Kate Fleming, b. 1992
Based in Arlington, VA.
I am an oil painter, a printmaker, and a documentarian of the human-built landscape. I capture specific moments in time, painting and drawing the in-between spaces and mundane objects that quietly dominate our visual experience of the world. I often work directly from life and primarily en plein air, heavily influenced by the working methods of American street photographers. What does my world really look like? What can I see today that I couldn’t see yesterday and won’t see tomorrow?
Photo by Tom Woodruff.
EDUCATION
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2010–2014
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Summer Travel Intensive Program, Sorrento, Italy
Summer 2013
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Through the Windshield, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, 2023
People from Away, 2900 M, Washington, D.C., 2022
The Hum of the Road, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, D.C., 2022
Shadow and Light, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, D.C., 2018
Beyond the Studio: On-Site Work By Kate Fleming and Tom Woodruff, Falls Church Arts, 2017
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Bethesda Painting Awards Finalists, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD, 2023
Witching Hour, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, D.C., 2023
Co-Create, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN, 2023
Arms Stretched Towards the Clouds, Gallery 3700, Arlington, VA, 2023
SUPERPOSITION, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, D.C., 2022
Inside Out, Upside Down, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. 2021
Monochrome Collective x By the People, Washington, D.C., 2019
POW! WOW! DC International Mural Festival, Washington, D.C., 2018
4th Annual Hand Pulled Prints: The Current Practice in Printmaking, Site: Brooklyn, NY, NY, 2018
3rd Annual Hand Pulled Prints: The Current Practice in Printmaking, Site: Brooklyn, NY, NY, 2017
Artomatic, Arlington, VA, 2017
Ink It: Contemporary Print Practices, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD, 2017
The Contemporary Print, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas, 2017
2nd Annual Hand Pulled Prints: The Current Practice in Printmaking, Site: Brooklyn, NY, NY, 2016
Scenes in the City, Falls Church City Hall, Falls Church, VA, 2015
Printmaking, Falls Church Arts: Artspace, Falls Church, VA, 2015
Artists At Work, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2015
Emerging Artists , The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT, 2014
GRANTS/AWARDS
Third Place, Bethesda Painting Awards, 2023
FY2016 Spotlight Artist Grant, Arlington County Cultural Affairs, 2015
First Place, Falls Church Arts Plein Air Painting Competition, 2015
President’s Art Collection, College of William and Mary, 2013
Louis E. Catron Scholarship for Artistic Development, College of William and Mary, 2013
Joseph Palin Thorley Scholarship in Art, Department of Art and Art History, 2013
RESIDENCIES
The 50 States Project, mobile residency, 2019–2021
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 2019
Rochambeau French International School, Bethesda, MD, 2019
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, 2018
AS IF Center, High Cove, NC, 2018
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2017
PRESS
The Washington Post | Mark Jenkins, “Annual art competition in Bethesda showcases creativity...”
East City Art | Claudia Rousseau, “Painting is Alive and Well: The 19th Annual Bethesda Painting Awards”
Washington City Paper | Louis Jacobson, “2022 Was A Standout Year for Local Photography”
East City Art | Phil Hutinet, “The 50 States Project Part One: Seventeen States and a Global Pandemic”
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Janelle Jessen, “Artists Documenting 50 States make last stop
in Northwest Arkansas”
WJLA ABC7 | Caroline Patrickis, “The 50 States Project: An Arlington couple’s goal to document
the US through travel, art”
Arlington Magazine | Jenny Sullivan, “When Words Become Art”
East City Art | Elsabé Johnson Dixon, “Kate Fleming: Shadow and Light is all in Perspective”
ArlNow | Heather Mongilio, “Lee Highway Retaining Wall Is Getting a Mural”
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Guest Speaker, American University School of Arts and Sciences, 2023
Guest Speaker, George Washington University National Press Photographers Association, 2022
Arts Administrator, LAC Printmaking and Ceramics Studios, Arlington, VA, Feb 2022–present
Exhibits Specialist, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Oct 2016–Oct 2019
Set and Prop Designer, Taffety Punk Theater Company, Pramkicker, Washington, DC, Sept 2018
Exhibits Specialist, Smithsonian Exhibits, Nov 2014–Nov 2015
Painting and Drawing Instructor, Falls Church Arts, Falls Church VA, Sept 2015–May 2017