ABOUT
My sculptures and the paintings that evolve from them depict environments that identify with their inhabitants, capturing their loneliness and deterioration in a seemingly abandoned place. They maintain a subtle human quality: a light on inside, a ladder, a rope. They hold ghosts of memories, conversations, and portraits within them. These are places inhabited by people with a sentimentality for heirlooms and a reverence for history, custom and tradition. Driven by fear, they have a tendency toward isolation and a resistance to change. They seek to preserve an idealized version of small town life, clinging to something that never truly existed as their world crumbles into something unrecognizable.
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Cate Pasquarelli received a BFA from the Cooper Union and studied at the Slade School of Art in London, UK. She has exhibited her work at the Brooklyn Museum, BravinLee Programs, Steve Turner, the Wassaic Project, Art on Paper, and SPRING/BREAK Art Fair in New York and Los Angeles. Her work is included in the collections of Beth Rudin DeWoody as well as filmmakers Jim Jarmusch and Sara Driver. Selected residencies and awards include the Cooper Union Medici Award for excellence in art, a Winter Residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA, and a Programming Fellowship at the Wassaic Project.
Pasquarelli currently lives and works between Brooklyn and Wassaic, NY.
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Portrait by Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Wassaic Project
EDUCATION
2020 B.F.A. The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2018 The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK.
Semester Exchange
EXHIBITIONS
2025
UPCOMING: Movement, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
February 8 – April 6, 2025, Opening February 8 from 5–7 PM
Group exhibition curated by ransome
2024
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY
October 4, 2024 – January 26, 2025
Group exhibition organized by Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli
2024 / 2025 Season, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
December 9, 2024 – May 1, 2025
Group exhibition from the collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody
Art on Paper, New York, NY
Exhibited with Kim Schmidt Fine Art
May You Live the Rest of Your Life, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
Miniature exhibition curated by Karin Bravin and John Lee
Spring Break, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, NY
Group exhibition curated by Steve Turner, Ambre Kelly, and Andrew Gori
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
Curated by Will Hutnick, Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino, and Jeff Barnett-Winsby
Kim Schmidt Fine Art at Furnace Art on Paper, Falls Village, CT
Pop up group exhibition curated by Kim Schmidt
SPRING/BREAK Art Show: (#A9) Small Town, Los Angeles, Culver City, CA
Spotlight booth curated by Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly
Showcase, Studio of Molly Gochman, New York, NY
Three person showcase with Mark Dion and Molly Gochman, curated by Eve Biddle
3rd Annual Summer Group Exhibition, Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME
Group exhibition curated by Aaron Rosen and Carolyn Rosen
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
Group show curated by Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly
2022
No Misery Can Tell, No Word of Farewell, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Group Exhibition curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, and Will Hutnick
2020
And the Roof Caved in Sympathetically, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Solo thesis exhibition
Psychogeography, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Group Sculpture Exhibition curated by Adriana Farmiga
2019
Possession of Myself, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, NY
Three person exhibition curated by Noah Becker
2016
YoungArts Artist Showcase, New York, NY
Two person exhibition at the home of art collector Agnes Gund
Chashama Pre-Gala Kickoff Art Auction, WTC, New York, NY
Group exhibition at the World Trade Center
YoungArts Final Exhibition, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Exhibition of the National YoungArts Foundation Award Winners
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
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
2025 The Studios at MASS MoCA, January Artist in Residence
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
2015 Scholastic Art and Writing Award
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York, NY
Sara Driver & Jim Jarmusch, New York, NY
Carlton DeWoody, Los Angeles, CA
Barry Fellman, Miami, FL