COMMISSIONS, GRANTS, AWARDS, FAIRS
2025 NJ State Council on the Arts Commission at The College of New Jersey, NJ
2024 Scholar’s Village Commission residential lobby sculpture, Jersey City, NJ
2023 NJ State Council on the Arts Commission, for Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
2022 Restorative City Grant, Design Trust, NYC NY
Plastic Free Philly Competition Winner, National Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia PA
Artist in Education Residency, Liberty High School, Jackson, NJ
2021 RC Public Library Commission, curated by Fung Collaboratives, for Redwood City, CA
Exchange Place Alliance Commission, for Jersey City, NJ
Summit Public Art Commission for Summit Parkline Trail, Summit, NJ
Ringwood Manor Commission, Ringwood, NJ
2020 Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Mid Atlantic Arts Fdn
Summit Public Art Commission for Kaus Way, Summit, NJ
2019 14C Art Fair, represented by Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2018 Summit Public Art commission for Promenade Park, Summit, NJ
2017 Baltimore Purple Line Transit, semi-finalist, Hyattsville, MD
2016 Lake Cook Stormwater Treatment project, semi-finalist, Alexandria, VA
2015 20/20 Public Space Champion, awarded by the Design Trust for Public Space, NYC, NY
Carnegie Library Atrium, semi-finalist, Oregon City Public Library, Oregon City, OR
Brower Student Center, semi-finalist, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
2014 General Services Administration semi-finalist, Brookland Middle School. Washington, D.C.
2013 Artlantic commission, curated by Lance Fung/Fung Collaboratives, Atlantic City, NJ
NJ Transit commission for Newark Penn Station, Newark, NJ
2011 NJ Transit commission for Hoboken Ferry Slip, Hoboken, NJ
2010 NJ Transit commission for South Amboy Train Station, South Amboy, NJ
2006 NJ Transit 0000commission for Newark-Elizabeth Light Rail Atlantic St. Station, Newark, NJ
2002 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Visual Arts Initiative, Morristown, NJ
2001 NJ Transit Commission for Hudson-Bergen Light Rail System 22nd St. Station, Bayonne, NJ
2000-5 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Artist-in-Education Fellow, Trenton, NJ
1999 Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link Public Art Design Team Artist, NJ Transit, Newark, NJ
1998 Design Trust Fellowship for a Children’s Garden , Brooklyn, NY
1997 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
1996 Exceptional Merit Award, “15th Annual Metro Show”, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 “You’re Invited”, site-specific installation for the Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
2025 “Omnipresent/Outerwear”, exhibit and installation for Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY
2024 “Kate Dodd: New Work” exhibit and site-specific installation for Hunterdon Art Museum, curated by Marjorie Nathanson, Clinton, NJ
2023 “Bay Ridge Tree Collection” site-specific installation and community outreach for Brooklyn Public Library, as part of “Bay Ridge Though An Ecological Lens” curated by Jeannine Bardo and Jennifer McGregor, Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Icarus and Friends”, Passaic County Cultural Arts Center, Hawthorne NJ
2022 “Bits and Pieces”, West Orange Public Library, West Orange NJ
2021 “Efflorescence” outdoor installation for Lewes Public Art Commission, George H P Smith Park, Lewes, DE with Karin Bravin as consultant
2020 “Midden” site specific installation for Fresh Air Montclair, curated by Mary See, Montclair, NJ
2019 “Generations” works on paper, Hillside Square Gallery, Bravitas Group, Montclair, NJ
“Incubator”, site specific installation for Redwood City Art Kiosk, CA, curated by Fung 0000Collaboratives
2016 “Before Brick City”, site specific installation for Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
“Overbooked”, site specific installation for Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
"Kate Dodd: Selected Works", The Orange, a pop-up gallery, Berkeley, CA,
2015 "False Spring", site specific installation for Baird Community Center, South Orange , NJ
2014 "Disposable Habits", site specific installation for Drawing Rooms, Jersey City , NJ
2013 "Composting Cars", site specific installation for The Pierro Gallery and Village of South Orange, NJ
