Kathryn Niles

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Kathryn M. Niles was born in Sidney, New York, 1956. She graduated with a BFA in printmaking and drawing, from Binghamton University in 1993 and with an MFA in printmaking from Colorado State University in 1996. Kathryn taught life drawing at CSU during the fall of 1996 and returned to NY in 1997 where she taught various studio art classes at Binghamton University, SUNY Broome, and Morrisville, SUNY. She has had numerous solo exhibitions regionally; and has been part of group shows, nationally and internationally. Kathryn has won many awards for her work and is a founding member of Gallery 213 on State Street in Binghamton from which she resigned her membership in 2020. She recently reapplied and was accepted once again. She was also represented by Harrington’s PAF Gallery in Sidney, New York, until it’s closing in 2022.

Kathryn’s work can be seen at www.kathrynniles.com, and also in a book entitled, Shimmers, Shadows, and Shells, The Art of Kathryn M. Niles, 2018, as well as other recent publications—Studio Visit, Volume 51, A Juried Selection of Int’l Visual Artists, The Open Studios Press (OSP), 2023; and 109th Annual Exhibition publication, Allied Artists of America, 2022.

If I am asked to select a single form of making art, I would say my first love is to draw. However, my love of making art goes beyond that. I love to draw, paint, make prints, and “put stuff together.” My mediums range from alcohol inks to collage, to oil paint and watercolor, to pen and inks, as well as to pastels, charcoal, graphite, etc.. I am interested in landscape and creatures, architectural work and figures, and any imagery—real or imagined. I can identify a mythical creature in almost anything from floor tile to other artists’ images. I love this about art and making art, and it is my desire to share all these ideas and notions with others as much and as often as possible.