ABOUT
Kathryn "Katya" Dennison (b.2002) is a traditional oil painter and drawer. Residing in Queens, NYC, Katya is currently studying at Grand Central Atelier and is a scholarship member of the Salmagundi Club.
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Katya received her Bachelors in Fine Arts (summa cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania (2023), in coordination with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2023). She focused her education into minors in Classical Studies, Art History (with a concentration in 16th-19th Century and Soviet art movements), and Cinema Studies.
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CV / EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
- Art Renewal Center 17th/18th Salon Exhibition, Sotheby's New York (2026)
- The Almenara Collection, Online Exhibition (2025)
- Art Renewal Center, Online Exhibition (2025)
- Hudson River Fellowship fellow & group show exhibitor (2025)
- GCA Spring Student Exhibition, Salmagundi Club (2025)
- Annual Member's Exhibition, Salmagundi Club (2025)
- Salmagundi Club, "Humans 24: The New York Figurative Exhibition", (2024)
- Salmagundi Club, "Annual Fall Auction" (2024)
- The Almenara Collection, Online Exhibition (2024)
- Willow Vermont Retreat, "Passages: The Future of Contemporary Realism" (2024)
- Salmagundi Club, "Genesis" (2023)
- PAFA Annual Student Exhibition (2023)
- Beekman & Mitchell, "After Pierre Matisse" (2022)
- Lightspace Gallery, "Portraits" Exhibition (Dec. 2021-Jan. 2022) (Remote)
- PAFA Annual Bacchanal Auction (2022)
AWARDS
- Portrait Society of America "Future Generation" Competition: 3rd Place Winner (2025)
- Almenara Collection Finalist (2025)
- Art Renewal Center Salon Finalist (2025)
- Art Renewal Center Salon Finalist (2024)
- Chairman's Choice Award, ARC (2024)
- 3rd Prize ("Jordan"), Annual Members' Exhibition, Salmagundi Club (2025)
- Honorable Mention, "Humans 24: The New York Figurative Exhibition" at Salmagundi Club (2024)
- The Almenara Collection Art Prize Youth Category Honorable Mention "Of Fathers and Sons" (2024)
- Scholarship Member at the Salmagundi Club (NYC), and on its Art Committee.
- Maguire Artistic Excellence Scholarship (full-tuition merit scholarship), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2020-23)
- The J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Travel Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2023)
- The Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2022)
- Franklin C. Watkins Memorial Grant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2022)
- National Society of Arts & Letters Winston Scholarship Grant (2019)
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PRESS
- Journal of The Portrait Society of America: The Art of the Portrait; "Future Generation" Winners (issue no.106)
- Fine Art Connoisseur "Three To Watch" (November/December 2025 issue)
- Almenara Art Prize Book (2024)
- Art Renewal Center 17th/18th Salon Book (International Realism) (2026)
- Philadelphia Inquirer "The Joy (and Sorrow) of Parenting" (2023)