Born 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts. Lives and works in Portland, Maine.

2004 BFA Rhode Island School of Design

SOLO SHOWS

2026    MILK TEETH, Karma, New York

2025    The Journal, Moss Galleries, Portland, Maine 

GROUP SHOWS

2026    Outside, Curated by Matthew Higgs, Karma, Thomaston, Maine

2025    A Certain Form of Hell, Karma, Thomaston, Maine

2024    Art Show!, Walpole Ontological Lab and Farm, Walpole Maine 

2023    Rituals, Speedwell Contemporary, online exhibition

RESIDENCIES

2013     Hewnoaks Artist Residency, Lovell, Maine

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Lights Out Gallery, The Peaceable Kingdom, YouTube, March 20, 2026.

Heller, Lore.“Kate Hargrave: Unsettling and generous”.Two Coats of Paint, March 5, 2026.

Karma Gallery “Kate Hargrave, MILK TEETH.“ February 20–March 28, 2026, Karma.

Vartanian, Hrag. “After More Than 20 Years, Kate Hargrave Lets Her Paintings Leave the Nest,” Hyperallergic, Feb. 5, 2025.

Little, Carl. “Kate Hargrave, The Journal.” Art New England, January/February 2025.

Arango, Jorge. “The odd, darkly enchanted world of Kate Hargrave.” Portland Press Herald, Jan. 31 2025.

Irons, Hilary. “Kate Hargrave, The Journal“ Jan. 10-March 8,2025, Moss Galleries.

BIO

Kate Hargrave (b. 1981) is a painter based in Maine. She earned her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. For two decades, she developed an introspective practice shaped by raising her children, an experience that continues to inform her work through emerging characters and scenes.