Artist’s Statement
July 2026
Kathleen Korotzer lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I am an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work investigates the intersection between the sensual experience of the body and the family, geographical and historical structures we live within. Using soil, graphite, ink and water in large scale paintings and drawings; blown glass, cotton and scents in sculpture and an ongoing series of field audio recordings, the transformative potential of first hand encounter with materials is expressed. Shared systems of sound and scent transport us across boundaries, joining us through time and space.
Detail of Scents in The Poetics of the P*ssy and the Petticoat
Installation, Land/Soil, Water/Reservoir, Agriculture, Technology, The Domestic Ideal, The Animalic Body Beneath the Petticoat, 2026
Photo: Tony Favula
Marriage Ground, 72"x60", Acrylic, Georgia Red Clay and Ink on Canvas, 2026
Artist Bio
Kathleen Korotzer is an interdisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her interpretative multimedia work is rooted in the integration of sensory experience with systems of exchange between the female body, the gender expectations imposed by culture, and historical environments such as the rural south and Northern California.
Exhibition highlights of Korotzer’s work include: “Crossing Borders: We Are All Immigrants” at Westbeth Gallery in New York City,(2025); Invitational Group Show, Lamorinda Arts Council, Contra Costa County, CA (2025); Inaugural “Ripples” Juried Art show at UC Hastings School of Law, San Francisco, CA (2022); Selected for Mill Valley Art Commission Show, Mill Valley, CA (2022); Solo show “Open Ended” Lamorinda Arts Council, Wilder, CA (2021); “Sugar High” Juried show at Jen Tough Gallery Santa Fe, NM (2021); Juried show “Outside the Box” at Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA (2020); Solo show “Serenity” at San Francisco Women’s Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2020); Bold Expressions Jury Award at the Annual International Show, Northern California Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA (2020); and selected for Cover Art for the “Big Beautiful Book: Dislocations” Global Art Project show in Parabita and Lecce Italy, 2026.
Korotzer’s work is privately collected and is shown in corporate collections in Sausalito, California and San Francisco, California.
Korotzer’s published writing for and about other artists includes an ongoing series of artist profiles, Exhibit Catalog artist biography of Gert Mathiesen for the Henry Heerup Museum in Denmark, and Exhibit Catalog (copy held in the Library of Congress) and online magazine articles for Carl Heyward, founder of the Global Art Project.
Korotzer has contributed to philanthropic art initiatives supporting causes including The Alameda County Food Bank during COVID-19 and ongoing support for The LymeLight Foundation.
Korotzer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics and Journalism from the University of Georgia, a post baccalaureate degree in Visual Arts from U.C. Berkeley and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Photo: Olivia Rivera