Faculty
Kat Kiernan is a photographer, curator, and writer in Brooklyn, NY. Often using herself as subject, her photographs explore mythologies of womanhood and and feelings of uncertainty. She curated numerous exhibitions as the Assistant Director of Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York, Director of Panopticon Gallery in Boston, and owner of The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia. From 2013 to 2021 Kat published and served as Editor-in-Chief of the photography magazine, Don’t Take Pictures. In 2015, she received the Griffin Museum’s Rising Star Award for her contributions to the photographic community. Kiernan’s writings on photography have been published in journals and blogs including Art New England Online, Feature Shoot, and Big, Red, and Shiny, as well as in books, including Agnieszka Sosnowska: Myth of a Woman (The National Museum of Iceland, 2019), and The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life (Intellect, 2017). She holds a BFA in photography from Lesley University College of Art and Design and an MA in Art Market Studies from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
