Katheryn Holt

"Windswept I" - Large Pastel and Earth Tone Layered Contemporary Abstract Work

2025

Katheryn Holt paints memory. Her abstract paintings are infused with half-remembered landscapes. She has been documenting her interior and exterior life through painting since she was 4 years old. Growing up on Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles, in the 1950s and 1960s, her frame of visual references was formed both by horizon lines extending across a seemingly endless Pacific Ocean and the cultural influences of post-World War 2 America. Holt studied painting at the University of Southern California and graduated with a B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design. She taught at New York’s School of Visual Arts, has won awards from the Society of Illustrators, and was included in American Illustrator and Outstanding American Illustrators. She has exhibited in many solo and group shows, including eight shows at Tria Gallery, New York; national juried competitions including the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, the Santa Cruz Art League, and the Bolinas Museum; and was featured in a recent display in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue in San Francisco. She won first place at the American Pastel Society and is part of the permanent collection in the Kunst Museum, Hollfeld, Germany. Her work has been shown in New York, Germany, Texas, Georgia, Colorado, and California. Solo Exhibitions "Desta at the Depot,” Mill Valley, CA, 2023 "Forces of Nature," Desta Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, 2022 "Gallery Opening Show," Desta Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, 2020 "Horizon’s Light," Desta Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, 2019 "Passage of Time," Desta Gallery, San Anselmo, CA, 2018 “The Art of Beauty,” Saks Fifth Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 2017 “Natural Beauty,” Tria Gallery, NY, 2011 “Water’s Edge,” Laguna Beach, CA, 2010 “Soliloquy,” Tria Gallery, NY, 2009 455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 2002 University of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA, 2001 SF Zen Hospice Center, CA, 2000 San Francisco Bay Club, CA, 2000 The Branson School, Ross, CA, 1999 Mill Valley Arts Commission, CA, 1995 Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, 1994 Michael Thompson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1992 Marin Theater Company, Mill Valley, CA, 1990 Galleries: Desta Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Lori Austin Gallery, Healdsburg American Art Gallery, Carmel Azart Gallery, New York