The University of Wisconsin Madison’s Chazen Museum is currently exhibiting a dozen photo-montage works from "The Real Guerrillas Portfolio", Kathy Grove’s collaboration with Petah Coyne in the exhibition How Much a Heart Can Hold. It will then travel to the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York and the Lowe Art Museum of Art in Miami, Florida.
Kathy studied printmaking first at RISD, then Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris, and with Warrington Colescott, Fran Myers, Bill Weege, Jack Damer and Walter Hamady at Wisconsin.
She moved to NYC in 1978. Once in New York, she mastered all the techniques of commercial analog photo retouching for advertising and fashion. She was then recruited to pioneer digital retouching at Site One, using Pixar Animation CPUs, working with a computer programmer writing proprietary code pre-Adobe Photoshop.
She has since pursued her own work by a mixture of traditional and digital means and has been sought out to work with by many other artists such as William Eggleston, Thomas Demand, Jane Hammond and others. She has shown at Pace-McGill, PPOW Gallery, in museums here and abroad. A group of her works were bought by the Metropolitan Museum to be the final room display in their monumental exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop.
