Born: 1985, Buffalo, New York
Resides:Auckland, Aotearoa | New Zealand
katherine@katherinerutecki.com
IG @katherine_rutecki_
Rutecki is an American-New Zealand artist living and working in Auckland and working in the intersection of conceptual art and craft or applied arts; with an emphasis in glass and lost wax casting techniques, ceramic and heritage plaster applications. Currently they are developing a body of work (fishergirl) within the language of traditional figure sculpture and focusing mainly on ceramic.
I’m currently working on a body of work I’m calling fisher-girl. They are figurative works, body parts that are broken off, inspired by old Victorian marble sculptures in Auckland parks that have undergone many repairs over the years. Some of them function as a fountain, evoking the connection or continuation of the body it’s dismembered from, and also references the functionality that public statues often have as as fountains. The work sometimes reference specific sculptures but are not copies but my own compositions using life models as reference.
My latest work is a wood-fired stoneware sculpture, Cross-Body Ride, and references The Wrestlers, a copy of a marble Roman 1st Century BCE copy of the lost 3rd century BCE Greek bronze sculpture. The Roman marble copy is attributed to Lysippus.
Education
BFA Sculpture New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University
2003-2007
MFA Glass Sculpture Southern Illinois University
2015-2018
Personal Mythologies
Public Record
Auckland, New Zealand
2025
Trap
Unperceived Existence
Gallery Shush
Leskovac, Serbia
2018
Between Space: Katherine Rutecki and Jon Witzky
Artspace 304
Carbondale, Illinois
2018
______ work
Vergette Gallery
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois
2016
Bright Masses
Masterworks Gallery
Auckland, New Zealand
2016
Admissions
Masterworks Gallery
Auckland, New Zealand
2014
Blue in Green
Vetri International
Seattle, Washington
2011
Objects by Women, curated by Yu Mei.
Gow Langsford Gallery.
Auckland, New Zealand
August 2026
Summer Exhibition, Confluence
Poison Creek Sculpture Project.
Queensbury, New Zealand
2025/2026
Pushing Parallels
The Arts House Trust, The Pah Homestead.
Auckland, New Zealand
2024
Tangerine Dream
Arts House Trust, The Pah Homestead
Auckland, New Zealand
2020-2021
Fierce: Women in Iron
Prairie Center for the Arts
Peoria, Illinois
2019
Concept 2019
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art |CICA Museum.
Gimpo, Republic of South Korea
2019
CAST Art + Object
Wayne Art Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018-2019
The Nature of Glass, curated by Traver Gallery
Schark Art Center
Everett, Washington
2011
With a Little Help From Our Friends:
Recent Accessions to the Decorative Arts
New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, Louisiana
2009
Outbreak!
Ebeltoft Glass Museum
Ebeltoft, Denmark
2008-2009
2004 SUNY Spring Exhibition
Gallery at the State University Plaza
Albany, New York
2004