KATHLEEN MCCARTHY
EDUCATION
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Masters of Science Ecology & Evolution 2009
Indiana University, Bloomington, ID, MFA
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY BFA
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
iLAND Research Event, Creating Habitat, Form and Function, Soundview Park, New
York, NY 2014, 2015
iLAB Collaborative Residency, New York, NY 2010
Collaboration with a marine ecologist and movement artists that created opportunities
for the public to experience the physical and ecological connections in Newtown Creek,
Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
Weir Farm Residency. 1999
Macdowell Colony residency grant. 1992
NEA Visual Arts, Individual Artists Grant, Sculpture.1989
NEA Visual Arts, Individual Artists Grant, Sculpture.1988
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2023 MTA, (Metropolitan Transportation Authority), New York City, permanent glass and wire mesh installation, Woodhaven Blvd, Queens, NY
2004 Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City. Willow Lake Playground,
Forest Hills, Queens.
1992 MTA, (Metropolitan Transportation Authority), New York City, permanent site specific
installations in five elevated subway stations, Queens, NY.
LANDSCAPE RESTORATION & CONSERVATION
Natural Resources Group, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, New
York, NY
Idlewild Landscape Restoration Project Manager, July 2016 to 2025.
• Develop and implement a 10-year restoration plan to transform over 70 acres of
ruderal/invasive plant dominated landscape to a native coastal plant community in
Idlewild Park, NYC
• Collaborate with Parks’ conservation team and community members to design and
implement a Diamondback Terrapin conservation plan
Ecological Restoration Project Manager, Fall 2010 to Summer 2016
• Soundview Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration (Partners: USACE, NYSDOS, DSNY)
• Meadow Lake Shoreline Restoration and Stormwater Bioretention Basin
• Spring Creek Restoration (Partners: USACE, NFWF)
Research Assistant/Bronx River Riparian Invasive Plant Project, Spring, Late summer
2010
• Wetland and Riparian Rapid Assessment Protocols 2009
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD,
Amphibian Ecology field technician, June-July 2010.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
1991: San Francisco Airports Commission.
1990: Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City.
1987: In the President’s Board Room, C.W. Post , Long Island University
1985: Falling Dream, White Columns Gallery, New York City.
1983: Lead Head, Window Installation, Public Image Gallery, New York City.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002-2003
Images from Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, New York Hall of
Science. Lennart Nilsson Conference on Scientific Photography, Stockholm, Arnhem,
Netherlands.
2000:
Millennium Bug, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY,
Project Space, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY.
Director’s Choice, Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY.
1994:
Art En Route, PaineWebber Art Gallery, NYC 1993:
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, NYC.
The Apartment Store, Exit Art,
1992:
Functional objects by artists and architects, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Il.
Object Choice, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY.
The Auto-Erotic Object, Hunter College Gallery, NYC
Between the Sheets, P.P.O.W., New York City.
1991:
Critical Mass, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD.
1990:
Art What Thou Eat; Images of Food in American Art, Bard College, Annandale ¬on-
Hudson, N Y, and The New York Historical Society, New York, NY.
Alchemy, Gracie Mansion Gallery.
Maren Hassinger, Kathleen McCarthy, Sarah Rodgers, Mary Zeigler, The Sculpture
Center, New York, NY. 1989:
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hillwood Museum, CW Post,
Greenvale New York, and Blum Helman Warehouse, New York City.
Mixed Messages, Ruggiero Henis Gallery, New York City.
1988:
In the Making, The Sculpture Center, New York City.
Portraits, The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska.
Blue Angel: The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in Postfeminist Sculpture, A.I.R. Gallery,
NYC; Space 111, Birmingham, Alabama; Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY.
1987:
Personal Poetics, Sala 1, Rome, Italy.
Dale Que Dale;Immediate past, Bronx River Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
1986:
Update, White Columns Gallery, NY, NY.
Heads, Mokotoff Gallery.
Not Nice, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.
The Doll Show:Artist’s Dolls and Figurines, Hillwood Art Gallery, CW Post, LIU,
Greenvale, NY.
