born in 1991 in West Texas.
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contact
Email: katharineannemarais@gmail.com​
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dance for Peter Halley's show at the Lever House on Park Ave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3FsoOdZZi0&t=6s
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=W= video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hos6F06KGI4
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Laila ballet for Leonard Cohen show at The Jewish Museum in New York
(dance by Katharine, music collaboration by Katharine and Brandon Graham, reading of the poem by John Rockwell, costume by Mark Anthony Gieringer. Performance adapted from Katharine's poem altar of flowers)​
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academic / teaching
workshop on observational drawing and aesthetic philosophies of landscape, Zilker Botanical Garden 2025
adjunct faculty, Lone Star College, 2D Design Fundamentals
teaching assistant, Columbia University, Painting 1
teaching assistant, Columbia University, Drawing 1
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random achievements
National Merit
perfect score on verbal SAT
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design & visualization work
3d modelling and rendering for sculptor Margo Sawyer
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artist assistantships / fabrication
Dwyer Kilcollin
Mitchell Syrop
Margo Sawyer
Becket Flannery
Jon Pylypchuk
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writing / El Toro's Roses
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notable public & private collections
Museo Nelimarkka
Simcor, LLC
MJ
Catherine and Sara
Abby P.
exhibitions / endeavors
Master Pieces, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, 2018
Earth painting featured by Omar at Omar's La Ranita for Art Week Dinner for Director of Pompidou Centre, 2018
Columbia First Year Show, 2017
Upper Canada Stretchers fellowship in Ontario; 2016
Exhibition in Wiarton, Fall 2016
Museo Nelimarkka: artist in residence, 2015
Haihatus, 2015
Paintings shown at Resident, New York, 2019- 2020
New Paintings, 1901 Canal St in Los Angeles, solo show, 2015
Small Smiles Records Showcase ii: group show, Los Angeles, 2012
Small Smile Records Showcase i: group show, Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, 2012
Charcoal Portraits, Art On Texas Avenue, Lubbock, TX, solo show, 2008
artist / writer in residence at Byrdcliffe, 2019
artist in residence, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, 2021
poetry, theory / criticism, & print publications
Adirondack Review Spring 2017
ISSUE 2021
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shared online dreamspace / book Aurora's Coma
https://auroraindreams.wixsite.com/aurorascoma
email for login and password to participate
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clippings
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Wiarton Echo 2016
http://www.wiartonecho.com/2016/09/27/visiting-artist-inspired-by-the-bruce-peninsula
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Upper Canada interview
http://www.ucsart.com/artist-bios/artist-sponsorship-texas-california-painter-kat-marais
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