BIO AND STATEMENT
Catie Cook is a painter raised in Gainesville, GA. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The University of Georgia with a BFA in Studio Art, Art History, and Museum Studies in 2023. She is currently a Master of Fine Arts Candidate at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts in St. Louis, Missouri.
Cook’s paintings employ a menagerie of animals intermixed with imagery from her childhood,1950s Hollywood films, and the online subcultures of teenage girls, to question the ways in which our patriarchal society demands performance and perfection. Inspired by her upbringing in the American South, surrounded by the pageantry of the church, debutante culture, and beauty pageants, Cook’s paintings harness the symbol of the stage as a metaphor for the performativity of gender. Drawn to the language of theatre, she paints highly idealized imagery and carefully constructed scenes that, though imitating reality, often feel eerie and artificial. Through the strangeness of a drape of fabric or illusion of stage lighting, there is a lingering reminder that her characters are performing for your gaze —- a feeling so emblematic of the female experience.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
Washington University St. Louis, MO
Sam Fox School of design & visual arts
Masters of Fine Arts Candidate 2025
University of Georgia Athens, GA
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences — Bachelor of Fine Arts 2023
Major: Painting; Minor: Art History; Certificate: Museum Studies
GPA:3.94
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Teaching Experience
Assistant in Instruction, Painting Studio: Material Culture, Professor Jamie Adams, 2024​
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Assistant in Instruction, 2D Design, Professor Cheryl Wassenaar, 2024
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2024
Compulsion, Athica Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
The Red Show, Galerie Shibumi, New York, NY
The University of Mississippi Graduate Student Juried Exhibition, Gallery 130, University, MS
You Can't Be For Real, 2222 Art Studio, St. Louis, MO
10th Biannual Exhibition, Angad Arts Hotel, St. Louis, MO
Hide and Seek MFA Candidacy Exhibition, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, St. Louis, MO
Parabola, Deslee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2023
SABR, Tech Artista, St. Louis, MO
So Many Hammers, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, St. Louis, MO
Stop Motion, Voltz Clarke Gallery, New York, NY
BFA Exit Show, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Ga
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2022
Quarter Life Crisis Show, The Creamery Studios, Atlanta, GA
Lamar Dodd Art Market, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
Pretty in Pink, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
La Mostra, University of Georgia Jack Kehoe Center, Cortona, Italy
Carnival of Sorts II, Southern Brewing Company, Athens, GA
Lamar Dodd Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, juried by Claire Dempster, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2021
Dodd Art Market, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
Carnival of Sorts I, The 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
GALA Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Student Juror, Gainesville, GA
2019
Georgia Art education Association Student exhibition, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Kiwanis Club Charles J. Thurman Youth Art Month, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA
UNG Art Educators and their Students Exhibition, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA
Kennesaw State University student exhibition, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2024
You Can't Be For Real, 2222 Art Studio, St. Louis, MO
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2023
History of Performing Arts, Hargrett Library, Co-curator, Athens, GA
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2022
Trick or Treat, The Georgia Museum of Art, Co-curator, Athens, GA
Pretty in Pink, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Co-curator, Athens, GA
Work Experience
2024
Muralist, Color The World Bright, Athens, GA
August 2021- present
Ambassador, Vice President of External Affairs, Lamar Dodd School of Art Ambassadors, Athens, GA
March 2020- May 2023
Intern, Education Department, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
August 2022- December 2022
Intern, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA
May 2021- July 2021
Pretty in Pink by Dr. Katie Geha
https://art.uga.edu/galleries/pretty-pink
Stop Motion - Voltz Clarke Contemporary Inc.
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Carnival of Sorts presents "Life on Mars" group art exhibition by Dr. Katie Geha
https://art.uga.edu/news/carnival-sorts-presents-life-mars-group-art-exhibition