About

Biography

Kathy Goodell was born in San Francisco and attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received both her BFA and MFA in sculpture. Her professors included Jay Defeo, and Jim Nutt. Goodell has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, (2021 emergency grant for Infra-loop), a retrospective exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2013, the BAU Institute, the Camargo Foundation (2014), The David and Julia White Artist’s Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to Romania.



She has exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York Public Library, The Queens Arts Center, the Berkeley Museum, the Paul Anglim Gallery and has been included in major group exhibitions at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, the Boise Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Mendel Art Museum, and the Drawing Center, NY. She exhibited with Willoughby Sharp Gallery, a gallery located at 8 Spring Street in The Bowery, that ran from 1988-1991, and was part of a scene of artists that included the likes of Hannah Wilke, Judith Linhares, Elizabeth King, and Robert Crumb.



Goodell’s work has been reviewed in the Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, White Hot Magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, the New York Times, Arts Magazine, artforum.com, Kathy Goodell: Infra-Loop and Avalanche Magazine, an epochal artist journal published from 1970-1976 that included the work of Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci, and many of the artists we now consider to be historical figures. Her work is represented in several books, including International Glass Art (Schiffer Press), Art in the San Francisco Bay Area (University of California Press), and Bay Area Painting and Sculpture (Squeezer Press). She was also included in the award-winning documentary film “Crumb” directed by Terry Zwigoff, 1995.



Goodell is also an educator, having taught at the University of California, Davis; San Francisco State University; the San Francisco Art Institute; Moore College of Art; and the School of Visual Arts. She is presently a Professor at the State University of New York, in New Paltz, where she lives and works.