Bio

Kathleen Greco is a conceptual visual artist. Greco received her MFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from the Philadelphia College of Art. Greco's artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries including the Museum of Art and Design New York, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., Hayward Gallery, England UK, Woodmere Art Museum, Pennsylvania, Elisabet Ney Museum, Texas, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany, and Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria. Her sculpture was included in the collaborative Coral Reef Pod World's installation in the Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019, Venice, Italy and was exhibited in Getty’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide Exhibition 2025.

Greco's art is included in private and public collections.

Statement

Minimalist in concept, I am a visual artist informed by our living history exploring the human experience often exposing social undercurrents. My interdisciplinary studio practice comprises contemporary works on paper, paintings, photography and sculpture. Applying knowledge from my industrial design background, I pair relationships of metamorphic materials and transformative techniques letting them dictate the investigation including, graphite, charcoal, wax pastels, and flower petals.

Driven by discovery and process, I let the materials guide the outcome of my body of work. Not limiting myself to one medium, I select materials and methods that conceptually and physically respond to the ideas I am exploring guiding the outcome of my body of work. Choreographing relationships, conditions, and materials to engage and inform, similar to changes we experience in life, my work investigates themes of fragility, resilience, memory, and transition suggesting a bigger materiality lies underneath and within the surfaces.

My influences include painter Mark Rothko, "a painting is an expression of the artist's notion of reality… not a rendering of a particular thing."