Katherine Steichen Rosing

Katherine Steichen Rosing (b. Appleton, Wisconsin) explores environmental processes and phenomena in forests and watersheds through immersive installations and vividly-hued paintings. ​Her work has been exhibited in over 100 solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums internationally, including The Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois; Amos Eno Gallery, New York; The Arts Club, Washington, DC; James May Gallery, Milwaukee; The Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin; ARC Gallery, Chicago; Tomioka Museum, Tokyo; Saitama Modern Art Museum, Saitama, Japan. Rosing’s paintings are included in many public and private collections, and she is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the 2022 Forward Art Prize and the Madison Arts Commission/Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Fellowship. ​​Rosing has been awarded science-based artist residencies at the UW-Madison Department of Limnology’s Trout Lake Research Station and the St. Croix Watershed Research Station, sponsored by the Science Museum of Minnesota. The artist is a former member of ARC Gallery/Educational Foundation in Chicago, where she served as Vice-President and Invitational Gallery curator. She represented ARC Gallery and the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art as a delegate and panelist to the NGO Forum of the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing. Earning her MFA in painting and drawing from Northern Illinois University and a BFA from the University of Colorado-Denver, she taught studio art courses at colleges and universities in Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin, where she lives and works.