ArtistKate Van DorenResidesUnited States
Mexico
WebsiteKatevandoren.comMediumOil
Pastel
Charcoal
Print Shopkatevandoren.com/shop

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EmailKatevandoren@gmail.com
Representing
Gallery
33 Contemporary Gallery
Miami, FL. USA
ThemesHuman rights 
The Human Condition
Nature
Positive Psychology
The power of Words
Mental Health
Healing after trauma
Elevating Voices of Women
Gender based violence of
women and the LGTQ community
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About the artist

Kate Van Doren (American, b.1978) explores human resiliency, connection, and the healing power of nature through realism paintings, drawings, and photography. 

Having worked as an art therapist in the mental health field for more than two decades, Kate offers a unique lens, cultivating connections with her inspirations to foster their stories about the human condition. She is deeply devoted to creating art that raises healing awareness in the lives of others.

After receiving an honors degree in Fine Art and Psychology from the University of Oregon (2002), Kate earned a double masters in Counseling and Art Therapy at Marylhurst University (2006). As a board-certified art therapist she has developed and administered art therapy programs for homeless at-risk youth, persons with severe and persistent mental illness, trauma survivors, the elderly, and hospice care.  She provides art therapy and art mentorships to artists and art therapy students around the world.  

She is the creator of the Healing Words Project, a photography and painting safe space workshop for women. The Project comprises stories and photos of over 2,ooo women recognizing their healing journeys. Healing Words Project has been recognized in multiple international publications, including Newsweek Español as an early intervention program to prevent violence against women. 

Kate’s Paintings, drawings and photographs are exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and Mexico, and have been acquired by private collections internationally. She has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, and PoetsArtistsMod Portrait and the Art Renewal Center among other publications. In 2022 she was an ARC and Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Finalist. She also earned 2nd Place in the international FIKVA award for Painters. Her work was selected for inclusion in the Peregrine Collection, a time capsule of digitized works of art and literature sent to the moon. Kate is based in San Miguel de Allende, México, where she devotes her time to her family, her art therapy practice, activism work, and her fine art studio.

Artwork Themes & Subject Matter

Kate Van Doren is best known for creating representational photo realistic imagery conveying the strength and vulnerability intrinsic to the human condition, integrating the healing capacity of nature. Kate’s body of work examines the elements of mental health and human rights through the power of positive words. Her current series is based on the Healing Words Project focusing on women’s empowering stories through their own words to raise awareness about gender based violence, healing and self reclamation.  

The Healing Words Project is a global collective comprised of photographs and paintings of over 2,000 women’s stories about healing and empowerment.  For the therapeutic project, women choose personal mantras about the strength of all women, which are then written on their bodies and photographed.  Paintings from the Healing Words Project are created using the reference photos combined with elements of the participants’ life stories.

Press

Kate Van Doren’s paintings have been featured in notable magazine, publications and online sources including 33 PA, She Writes Press, American Art Collector, Poets and Artist, New York Times, News Week En Español, Mexico News Daily, Brushes with Cancer, 10 Years Of Sharing, Connecting, And Healing, Realism Today artist Spotlight, Beautiful Bizarre Art Award finalist on-line publication, San Miguel Local Guide, Atención San Miguel and Ser Mujer San Miguel,  Mujer for International Women’s Month, Poet’s Artist Hashtag Art Magazine, Twist out Cancer Interview, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Poets Artists Goss 183, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, mod portrait 2021, Guia De Leonardo 2022, and ARC Art Renewal Center 15th International Annual ARC salon.

Upcoming Exhibitions

WhenExhibitionGallery
March
2024
Group exhibition: “Feminism”33 Contemporary Gallery
Miami, FL. USA
April
2024
Group exhibition: “Garden”33 Contemporary Gallery
Miami, FL. USA
September
2024
Group exhibition: “Love”33 Contemporary Gallery
Miami, FL. USA
October
2024
Group exhibition: “To be announce”Stirling dickenson Dist. Gallery
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
October
2024
Group exhibition: “Stillness”33 Contemporary Gallery
Miami, FL. USA
December
2024
Group exhibition:
“Context Miami/Art Basil”
Miami, FL. USA

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Education

2007 Double Master’s in Art and Counseling Art Therapy- Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR. USA

2003

BS Psychology-University of Oregon, OR. USA

BFA-University of Oregon, OR. USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

El Dia Sin Mujeres: Oraciòn Por Las Desaparecidas/ The Day Without Women: Honoring the Stolen, Fabrica Aurora Gallery, San Miguel de Allende Mexico.

2020

El Dia Sin Mujeres: Taking our Voices back International Women’s Day, Fabrica La Aurora Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Intersections, Bajio Gallery, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

The landscape, Bajio Gallery, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

2018

The Running, Jen Garay Art Gallery La Fabrics Aurora, SMA Mexico

2019

The Calling, Van Doren Studio Gallery, Fabrica La Aurora, Mexico

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Context Miami Art Fair, curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL. United States

Paint The Figure Now, curated by David A. Hummer, Waussaw Museum of Contemporary Art, WI. United States

Mujer, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Poets Artist, Miami, FL. United States

2022

Twist Out Cancer Brushes with Cancer, WNDR Museum, Chicago, United States

Fikva Foundation International, Fikva Award 

Just Nudes presented by 33 Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL. United States

Contemporary Realism, curated by Didi Menendez, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL. United States

Mujer, curated by Didi Menendez, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL. United States

2021

Unapologetically Man, curated by April Carter grant for Poets Artists, 33 Contemporary Gallery, (Through Thorns), Miami, FL. United States

Quest For The Modern Figure, curated by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL. United States

International Women’s Day, curated by Didi Menendez, 33 contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL. United States

ICONIC, curated by Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt and Steven Alan Benett, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, WI. United States

Facing The Universe: The Cosmos Within, curated by Menendez and D. Hummer, Wausau Museum of Contemporary art, (A Life Within Her), WI. United States.

Twist Out Cancer, Brushes with Cancer, Chicago, United States

2020

Twist Out Cancer, Brushes with Cancer, Chicago, United States

Twist Out Cancer, Brushes with Cancer, The Fairmont Gallery, Austin, TX. United States

Monthly Group Exhibitions, Fabrica Aurora Art Galleries, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

2019

Monthly Group Exhibitions, Fabrica Aurora Art Galleries, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

2018

Monthly Group Exhibitions, Fabrica Aurora Art Galleries, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

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