Biography
Caetlynn Booth (b. Napa, CA) is an artist based in Queens, NY. Recently, she and Amy Lincoln had a two-person exhibition at Project: ArtSpace (New York, NY), and over the past few years, her work has been featured at Pulse Art Fair in Miami Beach with Project: ArtSpace (New York); and in shows at My Pet Ram (New York); Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn); Able Baker Contemporary (Portland, ME); The American Academy of Arts & Letters Gallery (New York); ODETTA (Brooklyn); and Penn State Galleries (State College, PA), among others. Booth was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a D.A.A.D. grant for a painting and research project in Berlin, Germany, and she has completed residencies at I-A-M Institut and GlogauAIR in Berlin, at the Vermont Studio Center, and at the Noxubee Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. She received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2011), and BA from the University of California at Davis (2002).
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EDUCATION
U.S. Fulbright Fellowship, Berlin, Germany (2011-12)
MFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ (2011)
BA, University of California at Davis, CA (2002)
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 Caetlynn Booth: New Work, One River School of Art + Design, Allendale, NJ
2019 PERENNIAL VISIONS, Amy Lincoln & Caetlynn Booth, Project: ArtSpace, New York, NY
2013 Zeitgleich, chashama 461 gallery, New York, NY
2013 Zeitgleich, Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2011 Night Vision, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2009 Dark Properties, Bloom Gallery, Napa, CA
2004 The Portrait Project, Napa Valley College Gallery, Napa, CA
2004 Caetlynn Booth & Mollie Oblinger, Arsenal 17, Benicia, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Big Show, My Pet Ram gallery, New York, NY
2021 Fulbright Program 75th Anniversary Exhibition, online exhibition, Washington, DC
2021 Destination Unknown, Perch Arthouse online exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2020 Congruence, curated by Bridgette Mayer, I Like Your Work online exhibition, Dayton, OH
2020 Your Color, My Line, Able Baker Contemporary online exhibition, Portland, ME
2020 AIR show, The Partnership, Starkville, MS
2019 Ridgewood Holiday Benefit Show, Supermoon, Ridgewood, NY
2019 Shift, curated by Tracy McKenna, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2019 Kick Off!, Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood, NY
2019 Reservoir Dogs V, Reservoir Art Space, Queens, NY
2018 PULSE Art Fair, Project: ArtSpace, Miami Beach, FL
2018 Art to Go: A Benefit for Make the Road New York, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Reservoir Dogs IV, Reservoir Art Space, Queens, NY
2018 Plus One, Project: ArtSpace, New York, NY
2017 The 2018 Flat File: Year Five, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Et Tu, Art Brute?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2017 COLLECT!, benefit exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2017 Reservoir Dogs, Reservoir Art Space, Queens, NY
2017 SEEP, traveling exhibition: Woskob Gallery, Penn State, State College, PA
2017 Underdonk Presents: Benefit 2017, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Ceremonial Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
2017 Wetlands, Holt Russell Gallery, Baker University, Baldwin City, KS
2017 River/Woman, ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
2017 SEEP, traveling exhibition: Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2016 Glacial Forest, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Reservoir Dogs, Reservoir Art Space, Queens, NY
2016 Making the Future, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2016 DEAL WITH IT, Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA
2016 New Additions to the Collection, Noxubee Nat’l Wildlife Refuge, Brooksville, MS
2016 30th Anniversary Benefit, Exhibit & Auction, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2015 25JAHRE, Ackerstrasse 18, Berlin, Germany
2015 Four Options, 245 Varet, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Reservoir Dogs, Reservoir Art Space, Queens, NY
2015 Family Ties, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 New Work City, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014 The Dam Show, Reservoir Art Space, Queens, NY
2014 Second Family, 2 Rivington Gallery, New York, NY
2014 New Work, BOS, Linden Project Space, Queens, NY
2013 NurtureArt Benefit, curated benefit exhibition, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, NY, NY
2013 48 Stunden Neukölln, Büro für Bestimmte Dinge, Berlin, Germany
2012 BOS, Laundromat Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 In Between: Figuration and Abstraction, Nouvel Organon, Paris, France
2012 Spring Open Studios Exhibition, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2011 Winter Open Studios Exhibition, GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2011 Masters on Main, 460 Main Street Gallery, Catskill, NY
2011 NOWhere, White Box, New York, NY
2011 Touching Base, curated by Robin Hill, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2010 Nurture Art Benefit, curated benefit, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
2010 7th International Exhibition, juried by Mary Birmingham, SICA, Long Branch, NJ
2010 WLCM BCK, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2010 Vox VI, Juried by William Powhida & Jennifer Dalton, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2009 First Year MFA Exhibition, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2009 My Face in Your Space, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Postcard 12, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2008 Group Show, Solano College Gallery, Suisun, CA
2007 I.O.U., Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
2007 Group Show, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
2006 Feast of Eden, Land Trust of Napa County, Napa, CA
2006 Paradise: Lost & Found, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
