Hey hey, I’m Kathedral.

Katherine Grace (she/her) is a Black and Native American visual artist from Kansas City, Missouri. Her recent work moves beyond personal and collective memory to examine the emotional architecture of familial and platonic relationships. Focusing on how closeness and distance shape who we become. Working in oil and acrylic on canvas, she is currently developing multiple series that explore intimacy, separation, and the quiet tensions within the bonds we choose and inherit.

PUBLISHING

2020 - “Real Black: a spectrum of the Black present” | KC Studio Magazine | Author: Harold Smith

2020 - “These Kansas City Art Venues Are Highlighting the Work of Artists of Color” | KCUR 89.3 | Author: Luke X. Martin

2024 - “A palatial habitat for working artists” | KC Studio Magazine | Author: Brian McTavish


EDUCATION

2013 - University of Missouri - Columbia | Bachelor of Science in Architecture

2023 - Artist INC Cohort | Charlotte Street Foundation | Cohort


EXPERIENCE

2020 - “REAL BLACK: a spectrum of the Black” UMKC Gallery of Art | Kansas City, MO | Group Exhibition | Curator: Shaka Myrick

2024 - “We Are Enough” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center| Kansas City, MO | Group Exhibition | Curator: Harold Smith

2025 - Charlotte Street Foundation Art Boards | Kansas City, MO | Public Work - Billboards | Curator: Charlotte Street Foundation

2025 - “SOMA” | Big Car Collaborative | Indianapolis, IN | Group Exhibition | Curator: Yashi Davalos


GRANTS & AWARDS

2020 - University of Missouri - Columbia | Bachelor of Science | Architecture 2013