Cate Pasquarelli received a BFA from the Cooper Union and studied at the Slade School of Art in London. She has exhibited her work at the Brooklyn Museum, Perrotin, The Shed, and Alexander Berggruen, all in New York, Steve Turner in Los Angeles, and The Bunker Artspace in West Palm Beach, among others. Her work is included in the collections of Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sarah Arison, as well as filmmakers Jim Jarmusch and Sara Driver. Pasquarelli has been awarded residencies at the Studios at MASS MoCA, the Church, The Wassaic Project and ISCP. She was a recipient of the Cooper Union Medici Award for excellence in art in 2020. Pasquarelli lives and works in New York City.
Portrait by Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Wassaic Project
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EDUCATION
2020 B.F.A. The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2018 The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
Semester Exchange
EXHIBITIONS
2026
Upcoming: NADA Miami, Main Projects, Miami, FL
“Baoying Huang, Alexandria Mento, Nina Malloy, Cate Pasquarelli,” Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
On New Romanticism, Slip House, New York, NY
Mitski: The Tansy House Exhibit, The Shed, New York, NY
2025
A Strange Familiar, Perrotin, New York, NY
Curated by Nick Doyle
Obstructed View, Main Projects, Richmond, VA
DayDream, The Berkshire Botanical Gardens, Stockbridge, MA
The Dallas Invitational, François Ghebaly, Dallas, TX
Movement, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2024
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Organized by Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli
2024 / 2025 Season, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
From the collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody
Art on Paper, Kim Schmidt Fine Art, New York, NY
May You Live the Rest of Your Life, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
Spring Break, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, NY
The Museum of Embellished History Presents Wassaic, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Installation on view at the Wassaic Project’s Summer Exhibition: Tall Shadows in Short Order
Kim Schmidt Fine Art at Furnace Art on Paper, Falls Village, CT
SPRING/BREAK Art Show: (#A9) Small Town (Spotlight booth), Los Angeles, Culver City, CA
3rd Annual Summer Group Exhibition, Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME
2023
SPRING/BREAK Art Show: (#1005) The Museum of Embellished History Presents New Bantam, New York, NY
Solo Booth curated by Sara Driver
SPRING/BREAK Secret Show, New York, NY
2022
No Misery Can Tell, No Word of Farewell, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2020
And the Roof Caved in Sympathetically, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Solo thesis exhibition (virtual)
Psychogeography, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2025
Style Weekly, “‘Obstructed View’ at Main Projects” by Sommer Browning
Interview Magazine, “Dillards, Dioramas, and Gay Cowboys: A Weekend at the Dallas Art Fair” by Emily Sandstrom
2024
Brooklyn Paper, “The Brooklyn Museum embraces some traditions, exchanges others for its 200th anniversary” by Kirstyn Brendlen
Hyperallergic, “These Are the 200+ Artists in the Brooklyn Museum’s Open-Call Show” by Rhea Nayyar
Mal Commune Mezzo Gaudio, limited edition Wassaic Project cookbook inspired by Pasquarelli’s work: recipes by James McDuffee
Dutchess Magazine, “Wassaic Project’s 2024 Summer Exhibition”
Gulf Coast Podcast, “Cate Pasquarelli,” an interview with Vanessa Golenia
2023
Image Journal, “Cate Pasquarelli’s Apocalyptic Miniatures,” an interview with theologist Aaron Rosen
Whitehot Magazine, “Big Secrets in a Tiny Town: The Art of Cate Pasquarelli” by Stephen Wozniak
ARTnews, “7 Standout Booths at Spring/Break’s ‘Wild Card’ New York Show” by Tessa Solomon
Whitewall, “The 11th SPRING/BREAK Art Show is a Wild Card” by Erica Silverman
Artnet, “‘It’s Like a Potluck’: The Spring Break Art Show Returns With Work by Regular Participants, Their Friends, and Their Friends’ Friends” by Sara Cascone
Art Observed, “AO On-Site - SPRING/BREAK Art Show at Atlantic Production Center, 625 Madison Avenue“ by D. Creahan
Office, “From SPRING/BREAK to Frieze” by Madison Bulnes
2022
Millerton News, “Touring the Surreal at the Wassaic Project’s Winter Show” by Elias Sorich
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2026 ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), Artist in Residence
2026 The Church, Artist in Residence
2025 The Studios at MASS MoCA, January Artist in Residence
2025 National Young Arts Foundation, Creative Microgrant
2024 Cow House Studios, Summer Artist in Residence
2023 The Wassaic Project, Programming Fellowship
2023 National Young Arts Foundation, Creative Microgrant
2022 The Wassaic Project, Summer Artist in Residence
2020 The Cooper Union Medici Award
awarded by the CU faculty for excellence in art
2016 National Young Arts Foundation Award
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Sarah Arison, Miami, FL
Alexander & Lilly Berggruen, New York, NY
Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York, NY
Sara Driver & Jim Jarmusch, New York, NY
Carlton DeWoody, Los Angeles, CA
Mahmood & Naznin Khimji, Dallas, TX
Eric & Rob Thomas-Suwall, Richmond, VA