue"
Signed in pencil and numbered 64/100. Colour lithograph, 2017. Published by Paupers Press, London. Sheet size 70.5 x 97 cm.
Not framed. No remarks otherwise.
Katherine Bernhardt was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2000. Bernhardt paints pop cultural characters, food, and consumer goods in an expressive, colourful style. She explores the everyday iconography of contemporary society.
Her art is represented in public museums around the world, such as The Brant Foundation, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Rubell Museum, Miami; and San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas. She has also exhibited in Sweden at Loyal Gallery, Malmö in 2012 and 2007.