1985:
Auto da Fe, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York City.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
• Haight, C. & Tobing, S. L. & Schuler, J. A. & Larson, M. & McCarthy, K. & Kriesberg, R.
& Yau, F. & Palmer, M. I. "Japanese Knotweed Management in the Riparian Zone of the
Bronx River." Ecological Restoration, vol. 35 no. 4, 2017, pp. 298-302.
• McCarthy, K. & Lathrop, R.G. Jr. "Stormwater basins of the New Jersey coastal plain:
Subsidies or sinks for frogs and toads?". Urban Ecosystems, vol.14, issue 3, pp 395-
413.
ART PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS & CATALOGS
Images from Science, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2002.
Cover Object Choice, Ken Gonzales Day and Andrew Perchuk, Hallwalls Contemporary
Art Center, Buffalo, NY, 1992.
percent for art: a review, Lord Palumbo of Walbrook, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1991.
Art What Thou Eat, Images of Food in American Art, Gustafson, Rothschild, Taylor,
Vincent, Weintraub, Moyer Bell Limited, Mount Kisco, NY. 1991.
Lines of Vision; Drawings by Contemporary Women., Judy K. Collischan Van Wagner,
Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1989.
Portraits: Here’s Looking At You. Ann Fitzgibbons Anchorage Museum of History and Art,
Anchorage, Alaska, 1988.
Blue Angel: The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in Postfeminist Sculptaure; Bronx Council
on the Arts 1987.
Personal Poetics; Sala 1, Rome, Italy,1987.
SELECTED ARTICLES
Holland Cotter, “Way Up in the Bronx”, The New York Times, May 7, 1999.
David Dunlap, Next Stop, Murals; “Change Here for Uptown Sculpture”, The New York
Times, May 1, 1998.
William Grimes, “Raising Artistic Sights of Riders in Nether and Upper Regions”, The
New York Times, August 22, 1994.
B.L., “The New Look on the J and Z, The New York Times, March 6, 1994.
Mary Mauney Pierce, “Sign Off, Arts for Transit”, HOW, August 1993.
Grace Glueck, “Gallery Watch”, The New York Observer, November 2, 1992.
KIm Levin, “Voice Choices”, The Village Voice, October 20, 1992.
Arlene Raven, “Saving Face”, The Village Voice, June 2, 1992.
Roberta Smith, “Body, Body, Everywhere, Whole and Fragmented”, The New York
Times, May 15, 1992.
Elizabeth Hess, “Dirty Laundry,”The Village Voice,May 12, 1992.
Kim Levin, “Art in Brief/Between the Sheets”,The Village Voice, May 12, 1992.
Frederieke S. Taylor, “Alchemy”, New Observations, Fall, 1991.
Aldofo Guarch, “Las Cabezas Monumentales”, El Tiempo, June 25, 1991.
Patricia Phillips, “Kathleen McCarthy, Gracie Mansion”, Artforum, December 1990.
Peggy Cyphers, “New York in Review: Kathleen McCarthy”, ARTS, December 1990.
Kim Levin, “Choices: Kathleen McCarthy”, Village Voice, October 9, 1990.
Scott Gutterman, “Natural and Unnatural Causes”, Art International, Autumn 1990.
Karin Lipson, “Dip Into These Drawings By Contemporary Women”, Newsday, June 9,
1989.
Helen A. Harrison, “Drawing a Term Rich in Meaning”, New York Times, June 11, 1989.
Robert Mahoney, “New York in Review: Long Island University/CW Post”, ARTS,
November 1988. Michael Brenson, “Blue Angel: The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in
Postfeminist Sculpture”. New York Times, April 1, 1988.
William G. Doty, “Blue Angel”, Art Papers, Atlanta GA., March/April, 1988. James Nelson,
“Art Happenings: Blue Angel”,The Birmingham News, January 24, 1988.
Helen Harrison, “Dolls That Certainly Aren’t Toys”, New York Times, January 5, 1986.
Helen Harrison, “Outside the Gallery System”, New York Times, August 21, 1983.
Alice Gettesman & Nancy Lupone, “They Do Windows, Notable Displays: Public
Image”,Village Voice, May 31, 1983