Catharine Czudej
Catharine Czudej (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1985) lives and works in New York, USA. She holds a BFA from from New York University, New York and a MFA from University of California, Los Angeles.
Czudej’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions, most recently at von ammon co, Washington DC; Benevento, Los Angeles; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne and Office Baroque, Brussels. Institutional presentations include Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen; Arsenal, Toronto and Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, among others.
UPCOMING
Catharine Czudej’s individual exhibition at Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, USA (2021)
Catharine Czudej, HOMEOWNER, installation view Von Ammon Co, Washington DC, 8 february - 21 march 2020
Catharine Czudej.
Constructing another approach to reality, mixed-media artist Catharine Czudej destabilizes and displaces common objects and conventions with a humorous approach. By inverting and manipulating the familiar, she makes sculptures, installations, paintings and films, with an often unnatural and absurd feel. Czudej’s work radiates playfulness by, for example, creating paintings from soap and sculpting furniture from crafted pretzels, finishing it with salt. The surreal narratives and joke-like associations in her work however reveal a critical analysis of the conventional and the dominant, questioning gender roles, the body, labour and power dynamics.
Catharine Czudej, Waterworks, 2019. Buckets, pumps, silicon, plastic, change, phone books, water. Dimensions variable
Catharine Czudej, Imagine all the People, 2019. Exhibition view Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
Catharine Czudej, TV 6, 2019. Polyurethane, 66 x 38 in
Catharine Czudej, Whiteboard 5, 2019. Aluminum, oil based marker, enamel, 72 x 48 in
Catharine Czudej, TV 1, 2019. Polyurethane, 66 x 38 in
Catharine Czudej, Imagine all the People, 2019. Exhibition view Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
Catharine Czudej, Not Books, installation view, Ginerva Gambino, Cologne, 2018
Catharine Czudej, Pine Barrens, installation view Tanya Bonakdar, New York, 2018
Catharine Ahearn, Pump 2, 2015. Cast iron, ca. 66 × 61 × 61 cm (26 × 24 × 24 in)
Catharine Czudej, installation view SHHHHH, The Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2016
Catharine Ahearn, Rust Face Fist, 2015. Cast iron, ca. 44 × 41 × 41 cm (17 × 16 1/8 × 16 1/8 in)
Catharine Ahearn, Soap Painting, 2016. Soap, 77,5 × 66 cm (30 1/2 × 26 in)
Catharine Ahearn, installation view NO SOAP RADIO, Peep-Hole, Milan, 2015
Catharine Ahearn, installation view Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2015