Kate McQuillen is a Brooklyn-based painter. She is represented by Massey Klein Gallery in New York. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Massey Klein Gallery and Deanna Evans Projects, (New York, NY), and group shows at Coherent Gallery (Brussels, Belgium) and Left Field Gallery (Los Osos, CA).
McQuillen was a founding member of Super Dutchess, an artist-run project space on the Lower East Side, where she curated shows including Samantha Bittman, Rhys Coren, Krista Franklin, and Robin Kang, among others. As a writer, she has published pieces on Alex Dodge,Elizabeth Atterbury,Chuck Webster and others. In addition to working for a number of years as a production printer in a Chicago gig-poster shop, she has worked as an assistant printer on fine art prints for Charline von Heyl and Swoon.
Writings about her work have been included in Art in Print, Hyperallergic, Printeresting, and The Chicago Reader. She has attended residencies in the U.S. and abroad, including Mass MoCA, Ox-Bow, and the Frans Masereel Centrum. She holds degrees from Massachusetts College of Art (BFA), and York University (MFA).