Kathe Burkhart on Louise Bourgeois

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Kathe Burkhart was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1958. She earned her BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. Since the early ’80s, Burkhart has consistently and candidly engaged gender roles, sexuality, celebrity, and language to, in her words, “articulate a radical female subject.” Ongoing from 1982, her Liz Taylor Series of large-scale, richly saturated paintings combines appropriated photographic images of the late actress Elizabeth Taylor with profane language, shattering both female stereotypes and conventions of representation. Recent solo exhibitions include LifeWork: The Kathe Burkhart Papers, Fales Special Collections Gallery, New York University; Kathe Burkhart, Cheim and Read, New York (2023); and Bloom and Doom, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (2025). Recent group presentations include Everyday, Someday and Other Stories, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022); Burning Down The House, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (2024); and Versatzstücke, Exile, Vienna (2025–26). Burkhart has published four books of fiction, including Between the Lines (2006) and Dudes (2014), as well as poetry and essays. She lives in Amsterdam and New York.