Kate Javens

Kate Javens was born in Missouri and spent her childhood in Japan, Mexico, and the bicoastal United States. She attended the Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Javens is a Golden Foundation Residency Fellow, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Painting Fellow, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts Disciplinary Winner in Painting and a three-time MacDowell Fellow. Her works are held in private and public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Palmer Museum of Art at the Pennsylvania State University, Telfair Museum of Art, the Blanden Art Museum and the Connecticut College Print Collection.  A monograph, Kate Javens, American Beasts, was published by the Blanden Museum and distributed by D.A.P., 2008.  Kate Javens lives and works in Harlem, New York City.