2012 "Water: Illusions of Purity", indoor/outdoor site specific installation for The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
"History of Tau In(side) 100 Objects", site specific installation for The Pierro Gallery and Village of South Orange, NJ
2011 "Resurfacing", site specific installation for The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
2007 "Smoke and Mirrors", site specific installation for Rupert Ravens Contemporary Newark NJ
2004 "Time Frame", kinetic site specific installation for Union County College, Cranford, NJ
2002 "Bottle Bloom", site specific installation for Meadowland Park, South Orange, NJ 2001
“Woven Cognition”, photographic works, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
“You Are Here”, site-specific trail commissioned by Pierro Gallery, South Orange NJ 1999 “Growth”, site specific installation, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
1998 “Between The Lines”, site-specific installation, Rutgers University. Newark, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 “Shadows”, RAM Gallery, Summit, NJ
“Female Hysteria”, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2025 “Open book (Altered)”, Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
“Garden of Delights”, Artport, Kingston, NY
“Stay Frosty”, curated by Karin Bravin, Harlem, NY
2024 “Black and White Imprint”, Studio Montclair, curated by Onnie Strothers, Montclair, NJ
2023 “The Unbearable Lightness”, Drawing Rooms, curated by Anne Trauben, Jersey City, NJ
2022 “Climate Conversations”, The Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA
“The Embankment On My Mind”, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
“In Proximity”, OutLeft Gallery, NYC NY
“North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show”, N Bennington, VT
2021 “All We Can Save”, 22 North Gallery, Ypsilanti MI, traveling to multiple venues 2020
“Ten Artists’ Prayer Flags At The Topps Building For JCAST”, curated by Anne Trauben, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City , NJ
“Vanishing Worlds”, curated by Yvette Lucas, 14 Maple Gallery, Morristown, NJ
2019 “On a Different Page”, curated by Eileen Ferrara, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ
“Mounds , Piles, and Massings”, curated by Greg Leshe, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
2018 “Somewhere We Landed”, curated by Anne Trauben, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City , NJ
“Art That Binds”, curated by Christy O’Connor and Caroline Northrup, Atlantic Highlands Art Council, Atantic Highlands, NJ
“The River Between Us”, Strasburg Biennial curated by Rupert Ravens, Shen MOCA, Strasburg, VA
“Approaching Vibrancy”, curated by Mary Birmingham and Sarah Walko, Morris Arts, Morristown, NJ
2017 “On a Different Page”, curated by Eileen Ferrara, NJ City University, Jersey City, NJ
“It’s Happening”, curated by Jennifer Lantzas, NYC Department of Parks, Central Park, NYC
“Windows on Valley”, curated by Sandy Martiny, Dept of Cultural Affairs, South Orange, NJ
“Annual Sculpture Invitational”, curated by Tricia Zimic, Wildflower Sculpture Park, NJ
2015 “Working the Unit”, curated by Jeanne Brasile, Index Arts Center, Newark, NJ
2014 “IN-SITE: the Intersection of Art and Architecture”, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
“Thou Art Mom”, curated by Susan Evans Grove, The Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2013 "Flow Follows Flow", curated by Rupert Ravens, Rupert Ravens Nexxt, Paterson, NJ
2012 "Submissions and Transmissions", curated by Rupert Ravens, Rupert Ravens Contemporary Gallery, Newark, NJ
2010 "Committed", curated by Judy Wukitsch, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2009 Bumpkin Island Artists Encampment exhibit, Fort Point Open Studio, Boston, MA
"Cutters", curated by Mary Birmingham, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ catalog 2007 0000
2006 "Out There", NJ Arts Annual, curated by Beth Venn and Alyson Baker, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ catalog
EDUCATION
1990 Master of Fine Arts, Division of Painting and Sculpture, School of the Arts, Columbia University, NY
1983 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude Major: Sculpture, Minor: Ceramics Pratt Institute, NY