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Name
Kate Breakey
Books
Painted Light
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Kate Breakey is a visual artist known for her large-scale, hand-colored photographs. Since 1981 her work has appeared in more than 75 solo exhibitions and more than 50 group exhibitions in the United States, France, Japan, Australia, China, and New Zealand. Her work is in the permanent collection of many public institutions including the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Wittliff collections at Texas State University, the Austin Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and the Osaka Museum in Japan. In 2004, she received the Photographer of the Year Award from the Houston Center for Photography.
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Biography
Kate Breakey was born in Port Lincoln, South Australia on 14 August 1957. She achieved a Diploma in Graphic Design from the University of South Australia in 1978, and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the same university in 1981. In 1988, Breakey moved to Austin, Texas, where she completed a Master of Fine Art at the University of Texas in 1991, and where she taught photography in the university's Department of Art and Art History until 1997. In 1999, Breakey moved to Tucson, Arizona. In addition to participating in countless solo and group exhibitions, she is regularly invited to be a guest speaker and to teach throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Selected Public Collections
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, TX
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Snell and Wilmour Collection, Tucson, AZ
Harry Ransom Center, Photography Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX
Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
University of Texas (School of Law), Austin, TX
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
South Australian Law Courts, Adelaide, Australia
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Albury Regional Arts Center, Albury, Australia
City of Toowoomba Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
Riddock Gallery, Mt Gambier, Australia
Osaka Museum, Osaka, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 - Small Deaths, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
2014 - Out of Darkness, Cattletrack Art Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2014 - Au, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX
2013 - Heartland, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2013 - Creatures of Light and Darkness, Temple of Music and Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2013 - Grasslands, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2013 - Small Deaths, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
2012 - Las Sombras/The Shadows, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX
2012 - Las Sombras/The Shadows, Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2012 - Painted Light, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO
2003 - Kate Breakey, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
2003 - Firsthand: Evocations of Figure and Form, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2003 - Still Life, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX
2002 - Resurrection: the floral images of Kate Breakey, Segura Art, Mesa, AZ
2002 - Small Deaths, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia
2002 - The Image Chamber, Flora, Fauna, Fact and Dream, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2001 - Kate Breakey, Photographs, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2001 - Small Deaths, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX
2001 - Small Deaths, Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2001 - Recent Work, Stephen L. Clark Gallery Austin, TX
2001 - Hand painted photograph, Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2001 - Small Deaths, Julie Saul Gallery, NY, NY
2000 - Naturagraphia, Temple of Music and Art Gallery, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2000 - The Nature of Things, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX
2000 - Memento Mori, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 - Flora and Fauna, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1999 - Small Deaths, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1999 - 12 Flowers, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX
1998 - Photoworks, Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, South West Texas State University, TX
1998 - Slow Light, Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX
1998 - Small Deaths, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Fotofest, Houston, TX
1997 - Kate Breakey, Small Deaths, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
1994-5 - Laws of Physics - Principles of Mathematics, New Zealand International Festival of Arts, Wellington, New Zealand
1994-5 - Laws of Physics - Principles of Mathematics, Adelaide Festival Centre Artspace Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1994-5 - Laws of Physics - Principles of Mathematics, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
1992 - Laws of Physics, American Association for the Advancement of Science's Art of Science and Technology Program, Atrium Gallery AAAS, Washington, DC
1989 - Portraits of South Australian Aborigines, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, Australia
1988 - Encounters 1, South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1988 - Portraits of South Australian Aborigines, South Australian Touring Exhibition, Australia
1987 - Portraits of South Australian Aborigines, Festival Theatre Foyer, Adelaide, Australia
1986 - Scientists, Life-Sized Portraits, Festival Theatre Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1984 - Painted Photos, The Photographers' Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1984 - Painted Photos, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
1982 - Painted Photos, The Developed Image Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 - ART + SCIENCE, Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV
2014 - Without and Within: Photographs by Keith Carter and Kate Breakey, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2014 - New Acquisitions, Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2013 - Mexico Lindo, Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2013 - Lies That Tell the Truth: Magic Realism in Contemporary Art, Indiana State University Art Gallery, Terre Haute, IN
2013 - Twentieth Anniversary Show (with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Keith Carter, James Evans, Jack Spencer, Rick Williams, Bill Wittliff), Stephen L. Clark Gallery, Austin, TX
2008 - The Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2007 - Latent Image, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
2006 - A Little More Red, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX
2006 - Arts Botanica, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2006 - Magical Realism, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
2005 - Off the Wall (with Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison and Rocky Schenck), Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 - The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age, Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2005 - Through the Lens, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
2005 - Focal Points, Contemporary Southern Photography, Baum Gallery, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AK
1977 - Adelaide Art Engravers Award, Outstanding Graphic Design Student
Books
Las Sombras/The Shadows. Breakey, Kate. University of Texas Press, Wittliff Collection series, Austin, TX 2012. ISBN 978-0292744202
Slow Light. Breakey, Kate. Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ 2011. ISBN 978-0976950837
Painted Light. Breakey, Kate. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX 2010. ISBN 978-0292723191
Flowers/Birds. Breakey, Kate. Eastland Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0972549202
Small Deaths: Photographs. Breakey, Kate (introduction by A. D. Coleman). University of Texas Press, Wittliff Gallery Series, Austin, TX 2001. ISBN 978-0292709010
Our Backyard. Swearer, Randolph and Breakey, Kate. Lupine Industries, 1994. ISBN 978-0964192409
