About

Katherine Boyce is an oil painter based in Minneapolis, where she began painting professionally in 2019. She received a BA in Politics and a Certificate of Visual Arts from Princeton University in 2011. Alongside her art practice, Boyce is a freelance writer. She has covered artists working to bring attention to climate change and environmentalism, as well as writing about the history of the arts in downtown Minneapolis and the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. Boyce also volunteers with the North Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, advocating for urban land use, transportation, waste, and water policies that protect the environment.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My body of work draws from my attention to the spaces we build, inhabit, and impact as humans. For someone who dislikes cars as much as I do, my cityscapes are full of them; many of my urban compositions are inescapably oriented around roads, reflecting the dominance of car infrastructure in the American landscape. But whether I am focused on the built or the natural environment, I can find as much beauty in headlights on pavement as sunlight on water. My paintings blend representational forms with semi-abstraction to evoke a sense of impermanence and memory; they are my way of recording my experience of being alive and being human in our beautiful but bewildering world.

EXHIBITIONS (OIL PAINTING)

2026
Annual Small Works, Studio Pintura, Minneapolis, MN

2025
The Shape of Absence, Jackson Flats, Minneapolis, MN
The Big Tiny, Kolman & Reeb Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Group show, Kickernick Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
People + Places, Bridgewater Lofts, Minneapolis, MN
Elemental, The Underground Art, Minneapolis, MN

2024
Extremely Minnesota, Robbin Gallery, Robbinsdale, MN
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Saint Paul, MN
2nd Annual “Open Wide!” Juried Exhibition, 119 North Weatherly Art Gallery

2023                            
Inhabit, solo show, Gallery at Cross, Hopkins MN

2022
This is normal., group show, North Suburban Center for the Arts, Fridley, MN

2021
Curious Entanglements, Bridgewater Lofts, Minneapolis, MN 
Group show, Rafter Apartments, Minneapolis, MN
Solo show, Industrious Coworking, Minneapolis, MN

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Princeton University Alumni Association: Commission of Original Painting for Cover of 2026 Reunions Schedule of Events
Four Seasons, Minneapolis MN

PAINTINGS ON LOAN

2021-2026          Prospect House, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ

AWARDS

2024
1st Place, Arts and Entertainment Story, Better Newspaper Contest, Minnesota Newspaper Association (MNA)
“Best of Show”, Extremely Minnesota, Robbin Gallery, Robbinsdale, MN 

PUBLISHED WRITING

2025
We Are Here to Stay: the California Building Story, Northeast Minneapolis Arts District (NE-AD) Arts District News, Northeaster Arts Insights
The Island of Misfit Toys, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights
Sarah Nassif and the Science of Creative Work, NE-AD
The Environmental Case for Urban Density, The Sierra Club North Star Blog

2024
Keep Quincy Weird, The Minnesota Star Tribune: Opinion
“Inside Looking Out,” an introspective showcase of Marc Norberg’s personal photography, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights
You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Wall, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights
Conversations with the City about the Arts Ecosystem, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights

2023
A Year Focused on Art & the Environmentalist Cause, NE-AD
For past recipients, the Vision Awards speak volumes about the community, NE-AD
Maggie Thompson exhibits in the Renwick Invitational in Washington, D.C., NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights
Brooke Bartholomew fuses environmentalism and feminism, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights
Claudia Poser and the sacredness of seeds, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights
Annie Hejny’s water paintings bring attention to the watershed, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights
Telling the stories of climate change through art, NE-AD, published as Connecting to the pain of climate change in Northeaster Arts Insights
Art and Nature at Silverwood Park, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights
The Ecology of Artmaking with Emily Donovan, NE-AD
Creative mothers can “have it all”, NE-AD, published as Art and motherhood can co-exist in Northeaster (main paper)
Christopher Selleck: Body//Weight opening March 18 in Mia’s U.S. Bank Gallery, NE-AD, Northeaster Arts Insights

2011
A Study Of Asylum Policy In The European Union, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

COLLABORATIONS

2024-2026
Writer, “ORIGINS: How the Minneapolis Arts Spotlight Shifted from Downtown to Northeast'“, Northeast Minneapolis Arts District Welcome Center Exhibit
Writer and Curator, “We Are Here to Stay: the California Building Story”, NE-AD Welcome Center Inaugural Exhibit

2022
Mississippi River Pearl, Art to Change the World & Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, Minneapolis MN

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

2024-present
Studio Pintura North Light Studio

2022-present             
Sierra Club North Star Chapter: Legislative Committee, Political Committee, Land Use and Transportation Team, Zero Waste Team

2019-present
Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association