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Born (1955) in Lowell, MA; studied (1976-77) at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts, Oxford University, UK, and received a BFA (1978) from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Solo exhibitions include: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1999); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (1999); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (1999); Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN (2000); Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; Nielsen Gallery, Boston; Hosfelt Gallery, San Fransisco; and David Beitzel Gallery, New York.

Her work has also been featured at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA.

Collections include: the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.

She has received awards from the New England Foundation for the Arts; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation; the Ucross Foundation; and is a winner of the MFA Boston's Maud Morgan Prize.

Selected Bibliography

2004

“The Best of Boston 2004,” Alexandra Hall, Boston Magazine, August, p. 272

2003

“A Hot Scene’s Coolest Exhibits,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, Dec. 28

“Geishas Populate a Painted World of Wonder,” Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe,  Oct. 24

2001

“Keys to Two Personal Kingdoms,” Heather Joyner, Metro Pulse (Knoxville, TN), Jan. 4, p. 20

1999

“Huge Canvases Reflect a Painter’s Interior World,” Jack Fischer, San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 3, pp.1G, 12G

“Appropriations and Negotiations,” Alice Thorston, The Kansas City Star, Jan. 22, pp. 28-9

“Kemper Opens Painting Show,” Alice Thorston, The Kansas City Star, Jan. 10, p. 21

1998

“Gallery Watch,” by David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, Apr. 17

“Catherine McCarthy: Gathering Nectar,” by Marcy Freedman, SF Weekly, Apr. 1–7, p. 20

Artforum, Maria Porges, September, p. 160

1997

“Lowell-Born Artist Captures Inner Life,” Otto Peter Erbar, Lowell Sun, August