2006 Northern California Small Works, ACSC Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
2005 Group Show, Bloom Gallery, Napa, CA
2005 SVMA Biennial 2005, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2005 MAYHEM, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2004 Out of the Box, Hess Collection, Napa, CA
2004 Terra Infirma, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
2002 Nature Remains, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2002 Sculpture Biennial, 600 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA
2001 Juried Art Show, Memorial Union Gallery, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA
2001 Tri-Sected, Basement Gallery, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA
GRANTS & AWARDS
2021 City Artist’s Corps Grant, NYFA, New York, NY
2019 Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Award, New York, NY
2017 Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2014 Queens Council on the Arts Grant, Queens, NY
2013 chashama Exhibition Grant, New York, NY
2012 Ladany Foundation Grant, Merrick, NY
2012 Kittredge Fund Grant, Cambridge, MA
2012-13 D.A.A.D. Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
2011-12 Fulbright Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
2011 Diney Goldsmith Fellowship for the Vermont Studio Center
2011 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Nominee
2011 CAA Honorable Mention Award, Professional Development in the Visual Arts, New York, NY
2010-11 Full Teaching Assistantship, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ
2001 Office of the President’s Award, UCDC Center, Washington, DC
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
The Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Brooksville, MS (2014)
I-A-M Institut, Berlin, Germany (2013)
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2012)
GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany (2011-12)
COLLECTIONS
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Brooksville, MS
Private collections
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 ArtMaze Mag, Anniversary Issue 20, curated by Zoe Fisher, London, UK
2020 FOA, Vol. 12, Summer 2020, Dallas, TX
2020 “Your Color, My Line” exhibition catalog, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2019 Art Spiel, “Plastic Expressions in Particularity: Nature Moves in Tracy McKenna’s Shift at Able Baker Contemporary,” Julien Langevin, November 21, 2019
2019 Caetlynn Booth, 52 Critical Painters: Featured Artist, by Kevin Smith, July 1, 2019
2017 The 2018 Flat File: Year Five, Exhibition Catalog, Tiger Strikes Asteroid
2017 Napa Valley Register, “Archer hotel includes in house art collection,” Dec. 2, 2017
2017 The New Criterion, “Gallery Chronicle,” James Panero, Vol. 35, No. 8, April 2017, pg. 60-62
2017 Gallery Travels blog, Anne Russinof, “River Woman at Odetta Gallery,” April 19, 2017
2017 The Washington Post, “In the Galleries: Four Curators Share One Spotlight,” Mark Jenkins, March 17, 2017
2017 The New Criterion online, “Critic’s Notebook,” the Editors, Mar. 15, 2017
2017 Curator’s Spotlight, Exhibition Catalogue, Arlington Arts Center, Essay by Ann Tarantino
2016 MAAKE Magazine, Issue #3, December 2016
2016 MAAKE Magazine, Caetlynn Booth, Featured Artist Interview, Jun. 30, 2016
2015 Two Coats of Paint, "A selection from Bushwick Open Studios, 2015," Jun. 11, 2015
2015 Bushwick Daily, “We Love You Ridgewood: The Other Side of Bushwick Open Studios,” Jun. 11, 2015
2014 Starkville Daily News, “Artists in residence inspired by Refuge,” Vol. 110, Issue, No. 303, Oct. 30, 2014, pg. A1, A5
2013 L.A. Review of Books, Cover Image, “The Fiction Issue"
2013 The Brooklyn Review, Issue 30, Samuel Jablon, Arts Editor
2011 New American Paintings, Vol. 93, juried by Randi Hopkins, Associate Director of Visual Arts, Boston Center for the Arts
2011 Rutgers Magazine, The Arts, “Night Moves, ” Fall 2011 Edition
2011 Napa Valley Register, “Caetlynn Booth: An artist on the rise – and on the wing to study in Germany,” Natalie Hoffman, 6/12/11
2011 California Aggie, Arts, “Alumni art exhibition touches base with post-graduates in their quest in the art world,” Uyen Cao, 4/7/11
2011 The Sacramento Bee, Art Galleries, “Art Show honors former UC Davis students who have progressed as professionals,” Victoria Dalkey, Apr. 6, 2011
2010 New American Paintings, Vol. 87, juried by Raphaela Platow, Director and Chief Curator, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
2010 Philadelphia Weekly, Arts & Culture, “Vox VI, The sixth annual emerging-artist show is extra loud this time around,” Roberta Fallon, Jul. 20, 2010
2009 Blanket Magazine, The Portrait Issue, Vol. 16, Edited by Bec Brown, pg. 42, 124
2009 I.O.U., Mission 17’s 4th Annual Juried Exhibition Catalogue, Edited by Clark Buckner
2004 Benicia Herald, “Artists’ works examine inside, and out,” Dana Enfinger, Sept. 17, 2004 pg. A-1, A-2
2003 The Napa Valley Register, “Solefull Art,”Gary Brady-Herndon, Apr. 9, 2003, pg. C1, C2
2003 ArtScan, “Caetlynn Booth’s Shoe Soul,” Ann Trinca, March/April, 2003, pg.3
CURATORIAL
2023 Rounding the Corner, New work by Kristian Armour-Williams, Conduit Gallery at Reservoir Studios, Queens, NY
2022 Richard Haley: Inhabiting the Space…, Conduit Gallery at Reservoir Studios, Queens, NY
2021 Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Conduit Gallery at Reservoir Studios, Queens, NY
2021 Help! I’m a Rock, organizer, Conduit Gallery at Reservoir Studios, Queens, NY
2020 Wild Tangents, Conduit Gallery at Reservoir Studios, Queens, NY
2013 10 Years Too Late, Abteilung für Alles Andere, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
2011 Tyson Washburn: Inverted Landscapes, 227 Project Space, MGSA Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2010 Amy Lincoln: New Work, 227 Project Space, MGSA Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2010 WLCM BCK, co-curator, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2004-06 Pearl Necklace, a quarterly art 'zine, co-founder & editor, Napa, CA
2004 Comics Stripped, curator with Ann Trinca, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa CA