Katherine Steichen Rosing (b. Appleton, Wisconsin) explores invisible forces in forests and watersheds through vividly hued paintings and immersive installations. She earned an MFA in painting and drawing from Northern Illinois University, a BFA from the University of Colorado-Denver, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rosing taught at universities and colleges in Madison and Chicago.
Her work has been exhibited in over one hundred solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries across the United States and abroad, including Tokyo, New York, and Chicago, and is included in public and private collections internationally. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the 2022 Forward Art Prize, the Madison Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and 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.
Rosing is a former member of ARC Gallery/Educational Foundation in Chicago, a non-profit woman-artist-run gallery, where she served as vice president and invitational gallery curator. In 1995, she represented ARC Gallery and the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art as a delegate to the NGO Forum of the United Nations 4thWorld Conference on Women as a panelist on Collaborating Women: Organizational Models for Artists.
