Kathleen Greco Biography

• Kathleen Greco is a conceptual visual artist. Her interdisciplinary studio practice comprises works on paper, photography, and sculpture. Greco received her MFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from the Philadelphia College of Art. Applying knowledge from her industrial design background, she pairs relationships of materials and techniques to conceptual themes in her artwork with diverse mediums including graphite, charcoal, paper, fabric, and flower petals.

Her work has been featured in Artillery, Ginger, Hyperallergic, and the Washington Post. She has lectured at universities and colleges including, Lafayette College and the Royal College of Art London, England. Greco broadened her studio practice during a three week residency from the Civita Institute in the Etruscan hilltop town of Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy.

• 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.

• Ms. Greco’s career also comprises creating illustrations for magazine and advertising clients Including: Newsweek Magazine, Discover Magazine, Health Magazine, Cigna Corporation, Franklin Mint, RCA Corporation, and GlaxoSmithKline. She has been featured on HGTV, DIY Network, NBC10, and Japanese TV.

• Greco has written and produced more than twenty-five contemporary design, digital photography, typography, and art books with Hearst Books International, Rockport Publishers, and Watson Guptill Publications. She edited artist’s essays, curated contemporary artwork, and discussed artist's methodology. Titles include: DigitalFocus, Extreme Graphics, WebType, CyberPalette, and DigitalXposure edited by Kathleen (Ziegler) Greco. Many titles are housed in library collections in universities in the United States and internationally including the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, The New School, University of Oxford UK, and Yale University.

Photo: Luann Bice