Kate Breakey”Big Tree, Birmingham, UK #2/20″ (2011) By Kate Breakey, Limited Edition Print2011

About the artist:
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs
including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers and animals in a series
called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas Press. Her other monographs
include, Painted Light, University of Texas in 2010, a career retrospective that encompasses a
quarter century of prolific image making.

Her collection of photograms, entitled ‘Las Sombras / The shadows’ was published by
University of Texas Press in October 2012. This series is a continuation of her lifetime
investigation of the natural world which in her own words is ‘brimming with fantastic
mysterious beautiful things.

Since 1980 her work has appeared in more than 120 one-person exhibitions and in over 60
group exhibitions. A native of South Australia, Kate moved to Austin, Texas in 1988. She
completed a Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Texas in 1991 where she also
taught photography in the Department of Art and Art History until 1997. Her collections
include the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, The
the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos, the Austin Museum of Art,
the Australian National Gallery and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, as well as
various private collections.

She has resided in the Tucson, Arizona for 25 years. She regularly teaches workshops
nationally and internationally.