Katherine Newbegin was born in Portland, Oregon in 1976 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in Photography from Hunter College in 2005 and her undergraduate degree in 1999 from Yale University where she studied English and Photography. During her studies she worked with Reiner Leist, Lois Conner, and Tod Papageorge. In Spring 2001, Katherine moved to New York City, where she has been living and working ever since. In 2008 she received a DAAD fellowship to live in Berlin, where she had been visiting and working off and on for years.
While living in Berlin, Revolver published a two-person catalogue of her work, which was edited by Sasa Hanten and includes essays by both Barbara Steffen and Sasa Hanten. Katherine has been showing her work at various galleries and institutions including: Dina4Projekte, Haas & Fischer, Galerie Open, Pinakothek der Moderne, Kunstverein Munich, and the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College. In December 2009, Katherine received an award from the Tiffany Foundation, which allowed her to travel to India where she photographed old Cinemas.
ART Karlsruhe, Solo Booth Exhibition, Karlsruhe, Germany with Galerie Open, Berlin
“Hotel Turist” Haas & Fischer, Zurich
“ Digression Walking through Space” Galerie Open, Berlin
“12 Responses to Berlin,” Curated by Axel Sommers and Lambert Hansgert, Kommunale Galerie Berlin
“Res Publica Res Privata,” Verein Zur Forderung von Kunst and Kultur, Berlin
“Vassar 150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, and Katherine Newbegin”
Curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (Catalogue)
"Crossing the Atlantic: 40 years of DAAD New York," curated by Ivan Gaete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
“Power to the People” Feature Inc., New York
“Young Artists Exhibition” Kunstverein, Munich
“Livingroom” Haas & Fischer, Zurich
VOLTA Basel, Switzerland with Haas & Fischer, Zurich
VOLTA New York, New York with Haas & Fischer, Zurich
Curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
“Art for AID” JCI Sotheby’s UNICEF Juried Exhibition, Amsterdam
Residency Program Runner-Up, Camera Club of New York, New York
Barbara Steffen, “Portraits as the Interior of the Psyche,” Revolver-Publishing, 2008
“Katherine Newbegin at Lesley Heller,” Gorky’s Granddaughter, March 2014
“Interview with the Artist” by Maria Calandra, Pencil in the Studio, July 2, 2012
“Interview with the Artist” by Stephanie Young, Vellum, Fall 2012
Critic’s Pick, Time Out New York, September 14, 2011
“Loeb Opens with Photography Exhibition of Contemporary Vassar” by Rachel Borne,
The Miscellany News, January 27, 2011
“Eng an der Stadt,” Neues Deustchland, November 16, 2012
“Berlin Sous L’Oeil du Photographie,” ParisBerlin, November 13, 2012
“Tuefelsberg I and II” Lettre International, October 10, 2009
“Tage Kunst” by Matthias Reichelt, Zitty Berlin, May 20, 2009
“Zuricher Kultur” Zuricher Zeitung, October 10, 2008
“Kurzkritik” by Karl Heinrich, Die Welt, July 4, 2008
“Utopian Mirage”, Artist Interview, Poughkeepsie Journal, May 25, 2007
“Menschenleer: Fotografie von Katherine Newbegin in der Galerie Open” by
Christiane Meixner, Berliner Morgenpost, October 11, 2006
FORUM, Camera Austria, Issue 96. December 2006
“Die Kulturzeit-Tipps in Kurze” 3sat, September 21, 2006
Adjunct -Instructor, Currently teaching 4 video classes for both Fall and Spring
Sophomore Video, BFA Photography Department
Digital Photography: Advanced Projects in Video, BFA Photography Department
Symposium in Video, BFA Photography Department
Part-time Lecturer, Fall Semester
Core Studio 3: Photo Context, BFA Photography Department