| Kate Philbrick grew up in northern Maine and has been a professional photographer since 1992. She currently lives in Gorham Maine and is Director of the Photography Program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland Maine. Kate earned her BFA at the University of Southern Maine and her MFA at the Art Institute of Boston. She has studied with Mary Ellen Mark through the Maine Photographic Workshops; and was named one of the top 100 photographers of the 1997 Golden Light Awards. Kate has exhibited her work at the 3rd Ward Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Snapper Bear Studios in NoHo, New York City, the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, in addition to various local Maine galleries. Her photographs have been published in Yankee Magazine, Ready Made Magazine, Story magazine and in the television program Real Simple, May 2007.
Education
1992 BFA Photography, University of Southern Maine
1992 Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
1997 Maine Photographic Workshops, Mary Ellen Mark Seminar
2008 MFA, Art Institute of Boston
Exhibitions
| 2008 |
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Biennial Juried Exhibition, Rockport, Maine |
| 2008 |
700 Beacon Street Gallery, MFA Graduate Exhibition, Boston, MA |
| 2007 |
808 Gallery, Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston, MA |
| 2007 |
Aucocisco Gallery, Domestic Exposure, solo exhibition, Portland, ME |
| 2006 |
3rd Ward Gallery, Story Annual Show, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2006 |
Front Room Gallery, Holiday Group Show, South Portland, ME |
| 2006 |
Bakery Photographic Collective, Annual Group Show, Westbrook, ME |
| 2006 |
Front Room Gallery, Home Land Security, solo exhibition, South Portland, ME |
| 2004 |
Maine Historical Society Museum, The Camera’s Coast, Portland, ME |
| 1998 |
Salt Institute Gallery, A Personal Perspective, Portland, ME |
| 1997 |
Snapper Bear Studios, 1997 Golden Light Awards Show, New York City, NY |
| 1995 |
Portland Museum of Art, 25 Years of Salt Photography, Portland, ME |
| 1994 |
Various Galleries & Universities, The Art of Documentary Photography, traveling |
Selected Publications
2006 Story Magazine, “Harold and Becky”, December
2006 ReadyMade Magazine, “Do it Yourself Weddings”
2004 Yankee Magazine, “Many faces of Maine”, March
1995 University Press, Maine: A Peopled Landscape
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