Deborah Kass, Painter

Ms. Kass studied at the Art Students League and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and received her B.F.A. in painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 1974. A survey exhibition, Deborah Kass, The Warhol Project, toured the United States from 1999 to 2001. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jewish Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and New Orleans Museum of Art, among others. She has exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennale, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Ms. Kass has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is represented by the Paul Kasmin Gallery and Vincent Fremont, where she will have a solo show in the fall of 2007. Ms. Kass was appointed senior critic in painting/printmaking in 2005.